Singer Britney Spears has won the legal battle against her father, Jamie Spears. The pop singer had been under the legal guardianship of her father for 13 years, when the artist experienced mental problems that led a judge to grant her father’s guardianship, but this Wednesday that changed thanks to a court ruling in a Los Angeles court. Angels
Shortly after the court ruling was known, the singer published a video on her Instagram account, the only social network to which she has had access in recent years, in which she appears as a copilot of a plane, although she does not refer to the failure. «In heaven right now !!!! First time flying an airplane and first time in a jet plane, ”he wrote. In twenty minutes, the post gained more than 6,000 comments.
Jamie Spears’ suspension as Britney’s guardian takes effect immediately. He will be replaced by an interim guardian “in the best interest” of Britney Spears, Judge Brenda Penny said . The hearing that finally freed Britney from her father’s guardianship lasted two more than two hours: “Mr. Spears must surrender all his assets and powers as guardian,” Judge Penny ruled.
The provisional guardian will remain in charge of Britney’s guardianship until December 31 of this year. Although there are expectations that this agreement will be undone before that date arrives since a brief hearing is scheduled for next November 12.
Britney Spears’ father won the guardianship of his eldest daughter in 2008, after the singer suffered a series of psychotic episodes. In one of those episodes, the pop diva attacked a photographer at a gas station. From that dark age of the ‘celebrity’ are the famous images in which he appears with his head completely shaved. After those events, the judge handed him financial and personal control of his daughter.
“Violations of privacy”
Much has been written and filmed around the Britney Spears case. A documentary, produced by ‘The New York Times’ , released last Friday assures that the father had secretly installed surveillance devices in Britney’s room to monitor their private conversations.
Britney Spears’ attorney arriving in court with all the evidence for today’s hearing! #FreeBritney 💕 pic.twitter.com/QvItmohcXS
– maxi 🏳️🌈☀️ (@MaxiTassi) September 29, 2021
Britney’s defense attorney, Mathew Rosengart , said the documentary revealed “horrific and excessive violations of her adult daughter’s privacy” by Jamie Spears. Another documentary, this one produced by Netflix , ‘Britney vs. Spears’, states that the singer tried up to two times to hire a lawyer during the first years of her guardianship but was denied due to her father’s tight control.
In July, the 39-year-old ‘Baby one more time’ singer Britney was finally able to hire her own attorney and in August Jamie Spears himself filed a petition to have Britney’s guardianship overturned entirely to avoid, say the Defenders of the singer, that someone else take control of Britney’s successful economy.
Many celebrities have been implicated in the Britney Spears case, under the hashtag #FreeBritney. One of the most recognized is the singer Cher who has celebrated on Twitter very effusively the ruling in favor of Spears: “I have spoken and prayed about this for four years. I’m fascinated, “the Las Vegas diva par excellence wrote on her social networks.
Thank God✨🌟✨
I’ve Talked & 🙏🏻🙏🏻‘d About This 4 YEARS👏🏼.
IM MORE THAN THRILLED 4 HER🎂‼️
BLESS OUR SUPER 🌟#FREEBRITNEY— Cher (@cher) September 29, 2021
«Free Britney! Congratulations !!!!!!!!! ”, wrote her fiancé, Sam Asghari , also on Instagram.
In Los Angeles, a group of fans closed a street near the court to demonstrate in favor of the singer. “Free Britney” could be read on various banners. Others arrived early to get a seat in the room where the audience was held, which was completely full. Fans of the American singer have accused her father of benefiting financially from guardianship, while lawyers have said that her father “never lived up to it”, citing in his petition allegations of alleged alcoholism and “the trauma that he suffered. it caused his daughter from her childhood ».
“A Kafkaesque Nightmare”
This Wednesday, attorneys for Jamie Spears presented their objections to the end of the guardianship. They attacked the New York Times for the documentary and challenged Britney’s emotional statement at the previous hearing where she referred to the 2008 deal as “abusive.” “There is not a single thread of evidence to support the suspension,” said Vivian Thoreen, a lawyer for Britney’s father, via video call.
Thoreen questioned whether Britney’s father would be replaced by Zabel, “a stranger,” and asked to end the guardianship completely. But Rosengart, the singer’s attorney, insisted this was simply a tactic since both parties knew it was impossible for the court to “snap their fingers” and end the entire guardianship. The lawyer said Jamie Spears feared suspension because it could force him to present “evidence of his corruption and much worse.” The immediate suspension “is what my client Britney Spears, a victim of this man not only during the last decade but since her childhood, is what she wants and deserves, ” he said. “Please listen to my client’s request” to “end this Kafkaesque nightmare.”
