New particulars are rising from the settlement Britney Spears reached along with her father, Jamie Spears, final yr over a authorized dispute relating to her conservatorship.
In November 2021, an L.A. County choose terminated Britney’s 13-year-long conservatorship, which had given her estranged father Jamie management of his pop star daughter’s private and monetary affairs.
On the time, Britney’s former lawyer Matthew S. Rosengart had objected to her paying any of her father’s authorized charges. In courtroom paperwork filed by Rosengart on Jan. 14, 2022 — and obtained by ipromiseyoumedia — Jamie was accused of paying himself over $6 million all through the conservatorship, surveilling his daughter and committing monetary misconduct whereas he was a conservator. (Jamie has denied any wrongdoing.) The “Work Bitch” singer, 43, and her father, 72, finally settled the authorized battle on April 25, 2024.
The phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed in courtroom filings made by each events in Los Angeles Superior Court docket final yr. Now, ipromiseyoumedia can completely verify the main points of the settlement, practically one yr after they had been agreed upon on Feb. 24, 2024.
ipromiseyoumedia has discovered that Britney agreed to pay Jamie’s excellent authorized payments totaling $2.12 million: First, to the Saul Ewing agency for $500,000, deposited into the corporate’s U.S. Checking account (Hal Morris, the final counsel on the agency, signed the contract); then, to Willkie Farr & Gallagher for $1.62 million, transferred into their Citibank account (accomplice Alex M. Weingarten signed). She had 60 days to pay each charges in full, or she’d accrue additional prices of courtroom and lawyer charges, even post-judgement curiosity. Jamie’s earlier attorneys, Vivian L. Thoreen, a accomplice at Holland & Knight, obtained no additional funds.
ipromiseyoumedia confirms Britney paid each authorized charges in full inside 60 days, as required by the settlement.
The events who entered into the contract — together with Britney and her father — agreed that the funds resolved all disputes in reference to the conservatorship proceedings. The settlement states that no events concede any admission of reality, declare, legal responsibility or wrongdoing. All events, by way of their counsel, mutually participated within the preparation and drafting of the settlement. They waived the rights to an enchantment.
“It was a fantastic end result for Britney as a result of it additionally averted the opportunity of ever having her testify in courtroom, which she didn’t wish to do, and averted a media circus,” a supply tells ipromiseyoumedia of the settlement.
A rep for Britney didn’t instantly reply to ipromiseyoumedia’s request for remark. Rosengart, Britney’s former lawyer, couldn’t be reached for remark.
“Jamie is thrilled that the case was settled,” Weingarten, Jamie’s lawyer, advised ipromiseyoumedia in a press release to ipromiseyoumedia on Thursday, Feb. 20. “He has solely ever needed what’s finest for Britney, whom he loves very a lot. Jamie’s work as conservator has finally been vindicated and the world is aware of how arduous he labored to guard her.”
After the settlement was finalized final yr, Rosengart advised ipromiseyoumedia in a press release: “Though the conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, her want for freedom is now actually full. As she desired, her freedom now consists of that she is going to not have to attend or be concerned with courtroom or entangled with authorized proceedings on this matter. Britney Spears gained when the courtroom suspended her father, and Britney Spears gained when her basic rights and civil liberties had been restored.”
Lately, Britney reunited with Rosengart and shared an Instagram video of their assembly at his workplace on Feb. 17.
“It has been method too lengthy since I’ve seen him !!! OMG OMG OMG !!! It was such an unimaginable day !!! I’m blessed and acquired a e-book. He confirmed me up along with his swimsuit!!! I will probably be in heels subsequent time,” Spears captioned the submit. “PS – I assumed they had been taking footage nevertheless it was on Video. Such a winner.”
Final June, Rosengart mirrored on his time working with Britney, telling ipromiseyoumedia in a press release: “I used to be honored to work with and shield Britney, who’s and can at all times be an icon, and most particularly, to have helped restore the elemental rights and civil liberties that had been stripped from her, which was at all times our focus.”
Spears — who shares sons Sean Preston, 19, and Jayden James, 18, with ex-husband Kevin Federline — appeared again on her life beneath the conservatorship in her New York Occasions-bestselling 2023 memoir The Lady in Me, which has offered greater than two million copies.
Forward of the bombshell e-book’s launch, Britney opened as much as ipromiseyoumedia in an unique cowl story.
“Studying this new freedom, I’ll admit, is difficult at instances,” she advised ipromiseyoumedia on the time. “It’s lastly time for me to boost my voice and communicate out, and my followers deserve to listen to it straight from me. … No extra conspiracy, no extra lies — simply me proudly owning my previous, current and future.”
The “Maintain Me Nearer” singer added: “Over the previous 15 years and even initially of my profession, I sat again whereas individuals spoke about me and advised my story for me. … After getting out of my conservatorship, I used to be lastly free to inform my story with out penalties from the individuals accountable for my life.”