Britney Spears has settled an impressive authorized dispute along with her father that arose following the termination of the pop star’s 13-year conservatorship in 2021, Billboard has confirmed. Phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed.
“It has been our honor and privilege to characterize, defend, and defend Britney Spears,” mentioned Spears’ legal professional, Mathew Rosengart, in an announcement despatched to Billboard. “Though the conservatorship was terminated in November, 2021, her want for freedom is now really full. As she desired, her freedom now contains that she is going to not have to attend or be concerned with courtroom or entangled with authorized proceedings on this matter.”
A authorized scuffle ensued within the wake of the conservatorship’s dissolution in November 2021, when Rosengart vowed to research alleged misconduct by Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, in the course of the years he served as his daughter’s conservator — together with claims that he took tens of millions from her property, tried to regulate her with medicine and denied her the liberty to take away a contraception gadget.
Battle additionally arose over Jamie’s request in December 2021 that Britney’s property proceed paying his authorized charges, arguing that the conservatorship’s termination didn’t finish his ongoing “fiduciary obligations” and that he might face “private chapter and spoil” if his request was turned down. Rosengart responded by calling the request “not solely legally meritless, however an abomination.”
Britney was positioned in a conservatorship managed by her father in 2008 following a string of public breakdowns. The authorized association got here underneath scrutiny starting in 2019, when a pair of documentaries and a motion dubbed #FreeBritney launched by the famous person’s followers went viral, finally main Britney to talk out on her personal behalf in public courtroom testimony.
Attorneys for Jamie Spears didn’t instantly reply to Billboard‘s request for remark.
You’ll be able to learn Rosengart’s full assertion beneath.
It has been our honor and privilege to characterize, defend, and defend Britney Spears.
Though the conservatorship was terminated in November, 2021, her want for freedom is now really full. As she desired, her freedom now contains that she is going to not have to attend or be concerned with courtroom or entangled with authorized proceedings on this matter.
Britney Spears received when the courtroom suspended her father, and Britney Spears received when her elementary rights and civil liberties had been restored.
Since acquiring her freedom in late 2021, Britney Spears has achieved exceptional success on a number of fronts, together with her August, 2022 collaboration with Sir Elton John on the smash hit Maintain Me Nearer (which debuted at primary on the Billboard Sizzling Dance/Digital Songs chart and have become her twenty fourth top-ten single), adopted by her landmark e-book cope with Simon & Schuster for her memoir The Girl in Me, a direct NY Occasions #1 bestseller, which obtained common, breathtaking reward and wouldn’t have been attainable in the course of the conservatorship.
We repeat our gratification for being able to assist restore the civil rights and liberties of Britney Spears and the consideration and privilege it has been to serve and defend Ms. Spears and acquire her objectives in resolving numerous authorized issues pursuant to her considerate and smart instruction and requests, which as soon as once more are to her credit score.
