TMZ has obtained court documents filed today, which include a list of Britney Spears' American Express card expenses for the first 11 months of her conservatorship -- the highlight ... she ate at home a lot.
Miss Brit spent a grand total of $5,183.13 at restaurants. Our Britney people tell us the figure is relatively low -- for her -- because daddy Jamie is a cook and did his thing at her house most nights.
As for other expenses on the AmEx card: Entertainment: $482.15 Furniture: $17,370.29 Charities: $974.75 (remember, this is just her credit card -- we're told more was donated). Merchandise, clothing, supplies and groceries: $62,252.11 Transportation/Auto: $18,959.82 Travel: $10,096.53 Communications: $2,150.41
Britney Spears may not be free of her daddy's grasp until at least November, but last night she proved she could get control on one aspect of her life -- she fixed that busted hair do.
We're told it only took her 5 hours in the salon to look this good.
Britney Spears' daddy is ready to release his daughter into the wild again -- we've learned the conservatorship may be coming to an end.
Sources tell us Jamie Spears will ask the court to review the terms of the conservatorship after her concert tour ends in November. Jamie can't ask the judge to end it -- just to review it. The judge then decides if Britney should regain control of her life.
We're told Jamie thinks Britney is ready to roll on her own. He has made her life his full time job since February, 2008.
Fact is ... if it weren't for the tour, given Britney's progress, the judge might already have made the decision to undo the conservatorship. The various vendors were promised under their contracts that the conservatorship would stay in tact throughout the tour.
A little editorial comment ... it may be the most remarkable turnaround we've ever seen. A year and a half ago, people were worried for Britney's life.
Britney Spears' conservators filed legal papers today explaining Britney's finances right down to the last penny -- and let's just say she's got a lot of pennies.
From March to December Brit blew $447,633.69 on security alone. Six months of household repairs and maintenance ran her $49,387.22.
Britney also spent $625,000 to pay Kevin Federline's lawyers, as ordered by the courts. In the docs, the payments are referred to as "Federline Fees."
K-Fed ain't doin too bad either -- from March to December, Britney kicked over $178,818.00 in child support payments.
Grand total expenses for Brit between Feb. and December -- $10,116,678.23.
But the best part: Britney definitely felt the Christmas spirit -- she spent $3400 just to hang lights.
Britney Spears will be appearing in a Los Angeles arena and, if a certain lawyer has it his way, an L.A. County courtroom.
Jon Eardley, Esq., the lawyer who claims Britney hired him to torpedo her conservatorship, has just filed legal papers demanding that Brit appear at a trial in which Eardley has been accused of harassing Britney and her family.
In his legal papers, Eardley notes that Britney will be performing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on April 16 and 17. He says if she's well enough to perform, she's well enough to testify on two points -- did she authorize Eardley to take legal action on her behalf and did Eardley really cause her "substantial emotional distress."
The judge will have to decide if Britney is competent enough to testify and if it's fair to drag her into court. It would certainly be entertaining.
Britney Spears' conservatorship hearings are usually tedious arguments about money -- but today's hearing could mean Britney Spears is taking her tour Down Under. G'day, y'all!
Lawyers today raised the idea of expanding Brit's tour to include dates in Australia and parts of Europe. Currently Britney's tour dates are in the U.S. and Canada, with a few dates in London in June.
Nothing was decided upon today. They are due back in court April 14.
TMZ has learned the attorney for Britney Spears' conservatorship has guaranteed Britney will meet all her obligations on her concert tour -- and he's putting his money where his mouth is.
We've obtained documents showing attorney Andrew Wallet has given his personal assurance -- to the tune of $1.5 million -- that if Britney flakes out, he'll pay up.
The conservatorship made numerous deals for the tour last year, and vendors wanted to make sure those deals would be honored. It's common practice to get what amounts to a bond when the subject of the contract is under a conservatorship.
The document, which was signed by the court on December 22, 2008, also makes American Contractors Indemnity Company a guarantor.
In short, this means that if Britney goes south, Wallet won't have to open his -- the insurance company will take care of it.
So there's a voicemail recording that just started circulating -- a message allegedly left by Britney Spears, worrying that daddy Jamie might take the kids from her.
The tape, which JFXonline claims was recorded on January 21, 2009, sounds like a message left for a lawyer -- we think we know who ... the dude who's been meddling in Britney's affairs for a year now. She talks about ending the conservatorship.
P.S. -- Sounds like she's ok with Jamie now, since he's been with her on tour and the conservatorship is running the show ... which is raking in the dough.
Britney Spears' comeback -- priceless. Hiring lawyers to help make it happen -- $2.7 million.
Britney's conservators have hired a total of 17 lawyers and law firms to handle her affairs over the last 14 months. According to legal papers filed in L.A. County Superior Court yesterday, the fees just keep on piling up.
The attorneys representing Jamie Spears have racked up more than $1 mil in fees.
Britney has made the legal profession recession-proof -- clearly.
Jamie Spears says taking care of Britney is more than a full time job, and that's why the court is giving him $16,000 a month.
In a declaration to the conservatorship commissioner filed Friday, Jamie wrote that he engages in 200 - 400 communications every day to coordinate all things Brit -- not including Fanta orders. Jamie says he's overseeing Britney's tour that kicks off tonight, and must coordinate Brit's "medical, health, business, costuming, personal, security, household staff, and legal matters (touching upon entertainment, music, family law litigation, the resolution of numerous disputes, and the ongoing litigation and conservatorship matters."
Jamie says he works 60 - 70 hours a week to keep things afloat.
The lawyers in Britney Spears' conservatorship case went to court this morning to ask the judge for... what else???? They want to hire more lawyers to defend Britney.
Brit's mouthpiece claims the singer needs two civil lawyers to defend her in Sam Lutfi's defamation case against Britney and her family. Here's the deal. The two lawyers will cost a grand total of $935 an hour. The judge gave the green light, so the Bank of Brit is fully open for business.
Spears is expected to keep the legal profession afloat during these hard economic times.
Check out alleged co-conspirator Adnan Ghalib, sporting his soul patch, last Thursday in Hollywood, the day before Britney's conservators got a restraining order against him and his buddy Sam Lutfi.
We broke the story that Adnan and Sam allegedly tried to undo Brit's conservatorship by threatening to divulge personal and hurtful info about the Spears clan. We're told Brit is now so pissed at them, she wants the duo to rot in jail.
TMZ has just obtained declarations from Jamie Spears and others in the latest Britney Spears case -- Britney's lawyer says Sam Lutfi had inserted himself and tried peddling false and hurtful info about Jamie, Britney and others in her family.
Sam allegedly was calling lawyers saying that Britney wanted to hire her own lawyer, presumably to fight the conservatorship. Sources tell TMZ that is definitely not what Britney wanted.
As we first reported, the conservators for Britney Spears obtained a restraining order today against Sam Lutfi, Adnan Ghalib and attorney Jon Eardley. We're told Brit herself is furious at Lutfi and Ghalib and would like to see them jailed.
Here's the most interesting part....According to the legal papers, late last month Lutfi sent text messages to Brit's hairdresser, saying he wasn't responsible for the conservatorship. A week or so later, Britney received "instant messages from a person with the screen name ____....The person -- who posed as the mother of a daughter with autism -- made a number of utterly false and hurtful assertions concerning Mr. Spears and his family, threatening to go public with such purported 'information' unless Mr. Spears spoke with that person." Almost immediately after Brit got those messages, Lutfi began calling Jamie.
We've learned Britney Spears conservators have just obtained a restraining order against Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib.
Britney's lawyers went to court this morning to obtain the injunction.
A source close to the conservatorship tells TMZ Britney asked her conservators to "protect her from Sam and Adnan." We've also learned Britney told her conservators she was afraid of them both and hoped they could be locked up in jail.
A source tells TMZ the conservators believe Lutfi and Ghalib conspired to try and undermine Britney's conservatorship in a way that would have been extremely harmful to her. We're also told attorney Jon Eardley -- the dude Lutfi used early last year to mount a bizarre, baseless attack on the conservatorship -- was allegedly also in on the conspiracy and the TRO is against him as well.
Britney Spears and her conservators formally have asked the court commissioner handling her conservatorship to allow her to go on a U.S. tour next year, with the possibility of taking it worldwide.
We've learned when Britney was in court Friday, she told the judge she wants to tour, feels competent to do so and she wants her conservators to make the necessary deals with backup singers, roadies, venues, ticket brokers and the many others involved.
We're told the conservators, including daddy Jamie, are on board and have laid out how the deals will be structured. They told the commish they will submit all of the contracts for court review.
The proposed order is on the commissioner's desk, and she could sign it as early as tomorrow. If that happens, we're told the conservators will begin making deals immediately for the tour.
This is an incredibly complicated undertaking, in no small part because Britney legally can't make any of the deals herself.
TMZ has obtained court documents filed today, which include a list of Britney Spears' American Express card expenses for the first 11 months of her conservatorship -- the highlight ... she ate at home a lot.
Britney Spears' daddy is ready to release his daughter into the wild again -- we've learned the conservatorship may be coming to an end.
Britney Spears' conservators filed legal papers today explaining Britney's finances right down to the last penny -- and let's just say she's got a lot of pennies.
Britney Spears will be appearing in a Los Angeles arena and, if a certain lawyer has it his way, an L.A. County courtroom.
Britney Spears' conservatorship hearings are usually tedious arguments about money -- but today's hearing could mean Britney Spears is taking her tour Down Under. G'day, y'all!
TMZ has learned the attorney for Britney Spears' conservatorship has guaranteed Britney will meet all her obligations on her concert tour -- and he's putting his money where his mouth is.
Britney Spears' comeback -- priceless. Hiring lawyers to help make it happen -- $2.7 million.
Jamie Spears says taking care of Britney is more than a full time job, and that's why the court is giving him $16,000 a month.
The lawyers in Britney Spears' conservatorship case went to court this morning to ask the judge for... what else???? They want to hire more lawyers to defend Britney.
Britney Spears and her conservators formally have asked the court commissioner handling her conservatorship to allow her to go on a U.S. tour next year, with the possibility of taking it worldwide.
