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Celebrity Gossip
| 7 months ago
Out for a little weekend primping, Britney Spears hit up her hair salon in Beverly Hills, CA on Saturday (October 20). The X-Factor judge went for comfort on her day off, wearing grey sweat pants and a striped top, while sporting freshly-colored...
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Anything Hollywood
| 7 months ago
The ongoing libel trial between the Britney Spears parents and her former manager, Sam Lufti , has opposing sides bringing up even the pop star's past relationships, specifically with The X Factor judge's first public love, the recently wed NSync...
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Pink is the New Blog
| 7 months ago
Our dear Britney Spears was spotted out and about in LA this week lookin' like a million bucks with her trusty Starbucks drink in hand while rockin' a cute new hair'do...I've wasted far too much time talking about that person so I shant go back into...
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Starpulse
| 7 months ago
During court testimony, Britny Spears ' father Jamie admitted he feared his daughter would die during her infamous breakdown in 2007. On the second day of the defamation trial between Spears' former manager Sam Lufti and her mom Lynne, Jamie's lawyer...
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Starpulse
| 7 months ago
In court yesterday, an attorney for Britney Spears ' family insinuated that the pop star's breakdown several years ago was spurred by her split with Justin Timberlake, according to E! online. Lawyer Leon Gladstone noted in opening statements in a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
The civil trial pitting Britney Spears ' ex-manager Sam Lutfi against the singer's conservatorship and her parents opened ugly Thursday, with accusations of drug abuse and a desperate attempt to hide addiction leveled against Spears by Lutfi's lawyer.
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Chicago Tribune
| 7 months ago
Judge Britney Spears poses at the season two premiere of the television series ''The X Factor'' at Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California September 11, 2012. The father of pop star Britney Spears was terrified by his daughter's deepening...
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TMZ
| 7 months ago
Sam Lutfi was so heartless ... he would hide Britney Spears ' precious pooch from her and watch her cry and then save the day by "finding it" ... so claims lawyers for Britney's family. In their opening statements, lawyers for Lynne Spears and the...
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ExpoSay
| 7 months ago
Justin Timberlake has been blamed for Britney Spears' troubles. The childhood sweethearts split over a decade ago, after which Britney got married twice and reportedly started using drugs and her father Jamie Spears' lawyer Leon Gladstone argued the...
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The Dish Rag
| 7 months ago
Sam Lutfi's attorney may have opened the defamation trial against Britney Spears and her parents on Thursday (Oct. 17) by painting a picture of Lutfi as a confidant who tried his best to keep the singer clean. But the Spears family's attorney says in...
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Perez Hilton
| 7 months ago
While Justin Timberlake is in Italy celebrating his marriage to Jessica Biel , Britney Spears ' lawyer is in court accusing him of driving Brit craycray! Brit Brit's lawyers made their opening statements today in defense of the Spears family trial...
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TMZ
| 7 months ago
While lawyers, jurors and reporters hear all about the meltdown of Britney Spears and who's responsible for her drug-fueled downward spiral, Britney was enjoying a frothy drink at Starbucks in Encino...Britney will not have to take the oath, because...
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ABC News
| 7 months ago
She liked to use amphetamines, speed or uppers and most of the things that went wrong were related to that drug, attorney Joseph Schleimer said in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday where his client, Sam Lufti , is suing Spears, 30, and her family,...
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Celebrity VIP Lounge
| 7 months ago
Because Sam was the manager of Team Spears during her most craziest. Shaving her head at three o'clock in the morning as the paparazzi clicked away?...Going batshit crazy with an umbrella with video cameras recording every second?...During the height...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Justin Timberlake is being blamed for Britney Spears' 2008 psychotic meltdown, TMZ reported...In reports on the trial, the involuntary psychiatric hold has been commonly referred to as 5150, which is a section of the California Welfare and...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears looked remarkably carefree amid a series of drug allegations from former manager Sam Lufti. While Spears may not have been camera-ready she certainly caught the attention of photographers, who snapped the 30-year-old "X Factor" judge...
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Fox
| 7 months ago
New York Post Britney Spears Is Fox411's Celebrity of the Decade Britney Spears was able to command the spotlight for 10 years with her talent, her relationships, her meltdowns, and her comebacks. A shocking claim was made during the opening...
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Leader Post Online
| 7 months ago
pop star, X-Factor host, mother, sister, lover (of sweatpants). But was Britney Spears ever a crystal meth addict? That's what Spears' former manager Sam Lutfi claims, and according to the 38-year-old one-time major player in the Spears tabloid...
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LA Times
| 7 months ago
If there was any chance of the lawsuit between Britney Spears ' parents and her ex-manager, Sam Lufti, ending politely, it went out the window on day one of the trial . Lufti, who is suing Jamie and Lynn Spears for libel after they assumed control of...
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Anything Hollywood
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears shocked the world when she went nuts and shaved her hair off during her widely-publicized meltdown in 2007. But as it turns out, it could just have been a plan to hide the fact that she was on drugs . As part of her former manager Sam...
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OK! Magzine
| 7 months ago
The act seemed puzzling back in 2007, but during the bombshell courtcase between Sam Lufti and the Spears clan (Sam is suing for libel), her ex-manager reveals that Brit was battling a pretty severe drug problem at the time. Sam alleges that Britney...
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The Superficial
| 7 months ago
Later, her mother Lynne would accuse Sam of crushing pills into Britney's food and drinks (Adderall-laced Furnch Fries were always her weakness.) which brings us to yesterday's court proceedings where Sam is suing Britney for not paying him for his...
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The Dish Rag
| 7 months ago
The defamation trial started by her ex-manager Sam Lutfi began Thursday (Oct. 18), and Lutfi's attorney is already bringing up some pretty serious drug charges against the "X Factor" judge. "My client was made a scapegoat for the drug abuse and...
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Daily Mail
| 7 months ago
19 October 2012 Britney Spears attempted to put on a brave face on Thursday afternoon a s her ex manager made a series of bombshell claims about her in court. The 30-year-old looked tense and disheveled as she stepped out in LA with a male companion...
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Celebrity Gossip
| 7 months ago
Adding more legal drama to her family life, Britney Spears' parents are being sued by her former confidante Sam Lutfi. According to a report, Lutfi claims he was blamed for the Toxic songstress' massive breakdown years ago, and Jamie and Lynne Spears...
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Perez Hilton
| 7 months ago
After Britney Spears ' former manager Sam Lufti dropped some pretty craycray allegations against her, claiming she shaved her head to hide any evidence that she had been abusing drugs (specifically meth , as Lufti claims), it turns out he was lying...
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Efron Freak
| 7 months ago
Just because it's been quiet for a few weeks since Britney Spears former manager Sam Lufti started his defamation lawsuit against the pop star, doesn't mean that he's given up on trying to take her down. In fact, he's been building up to a big...
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People.com
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears 's past nightmares came back to haunt Thursday as a trial pitting her former manager against the Spears family got under way in a Los Angeles courtroom. Sam Lutfi, 38, is suing the pop star, 30 who's not expected to appear at the trial...
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MamaPop
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears Civil Trial Totally Not Civil 10/19/2012 by Like, at all...The civil suit was filed against Britney Spears s handlers, as well as her parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears , by a former confidant of the Grammy winner a clown named Sam Lufti .
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Cele|bitchy
| 7 months ago
This was after the incident where she refused to handover her sons on 1-3 and before she was put on a psychiatric hold on 1-31. I'm going to get this out of the way first Sam Lutfi is a scary, manipulative lying bastard. That doesn't mean I'm...
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Starpulse
| 7 months ago
Lufti's defamation trial against Spears' mom Lynne began on Thursday, and his attorney Joseph Schleimer issued an opening statment claiming Lutfi was not the cause of Spears' meltdown following her split from husband Kevin Federline. "She liked to...
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X17 Online
| 7 months ago
Opening statements for Sam Lufti's breach of contract/defamation suit against Britney Spears and her conservators began yesterday and the singer's former manager had some explosive information to share. Lufti's lawyer, Joseph Schleimer, claimed that...
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USA Today Life
| 7 months ago
Story Highlights The pop star's former manager is suing Spears and her parents. 'The X Factor' judge wasn't in the courtroom Thursday for opening statements...Britney Spears was not in a Los Angeles court Thursday, but her parents were.
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Osama "Sam" Lufti is suing Britney Spears for breach of contract. His attorney, Joseph Schleimer, told the court that Spears used his client as a "scapegoat" to cover up her use of amphetamines including speed. The accusations refer to the years that...
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TMZ
| 7 months ago
Britney shaved her head while in a paranoid, drug-fueled state. To the contrary, he told our photog he thought Britney shaving her head was "a cool thing ... somebody expressing their artistic side." Lutfi went on ... "I think she was just expressing...
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Adelaide Now
| 7 months ago
Sam Lufti's lawyer Joseph Schleimer accused Britney Spears of abusing amphetamines in court. The songstress' former manager has sued the pop princess and her parents for defamation and breach of contract. The trial commenced Thursday and TMZ reports...
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Gawker
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears' Ex-Manager Says She Was Smoking Crystal Meth (Probably) One of the saddest parts of Britney Spears' protracted public meltdown was that her life at the time was in the hands of people who were at best extremely sleazy and worst...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Lufti's lawyer said his client was a concerned friend who "worked very hard to keep Britney Spears off drugs" before she went through her psychiatric episode in 2008, which ended with her father getting a conservatorship over her estate.
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Perez Hilton
| 7 months ago
The trial for Sam Lutfi 's libel suit against Britney Spears and the Spears family has just begun, and Sam's lawyer is already dropping some crazyass bombs! During their opening statement's Brit Brit's former manager's legal team suggested Britney...
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TMZ
| 7 months ago
IT ALL OFF during her infamous 2007 meltdown ... at least according to Sam Lutfi. Sam's lawyer, Joseph Schleimer, has been telling the court ... Britney was a serious drug-abuser ... who had a penchant for crystal meth. Schleimer suggested Britney...
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ExpoSay
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears was reportedly going broke when Sam Lutfi was her manager...A source told RadarOnline.com: ''Britney was haemorraghing money at the time when Sam Lutfi was in her life and acting as her manager. Her estimated net worth in 2007-2008 was...
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The Idaho Statesman
| 7 months ago
Jurors have been selected to hear a case against Britney Spears' parents that will focus heavily on events that led up to her public breakdown. The panel of eight women and four mean was selected Thursday to hear claims by Spears' former confidante...
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MTV
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears wants YOU to root for her team on " The X Factor ," and she's enlisting help from her sons!...If you don't watch "The X Factor" (big mistake, by the way), then we'll remind you that Britney has been mentoring the teen contestants and...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
This week, the elder Spears received a court order against Lufti, who is Jewish, that bars him from accusing her of being an anti-Semite during the pair's upcoming defamation battle, according to TMZ . In 2009, Lufti first brought suit against Lynne...
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E! Online
| 7 months ago
Spears' new pad, built in 2010, is slightly under 8,500 square feet and has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, along with a pool and fireplace...Well, the recording star's fortune was drastically increased recently by signing up to be a judge on The...
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ExpoSay
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears' mother is terrified she will be accused of being a racist...A source told US gossip website TMZ that Lynne has filed documents asking the court to block Sam from calling on an expert witness to testify about controversial comments she...
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Perez Hilton
| 7 months ago
Rumor has it Britney Spears ' legal team are totally gonna f*ck up her ex 'manager' Sam Lufti , shark attack lawyer style! Sam is suing the sassy country chitlin and her entire family for defamation and assault. The sketchy dude also claims Britney...
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TMZ
| 7 months ago
Celebrity Justice Britney Spears ' mom is afraid Sam Lutfi will paint her an anti-Semite during their imminent trial -- so she just got an order blocking him from making Jew-hating allegations .....The order stems from Lynne Spears calling Sam Lutfi...
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Celeb Tots
| 7 months ago
We've thought for a while now that something seemed fishy about Britney Spears conservatorship. Why would she, a fully grown woman, need someone else to manage not only her finances, but her personal life and medical care? They say it's because she's...
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TMZ
| 7 months ago
Britney Spears' lawyers will come out of the gate swinging in Sam Lutfi 's lawsuit against her and her family ... calling BS on his argument that the singer was on drugs and he was trying to save her. Sources connected with the case tell us ...
