Britney Spears has shockingly settled her years-long legal battle with dad Jamie Spears and will end up footing his over $2million legal bills while getting nothing in the process.
The 41-year-old pop star – who recently showed off her sculpted physique – quietly resolved her legal battle with her 71-year-old father according to TMZ Friday and the singer is said to be furious over the matter.
According to the site, Jamie will not be paying a cent and his Toxic hitmaker daughter will be paying for his legal bills in what is said to be a stunning turn of events.
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Britney Spears has shockingly settled her years-long legal battle with dad Jamie Spears and will end up footing his over $2million legal bills while getting nothing in the process according to a report from TMZ on Friday
Insiders for TMZ have claimed that Britney is said to be furious about the quiet settlement.
The publication reports that their sources had said her lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, had assured her that she had a solid case.
However she is now going to have to pay her father Jamie’s legal bills which are said to amount to more than $2million.
TMZ also reports that Britney has paid her lawyer Rosengart more than a whopping $4million and is in an even bigger financial hole from the case after the settlement.
Back in February, it seemed like their legal battle was still in it for the long haul in the aftermath of her conservatorship is still continuing years after the arrangement was ended in 2021 — and Jamie claimed at the time that it was Britney’s doing in new documents.
Jamie wrote in legal filings obtained Wednesday, February 7 by The Blast that his daughter has been using stall tactics to draw out the case.
He urged the judge overseeing the case not to grant a stay in the case, which could lead to a continuance that would postpone trial start until a later date.
Britney — who claimed that she was forced to give up her ‘freedom’ in order to see her children while under the conservatorship — is about to begin mediation sessions with her father later this month, and he suggests she is trying to stall the until after the mediation, even though he says it will likely be fruitless.
The 41-year-old pop star – who recently showed off her sculpted physique – quietly resolved her legal battle with her 71-year-old father and the singer is said to be furious over the matter
The publication reports that their sources had said her lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, had assured her that she had a solid case. TMZ also reports that Britney has paid her lawyer Rosengart more than a whopping $4million and is in an even bigger financial hole from the case after the settlement; Rosengart is seen in LA back in September 2021
‘There is no reason to stay any portion of the case (as the Court acknowledged at the January 5, 2024 hearing) and there is certainly no basis for staying briefing or any other activity that in any way relates to Jamie’s pending summary judgment motion set for hearing on April 12, 2024,’ Spears’ legal team wrote in their latest filing.
He indicated that he and Britney were unlikely to resolve their issues after spending more than two years without coming to an agreement.
‘The parties have had months (indeed, years) to discuss settlement. They have not settled. Imposing a stay simply because there is a February 23, 2024 meditation seems certain to result in a trial continuance should the parties not settle at mediation,’ he continued.
The petition also emphasizes that the former conservator to Britney filed his Petition for Order Allowing and Approving Payment of Compensation to Conservator and Attorneys for Conservative and Reimbursement of Costs over nearly three years ago in March of 2021.
The petition was a request for Britney to pay his legal fees over the conservatorship battle, but so far the Toxic singer and her attorney Mathew Rosengart have resisted paying Jamie’s expenses.
His petition is expected to be resolved when the trial begins in June of this year.
Spears’ team continued in the filing by accusing Britney of ‘consistently tr[ying] to delay’ the start of the trial.
They appeared to suggest that her legal team was filing frivolous motions, only to not follow through when the time came.
Back in February Jamie urged a judge overseeing the case of his daughter Britney’s since-ended conservatorship not to delay the proceedings, according to new filings obtained Wednesday, February 7 by The Blast; seen in 2008
He accused Britney, 41, of requesting a stay for mediation scheduled for later in February, which he said is unlikely to result in a settlement
‘The parties have had months (indeed, years) to discuss settlement. They have not settled,’ he continued, claiming that Britney’s tactics were designed to delay the start of the trial; seen in 2012 with ex-wife Lynne Spears
Jamie previously petitioned for Britney to cover his legal fees in March of 2021, but the have so far not resolved the request nearly three years later; seen in 2019 in LA
‘Britney wasted over two years with motion practice regarding the threatened deposition of non-party Robin Greenhill, had the deposition set for January 29, 2024, and unilaterally canceled the deposition the Friday afternoon before the deposition (apparently concluding that the deposition was pointless),’ the filing continued.
‘The Court cautioned the parties that it will not continue trial. The parties have already spent one month waiting for meditation and waiting for rulings on the outstanding discovery disputes,’ the documents read.
‘Every day is critical to ensure the case continues to progress and is ready for trial without the need for a continuance. Accordingly, Jamie requests the Court does not stay this action pending the upcoming mediation and maintains the firm trial dates.’
Although Jamie may want to simply wrap up the trial since the conservatorship has already been ended for years now, he also has financial incentives to prevent delays, as his bills to expensive legal counsel will increase the longer the proceedings continue.
That may hit him particularly hard, as Spears and Rosengart have resisted his requests to have her cover his legal fees.
In a statement she gave in court shortly before her conservatorship ended, Britney accused the arrangement of preventing her from marrying her then-boyfriend Sam Asghari.
Britney also said she was denied simple acts of independence, such as being allowed to drive her own car.
In a more shocking moment, she even claimed that she had not been allowed to have her IUD removed.
‘Every day is critical to ensure the case continues to progress and is ready for trial without the need for a continuance. Accordingly, Jamie requests the Court does not stay this action pending the upcoming mediation and maintains the firm trial dates,’ his filing continued
Britney has accused her father of getting rich off her conservatorship while forcing her to work at an untenable pace
She claimed in court in 2021 that she wasn’t allowed to marry her then-boyfriend Sam Asghari and that the arrangement prevented her from having an IUD removed so that she could get pregnant
Britney also accused her mother Lynne Spears and sister Jamie Lynn of living off the conservatorship, though she has mended her relationship with them in the subsequent years; seen in a recent Instagram
‘I want to be able to get married and have a baby,’ she said during a conservatorship hearing in 2021. ‘I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby, I have an IUD inside of myself right now so I don’t get pregnant.’
In her memoir The Woman In Me, which was released in October of last year, Spears shared claims that her father called her ‘fat’ and accused him and his associates of ‘having control over my body and my money’ for 13 years, which made her ‘feel sick.’
She has also accused her father of getting rich from her wealth.
She also accused her mother Lynne Spears and her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears of living off the conservatorship, though she has somewhat mended her relationship with them in the subsequent years.
