Celebrity Justice
Brit's Right Hand Man -- Deposed!

TMZ has learned Sam Lutfi, the man who has been all around Britney for more than a year, is about to have his deposition taken in the ongoing custody battle.
Britney and Sam
We're told Lutfi is about to arrive at the offices of K-Daddy's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan. Lutfi has tried to block the depo, even running from Aaron Cohen, who served him with the depo subpoena.

We're told one of the lines of questioning involves the photo agency X17. We're told Kaplan wants to know if Brit made a deal with X17 to "catch" her living life, and if Lutfi is the bagman. If Brit is making money from a photo agency, that wouldn't sit well with the Commish.

Stay tuned ...


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31. X!& earned $2.5 million dollars selling BRITNEY SPEARS pictures last year. The owner was just on FOX News and inadvertantly admitted that they do pay some celebrities...

Posted at 1:50PM on Jan 24th 2008 by FABIO

32. X17 earned $2.5 million dollars selling BRITNEY SPEARS pictures last year. The owner was just on FOX News and inadvertantly admitted that they do pay some celebrities...

Posted at 1:50PM on Jan 24th 2008 by FABIO

33. Rubbish. All of it. TMZ. The allegations. Even HER if this is true.

Posted at 1:50PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Mhenad

34. CNN has a good article http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/24/diagnosing.britney.ap/index.html about a recent seminar by the American Psychoanalytical Association about the absurdity of entities like TMZ assigning a diagnosis to Spears with no education, no knowledge and no 1st hand experience with her.

it's pathetic that TMZ keeps repeating over and over " her bipolar disorder " when TMZ wouldn't know Bipolar Disorder if it crawled up and bit them on the ass.

Posted at 1:51PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Felonious Monk

35. jillie, please never do a cut and paste again-EVER!!! That made no sense and was just stupid! You must of thought it was cool, but it absolutely wasn't and took up a hell off a lot of space!

Posted at 1:51PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Stop doing that!

36. It's just more money K-Fed can say she has, more child support for him....

She's playing right into his hand by acting so strange, not showing up for court, and all the other.

It's hard for a parent to lose all rights to custody and visitation, obviuosly the commissioner knows more about her than we do.

Posted at 1:52PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Adrienne

37. It has been my thought ever since she started acting crazy, driving her car to no apparent location that all of this has been set up for photos. I am no longer going to watch this disgusting display. Her career is over.

Posted at 1:53PM on Jan 24th 2008 by francine

38. Fox news is currently talking with a rep from X17. Pap is saying Brit is 30 percent (30 percent!) of their income. Just an FYI for
ya.

Posted at 1:53PM on Jan 24th 2008 by 1101

39. Why does anyone even care? This is a classic case of OVEREXPOSURE. I am so sick of this story.

Posted at 1:57PM on Jan 24th 2008 by SaveFerris

40. ANYONE remember the interview done with Geraldo Rivera close to a year ago, in which he said she WAS in "contract" with some photo agency to follow her around and take footage of her comings and goings, and intended to turn the footage into a docudrama that may be called In The Pink?!? In that interview - when she still had 50/50, if not PRIMARY, custody of her children, Geraldo said she would very likely end up losing total custody of her children. I cannot remember who the interviewer was, but the interviewer was kind of like, "Yeah, right, Geraldo. That's ridiculous." I thought the same thing, at the time. It was right around her birthday party where she put her butt up to the window and bent over to show her panties, and had a big blonde-do, before the head shaving and rehab. Did anyone else see that interview?

Posted at 6:47PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Hideous

41. "We're told Kaplan wants to know if Brit made a deal with X17 to "catch" her living life, and if Lutfi is the bagman."

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Ah, that's classic! I'd love to hear the answer to that one, too! I loved how X17 used to totally fawn over her, then completely turned on her once Adnan's agency, FinalPixx, started getting the "Exclusives." And then, what do you know, Britney and Sam invite X17 over for an "exclusive" at her mansion on Saturday night, and Sam pulls out a supposed restraining order against Adnan. And X17 loves her again. But wait!!! Britney's back with Adnan! I guess the restraining order isn't new after all...

What a tangled little web Britney's so-called "manager" Howard K., I mean, Osama Lutfi weaves...I wonder how much she is even aware of it...

Posted at 1:55PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Little Games People Play

42. I knew in my gut this was all being staged for profit,"Britney's reality show,"hope her kids enjoy her hard earned income

Posted at 1:55PM on Jan 24th 2008 by zippy

43. i hope he tells the truth .

i hppe he knows the truth .

Posted at 1:58PM on Jan 24th 2008 by R.I.P.HEATH

44. 29. Even if she never gets her kids back she still has the biological makeup for producing more.... that is if a STD doesn't rot it first...

Posted at 1:49PM on Jan 24th 2008 by LAD
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Oh My..LOL
You all have me laughing today :o)

Posted at 2:04PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Lori B

45. "X17online is with Sam Lufti as he heads over to Mark Vincent Kaplan's office to be deposed in Brit's ongoing custody case.

According to TMZ, one of the issues being addressed is whether or not Britney or Sam were ever paid by X17online for access to the pop-star's life.

This line of questioning comes as quite a surprise to us - but we can save you the time, Mark.

THE ANSWER IS NO."

QUOTED DIRECTLY FROM X17ONLINE.COM.
http://x17online.com/

Posted at 2:01PM on Jan 24th 2008 by Mhenad

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