Posted Aug 15th 2007 9:18AM by TMZ Staff
Shannon Funk -- a one-time assistant to Britney Spears -- was welcomed at the Long Beach airport last night by a wall of paparazzi ... and a subpoena!
TMZ cameras were outside the baggage claim after Funk was served with papers from Kevin Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan -- adding the former Team Britney member to a growing list of people being used against Spears in the nasty custody battle. Brit's cousin/assistant Alli was served early Sunday morning and the singer's bodyguard/"manny" got his subpoena the following day.
Although she was a bit POed at her unwelcoming arrival, Funk did manage to crack a smile as the paps grilled her about her former boss, keeping her lips tighter than Britney's weave as she made her way out. Funk-y!
Filed under: Britney Spears
Tags: Shannon Funk, ShannonFunk
Posted Aug 14th 2007 2:01PM by Celly
While K-Fed's lawyers were tying to reach Brit-Brit's former assistant Shannon Funk at home, she was having a girl's night out with OK! magazine staff in NYC. And in the continuing saga of Brit's fantastic train wreckical life, we've learned that it's Shannon who's the source for the juicy new tell-all from an "unnamed employee" that the mag is featuring this week. Confidentiality agreements be damned!
TMZ spotted Funk, who worked for Spears for an all-too-brief three weeks before being fired by the demanding diva July 25, out in the Big Apple on Sunday night with OK! senior reporter Shauna Bass and photo director Maria Collazo. Of course, Funk was the assistant who was with Spears at her chicken-grease-smearing, public-peeing debacle of a photo shoot with OK! a few weeks back. That's irony, mmmkay?
Sources tell TMZ that K-Fed's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan placed several calls to Funk's mother's home in the past few days an effort to track her down. Kaplan's hoping that her testimony, along with the testimony of Spears' other ass-istant/cousin Alli Sims, will prove that K-Fed should have full custody of the couple's two kids, Jayden and Sean.
Filed under: Train Wrecks, Britney Spears
Tags: alli sims, AlliSims, britney spears, BritneySpears, shannon funk, ShannonFunk
