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Britney's Wild Ways Score Big Payday

Posted Jan 8th 2007 6:24PM by TMZ Staff

Despite ending 2006 early and in dubious style at PURE nightclub in Las Vegas, Britney Spears will be getting her hefty paycheck from the club, despite rumors to the contrary.

Reports this morning suggested that Brit's woozy exit from Pure may have been precipitated by distinctly unflattering heckling from the crowd , and that because of her premature departure, she would not be getting her reported $400,000 appearance fee.

However, in a statement from PURE's publicist, by way of our friends at SpyOnVegas, the club's rep Kate Turner says, "The crowd LOVED Britney and they cheered her on everywhere she went. She had a great time and we were delighted with her appearance at the club and cannot wait to have her back. She is always welcome at PURE and we'd love to have Britney back next year for New Year's Eve."

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1. No one likes Britney anymore. The only thing she's known for is being a media whore. She has no talent and her nose is really wide and weird looking now. She'll ALWAYS be a slut in America's eyes. Always.

Posted at 9:19PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Bob

2. WOW ! I can pass out drunk every weekend -- does that mean i'm worth at least $ 100,000 . What if Britney puked on someone -- would PURE have to pay her more for that ? And how about that perv who felt on her ass as she layed passed out on the floor -- maybe he should get a cut of that money ? God bless Holyweird ! Dickheads .

Posted at 6:36PM on Jan 8th 2007 by nASTY bOIL

3. Why not just spend 400,000 on European hookers...this way everyone in the crowd gets laid!

Britney is worth closer to 40 bucks.

Posted at 9:39PM on Jan 8th 2007 by NinjaDude

4. What is it about her lately and her hair? Is it falling out or what? Every time I see a photo of her, it looks like she has a receding hairline! Has she now colored it so much that it's falling out? Sometimes that can happen...happened to my sister in law.

Posted at 1:52PM on Jan 9th 2007 by BD

5. So for the 45 minutes she spent conscious, she gets a check? Sounds like DATE RAPE TO ME! Except the deal is even SWEETER!

Posted at 10:08PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Peter Coffin

6. Good Lord she's looking really ragged out isn't she? I just am not foreseeing a come back for her at this point. She nneds to hire a stylist, image consultant & a makeup artist STAT. She's still young she shouldn't look this run down.

Posted at 6:52PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Mrs. Scott

7. Good Lord she is looking pretty ragged out these days, she's on a downward spiral straight to the gutter. She's talking comeback but I cant foresee this happenng if she doesn't hire an image consultant, stylist & makeup artist STAT. What a shame she was really cute before the kids & her sham of a marriage.

Posted at 6:55PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Mrs. Scott

8. Britney I'm tired of seeing your little doll face.Record an album or do something useful or please get f*** out of the limelight.I hope a real player gets ahold of you and breaks it off your ass the proper way,and since you like to get high he'll turn you on to a dose of the real sh*t. Then you'll turn tricks whether you want to or not,nevermind the 50 million.

Posted at 10:01PM on Jan 8th 2007 by SF roller

9. Why is she so ugly? She should use her money on her face!

Posted at 9:19AM on Jan 9th 2007 by ALL AMERICAN GIRL

10. well why dont you go get famous and then you can pass out or get tired and that way when you get paid $400,000 for one night... i would really like to see you b*tch about it then! yeahh thats what i thought....

Posted at 6:58PM on Jan 8th 2007 by ....

11. are there any pictures anymore of Britney where she doesn't look like a dork?

Posted at 9:03PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Kandace

12. HEY LOOSER Did you forget you have 2 kids at home you should call Nicole Kidmen

Posted at 7:10PM on Jan 8th 2007 by L.S

13. This is unbelievable; she is in serious need of professional help, as are the payors of that 400k check.

Posted at 7:15PM on Jan 8th 2007 by zans

14. The true history of Britney Spears, and to the Britney fans who have been posting on some websites lately that she is worth $300 million. She is NOT worth $300 million. The following is the true history of her career, money and downfall. The most she ever had was about $150 million which Forbes magazine and some other publications talked about, and they probably pushed it up a bit for PR reasons.

She has not put out a new CD in years and has not toured in some time. She has been spending a lot of it for the last few years, K-Fed (cars, recording his CD, crating his record company, Federline Records, etc), limos, houses, lawsuits, lawyers, managers etc.

She also lost the lawsuit that she filed against the ten insurance companies that she was trying to get payment from. She wanted them to pay her when she canceled in the middle of her last tour to cover the major losses. She ended up having to pay major amounts of money for damages, canceled arenas, promoters, investors etc. (in the millions). She was also loosing a lot of money on her last tour since about half of the arenas were about half full, a quarter about a quarter full, and only about a quarter of the shows were full. This compared to her first few tours where every arena was full at the height of her fame.

If you don't remember go back and take a look at the records (and not the PR her publicists put out). She was also, already becoming unstable at that time. She did not show for two of the shows when the fans were already in their seats for the onyx tour. No reason was given to the fans, and they were understandably upset. Then she came off stage crying at some of the European shows because they were less than half full.

Then she cancelled in the middle of the tour because of her knee. She also had her knee operated on in 1999. So that is two times her knee has been a problem for her tours. Since her shows are based on dancing and putting on a big show while she lip-synchs, that makes her knee a big problem to the record companies, promoters, and investors.

They are not willing to back her at this time since she is so erratic and unprofessional from her track history, and especially at present. She made one movie that she starred in, Crossroads, and has not been in one since as a lead. In fact she has been turned down many times by Hollywood and has not gotten a starring role in over five years now, and won’t.

She was already in decline by the third CD “Britney” which sold less then half of what “BOMT” did within the same amount of time from its release. Her first CD “BOMT” sold about 11.5 million US when it came out.

OIDIA sold about 7.5 million within the same amount of time from its release.

Her third CD “Britney” sold about 3.5 million in the same amount of time from its release. Her fourth CD “ITZ” sold slightly above 2 million in the same amount of time from its release. Her “Best Hits CD” although not a studio CD, sold about 1 million in the same amount of time from its release.

Not once did her statistics go up, it was a straight downward trend. If you look at it, she did her best when she had a clean and sweet image, on stage, on her CD’s, The more she pushes the sex/slut image, and now the trailer trash image, instead of the sweet girl image of the beginning of her career, the less CD’s she sells.

She does not seem to understand this. She has now gone down to crotch shots, and a real dirty image in order to get attention and try to revive her career. That is a real shame since all she had to do at the beginning of her career is show up and be sweet. She sold millions, and millions loved her back then, she had integrity, or at least it looked like it back then.

From a business point of view she should have not gone the way she did. It does not work and has ruined her career. She now has only a few fans that are left that are interested in her for skanky reasons, tabloid fodder, and partying, and not for the beautiful Pop Star image that she had some years ago that so many loved. In actuality, the Britney we are now seeing IS the real Britney. The industry is not there to put her together like they used to since she does not sell like she used too (not even close).

She is now falling apart at the seams, and has been for some time: 55 hour marriages, marriage to K-Fed, child accidents, erratic behavior, canceled tours, child neglect, law suits, constant bad decisions, crazy partying, crotch shots on purpose (three different times), disrespecting her fans and the industry she is supposed to work in, psychiatric drugs while drinking alcohol, and drinking and driving (which can kill someone, including her) etc.

Her perfume is not doing well now because of her image. Check the latest figures. Even Elizabeth Arden made comments in one of their recent bulletins. They have been cutting back on it and only releasing smaller amounts. There are also rumors that Elizabeth Arden are thinking of suing her because she has not been keeping up her part of the deal, and has not done the amount of advertising she was supposed to do for them. She also has not kept up the “far better image” of herself that she had years ago which DOES help sell the products she backs.

Her trailer trash image has done major harm to her businesses (perfume, CD’s, tours, any possible movie career, etc.). She IS a business and needs to act like it with her image. Her image is her business. Major magazines are not putting her on their covers all the time anymore like they used to, which paid her big money. Now she is only on the covers of the tabloids, which do not pay her at all. It also damages her career a lot, and her image, to be in the tabs all the time, and not in major paying magazines (who make her look good).

She should have done Playboy if she wanted to show the world her privates. They would have made her look good and paid her a lot of money Instead she did it for free to get attention which did a lot more damage to her image then any kind of “help” for her comeback. With the C-section showing and rashes further down (check the large images on the net, not the small ones where you can’t see); it looked really gross and desperate, and IS a turn off. And being with Hilton only made it worse.

She does not have any professionalism to her tactics and it hurts her image and business a lot. Everyone looks at a train wreck, but that does not mean anyone is going to pay cash to buy it.

She gets involved in a lot of lawsuits (which she creates), and has bad business dealings a lot also. Her restaurant NYLA went broke. She was sued by NIKE some years back and lost. She was sued by a t-shirt company (the only one she won). She sued US magazine and lost and others she has been in. Suing, lawyers, and court cases cost a huge amount of money.

She does not have a large income at this time. She has been spending far more in the last three years then she has brought in. If you check all of her divorce papers, other filings, and documents, she only has about $32 million left. She has gone from $150 million about four years ago down to $32 million. That is a loss of $118 million in four years.

She is not acting smart, and I am sure a lot of people are taking her money all the time, not just K-Fed, since she is always partying and going crazy. When a star falls, it is not uncommon for everyone to take a part of the pie (their money).
Look at Michael jackson, Elvis, and many others.

She may even loose her kids, which is up to the judge and not her fans or their opinions. I work in the legal profession and see how the courts and judges rule all the time. She does not know how to manage her money or kids and be a good and stable mother. The children came out of her; they instinctively know she is their mommy. A Nanny is not the biological mother. The images that the tabloids constantly print of her and her actions can be, and will be, used in court. And it will damage her greatly.

In fact, the tabloids are doing her far more harm than any of her “past fans”, or “haters”, can do all together. The courts will not care about the “past fans”, or “haters”, opinions. But they will care very much about the pictures and films the tabs have shown which can be used in court. If she keeps going like this, she will also loose the rest of her money in a few more years (around five years or so).

The current Britney fans seem to only care about image (hair color, makeup, clothes, and partying all the time, etc.), and not substance (such as facts, or Britney’s kids, or professionalism for Britney’s business). And for the fans that keep saying Britney’s life is nobody’s business, you are wrong.

She became famous because of us. She puts herself out there all the time and shows off her “supposed” personal life on purpose. She wants the attention. We can judge her anytime we want. There is no law against it. If no one ever judged then no one could ever correct a wrong or point out something destructive, or see the difference between right and wrong, good or bad.

It is everyone’s right to judge. She is acting such a fool lately that many should judge her, and they do. She is a celebrity shoving her personal life in everyone’s face on purpose and in a gross and desperate way. She makes her money by selling us all her products. If we do not want to buy her products anymore because we don't like her anymore, or what she or her products stand for, then that is our right and we do not have to accept her or her tactics.

We can say what we want, and judge her all we want. Just like Britney’s fans can have their say and judge her as fit or not doing anything wrong by neglecting her kids, etc.
And just because her kids are not your kids does not mean we can’t care about their well being when she is being such a flake about it. She parties almost every night from around 6 PM to 5 or 6 AM. She then has to sleep, probably 10 hours or so to get over the hangover. She also stated “herself” in a couple interviews that I saw of her some years back that she loves to sleep about 10 to 12 hours threw the day.

Then we see her out in the afternoon shopping a lot without her kids. Then she goes back to partying all night. She is not spending much time at all with her kids. (If you are a mother and truly love your babies then you instinctively want to be with them all the time because you love them). They are the most important of anything to a real mother.

It is so funny how the current Britney fans always scream about how the rest of us should not judge, or don't have the right to judge, when they are far more judgmental then anyone else, and they judge everyone else that is not a Britney fan.

People that party all the time and do crazy things a lot are not professional and do not have their life in control. They are also not responsible and end up loosing a lot in life and loosing control of their lives eventually. These are the same people that don’t care about kids, such as Britney’s kids, and justify what Britney does so they can hope she will give them another CD.

That is so sad that her fans would prefer a CD from her over her kids being raised properly by her, the actual biological mother,and her love.

It seems that the current Britney fans are far more selfish then they are aware of. And by the way, she is looking more and more trailer trash everyday, she does not look beautiful. Check a bunch of her current pictures against the ones from years ago when she was doing great and still looked fresh and young. She really was happy back then and her smile showed it.

Now her smile is hiding a lot of pain and misery. Just look deeper and you will see it there. The problem is that she has caused this all on her own, with her selfishness and stupid tactics. She has gone crazy and really needs psychiatric care.

But the Britney now is literally someone completely different. This is not even the same person. Just like Justin said, he does not even know who she is now, and all the fans that have left, which is the vast majority, don’t know who this woman is now. Britney left some time ago, Sad.