Britney Spears’ former business manager Lou Taylor claims her company had no involvement with bugging or drugging accusations
- Taylor disputed Spears’ accusations in new court documents
- She is asking a judge to block Spears’ lawyer’s request for documents accounting her business’ financial relationship with the pop star
- In related filings Taylor’s business partner writes ‘No one at Tri Star is aware of any hidden electronic surveillance device placed in Ms. Spears’ bedroom’
- He also denied Tri Star had ‘any control over Ms. Spears’ medical treatment’
- The documentary Controlling Britney Spears accused conservators of monitoring her phone and controlling her medication
- Britney is worth $60m but insiders claim financial mismanagement robbed her of earning ‘two to three times’ as much
Britney Spears’ former business manager Lou Taylor’s company says they have nothing to do with claims the pop star was bugged or being controlled through her medication during her 13 year long conservatorship.
Taylor’s camp disputed Spears’ accusations in new court documents obtained by TMZ, in which her company Tri Star Sports And Entertainment Group asked the judge overseeing the conservatorship to stop Britney’s lawyer Mathew Rosengart from being granted a full accounting of Taylor and Spears’ business relationship over the last 13 years.
Within the documents is a statement from Taylor’s partner Robin Greenhill, declaring: ‘No one at [Taylor’s business] Tri Star is aware of any hidden electronic surveillance device placed in Ms. Spears’ bedroom.’
It went on: ‘No one at Tri Star has ever had any control over Ms. Spears’ medical treatment.’
Denial: Britney Spears’ former business manager Lou Taylor’s company says they have nothing to do with claims the pop star was bugged or being controlled through her medication
The statement did not address other claims about Britney’s life under Tri Star and father Jamie Spears’ watch, like reports she was barred from going on vacations at certain times or forbidden to buy things because they were out of the superstar’s budget.
Britney’s lawyer is looking into the possibility Spears’ finances were mishandled by Taylor via Tri Star Sports And Entertainment Group.
Britney is worth a reported $60million, but TMZ insiders said that it would be two to three times if not mismanaged and exploited by her conservatorship.
Taylor says a deep dive into the account is overreach, seeing as Tri Star submitted regular accountings over the 11 years Taylor was involved in the conservatorship, without objection from Spears.
Disputing that, Rosengart says his client was not being protected by her counsel or conservators during that time.
Tri Star, however, claims when they left the Spears conservatorship they shared a complete set of books and records, including more than 16,000 files.
Declared: In the documents Taylor’s business partner declared ‘No one at Tri Star is aware of any hidden electronic surveillance device placed in Ms. Spears’ bedroom,’ an accusation made in a documentary expose about the star
Outraged: Britney’s lawyer is looking into the possibility Spears’ finances were mishandled by Taylor via Tri Star Sports And Entertainment Group. Seen September 29th above
Rosengart is waiting for documentation of the total amount of fees Tri Star’s taken from Britney since 2008, according to TMZ’s documents in which he said: ‘Tri Star’s ongoing failure to answer this question speaks volumes and leads to the unfortunate and inexorable conclusion that Tri Star has much to hide.’
Tri Star and Spears ended their business relationship in August 2020, after Taylor claimed she and others were getting death threats.
Earlier in this year the CNN documentary Toxic: Britney Spears’ Battle For Freedom one of their sources claimed: ‘Britney is aware and angered by the control exercised over her by Lou Taylor and her company, which reaped millions of dollars from her estate.’
Around the same time the FX documentary Controlling Britney Spears accused her conservators and managers of monitoring her phone.
Their source Alex Vlasov worked for the security firm Black Box, which worked with Britney for nine years.
He told the filmmakers: ‘You would be able to see all messages, all FaceTime calls, notes, browser history, photographs.’
Later, he would say Spears’ situation ‘reminded me of somebody that was in prison and security was put in a position to be the prison guards.’
Longtime: Taylor founded Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group in 1992 and became involved with Spears in 2004 via Britney’s little sister Jamie Lynn. She’s seen in 2017 above
Parents: Britney’s parents Lynne Spears and Jamie Spears are seen in 2004 above
Taylor founded Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group in 1992 and became involved with Spears in 2004 via Britney’s little sister Jamie Lynn.
Then, in 2008 she was described as a ‘Spears family spokesperson’ during a Today show interview about the singer’s annulled marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander.
Multiple sources have claimed she was instrumental to the start of Spears’ conservatorship, but Taylor has adamantly denied all claims.
She previously told the makers of Britney Vs. Spears via her lawyer Charles Harder that ‘it was not [Tri Star’s] place’ to advocate for or against the guardianship.
Tri Star, which has offices in Nashville and Los Angeles, specializes in ‘accounting, financial statement preparation, royalty and participation rights audits, tour accounting, production accounting, estate planning and foreign and domestic tax filings,’ according to its website.
In addition to Spears they’ve done business with Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, Gwen Stefani, Reba McEntire, Priyanka Chopra, Mary J. Blige and Florida Georgia Line.
TIMELINE OF BRITNEY’S COMPLEX CONSERVATORSHIP AND HOW IT BEGAN
Britney with her father, brother and mother in 2006. Her parents separated
2002: Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears divorce.
Britney breaks up with Justin Timberlake around the same time.
2004: Britney marries Kevin Federline.
2005: Britney and Kevin welcome their first child, Sean Preston Federline.
2006: Jayden James Federline, Britney and Kevin’s second child, is born.
2007: Britney, struggling through a custody battle and split with Kevin, shaves her head and attacks a paparazzo’s car.
2008: Jamie Spears files for conservatorship of Britney, claiming she is not legally well enough to make her own decisions.
Britney in 2008 for a custody hearing as part of her split with Kevin Federline. Jamie Spears in court in 2008 getting the conservatorship
2009-2019: QUIET CONSERVATORSHIP YEARS
The conservatorship – which had been temporary – is extended every year.
In court papers, Jamie’s attorneys describe how she is making more money.
JANUARY 2019: THE ARRANGEMENT STARTS TO CRUMBLE
Britney in 2019, in the grips of the conservatorship, in Las Vegas at her residency
Britney announces an ‘indefinite’ work hiatus and cancels her lucrative Las Vegas residency.
Jamie files paperwork asking for the conservatorship to be extended beyond California, to apply in Hawaii, Louisiana and Florida as well.
He steps down as her primary conservator after allegations he abused one of her sons but is still listed as one of those in charge.
EARLY 2020: Britney, Jamie and Jamie-Lynne are in Louisiana together for two weeks.
The #FreeBritney movement is picking up.
Jamie’s attorneys claim everyone is happy together and enjoying spending time together in quarantine.
NOVEMBER 2020: Britney’s attorneys claim in papers that she is afraid of her father and asks for Bessemer Trust to be put in charge.
Her fans start speculating over her cryptic Instagram posts and videos that she wants a way out.
DECEMBER 2020: The conservatorship is extended until September 2021.
FEBRUARY 5, 2021: Framing Britney Spears debuts on Hulu.
The conservatorship that Britney was put under is ordinarily used in situations where older, perhaps senile people, can no longer look after their own affairs.
Fans are concerned for her well-being and have demanded that she be released from the control of her father, Jamie
It gives control over to an appointed conservator for the best interest of the recipient but in most cases, the recipient is not healthy enough to make their own money, unlike Britney who makes millions. Under the rules of the probate conservatorship, Jamie now has equal control over her estate to a third party and an attorney, Andrew Wallet.
Wallet derives a salary of $426,000 a year from Britney’s estate.
He, Jamie and the third party who was brought on recently can make deals on her behalf and restrict her visitors.
JUNE 23, 2021 – BRITNEY SPEAKS OUT IN COURT
Britney and her boyfriend Sam Asghari
In an emotional testimony, Britney told the court that she had suffered psychologically for years as a result of the conservatorship which she said was so restrictive, she wasn’t allowed to remove her IUD birth control.
JUNE 30, 2021 – JUDGE DENIES BRITNEY’S REQUEST TO REMOVE JAMIE
Judge Brenda Penny, responding to Britney’s November 2020 request, refuses to remove Jamie from the agreement.
She doesn’t say why but she does invite her attorney to file paperwork to end it, which he doesn’t.
JULY 1, 2021 – BESSEMER TRUST RESIGNS AFTER BEING PUT IN CHARGE WITH JAMIE
A day after the judge’s ruling, Bessemer Trust, which had been brought on, resigned, saying they were never aware that Britney wanted to end the conservatorship.
In a court filing, the company’s attorneys said: ‘We heard her and respect her wishes.’
JULY 5, 2021 – BRITNEY’S LONG-TIME MANAGER RESIGNS
Larry Rudolph wrote a letter to Jamie and the conservatorship to say he was no longer needed since Britney wanted to retire.
He said he hadn’t spoken to her for two years but had been told by others that she wanted to step down.
JULY 6, 2021 – BRITNEY’S ATTORNEY STEPS DOWN
Sam Ingham, the attorney appointed to represent Britney in 2008, steps down after failing to file paperwork to terminate the conservatorship, despite her pleas.
JULY 14, 2021 -BRITNEY WINS RIGHT TO CHOOSE HER OWN LAWYER
A Los Angeles court granted Britney the right to choose a lawyer to help her end her conservatorship, after she told a judge the current situation was ‘allowing my dad to ruin my life.’ She chose former federal prosecutor Mathew Rosengart as her new attorney.
JULY 23, 2021 – BRITNEY FLASHES HER BOOBS ON INSTAGRAM
Singer’s semi-nude post was hailed by fans including Paris Hilton as evidence of her determination to become a ‘free woman’.
JULY 27, 2021 – LYNNE SPEARS AGREES TO TESTIFY IN SUPPORT OF HER DAUGHTER
The singer’s mother’s attack on Jamie gives her a powerful new ally in her bid to be freed.
AUGUST 12, 2021 – JAMIE SPEARS AGREES TO STEP DOWN AS CONSERVATOR
Jamie’s lawyers filed court documents saying that he will step down, and provide an orderly transition to another conservator.
He said that he was doing so because he felt a public argument with his daughter was not in her best interests.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 – JAMIE SPEARS FILES TO END THE CONSERVATORSHIP
Jamie states that his daughter ‘is entitled to have this Court now seriously consider whether this conservatorship is no longer required.’
The filing went on to say that Britney Spears’ circumstances have changed ‘to such an extent that grounds for establishment of a conservatorship may no longer exist.’
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 – JAMIE SUSPENDED FROM CONSERVATORSHIP
LA Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ruled to suspend Jamie as the conservator of Britney’s estate.
Accountant John Zabel has been named as the temporary replacement conservator.
NOVEMBER 2, 2021 – JAMIE FILES TO END THE CONSERVATORSHIP IMMEDIATELY, RELINQUISHING ALL FINANCIAL CLAIMS
Jamie Spears filed court documents declaring that he was leaving the arrangement immediately, handing over all documents, and not seeking any financial benefit.
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