LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Britney Spears’ lawyer accused her father of squandering her riches, disclosing new information about how Jamie Spears’ supervision of her conservatorship allegedly allowed him and his cronies to benefit themselves.
Jamie Spears’ request that the 40-year-old pop star continue to pay his legal bills even though she is no longer in a conservatorship was denied on Tuesday in a court file that detailed years of alleged financial malfeasance and abuse. Spears’ lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, says that Jamie Spears took more than $6 million from his daughter’s inheritance, used his status as her conservator to advance his own profession as a chef, and isolated the singer by silencing and eliminating people who disagreed with him or the court-ordered arrangement.
During a tense court session on Wednesday, Rosengart stated that he is now seeking more information about the alleged spying, including whether Jamie Spears viewed his daughter’s communications with her then-lawyer and then-therapist.
Rosengart told the judge, “These are significant, serious, credible charges.”
A 27-page declaration from former FBI special agent Sherine Ebadi, now a forensic investigator at Kroll Associates Inc., was among the documents filed this week, and it corroborated, among other things, the alarming allegations made by the New York Times’ Controlling Britney Spears documentary that Jamie Spears monitored all communication on his daughter’s phone and instructed her security team to place an audio recorder in her bedroom. According to the records, Britney Spears’ sexual interests, her mother Lynne Spears, and even her massage therapist were all targeted for surveillance.
The new information comes as Judge Brenda Penny of the Los Angeles County Superior Court tries to handle pending demands for payment of the attorneys who represented Spears and her conservators, as well as reports detailing the money that moved into and out of her estate in 2019 and beyond.
Penny authorised a motion on Wednesday to pay Spears’ former conservator Jodi Montgomery and her attorneys, who managed the singer’s personal affairs for two years. Jamie Spears’ appeal to have his new counsel, Alex Weingarten, who charges $1,200 an hour, paid for by his daughter’s estate was also heard by the judge.
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