Britney Spears finds her voice in the legal battle that pits her against the "master father". During a procedural hearing, her attorney Samuel Ingham informed Judge Brenda Penny that the singer "intends to speak in person in court".
Ingham has not indicated what the 39-year-old Britney intends to say, other than that her speech on June 23 will address issues at the heart of the protection that her father Jamie Spears has exercised over her for years.
The story is intricate: it is since 2008, after the serious and public nervous breakdown of his daughter (her photos with a shaved head had then gone around the world), that Jamie has become the legal guardian of assets and career. by Britney, a role she is said to be paid around $ 130,000 a year for. The legal term in California is "conservatorship" and several legal experts had turned up their noses because this type of protection is generally applied to those with mental disorders or the elderly.
For years Britney hadn't contested the situation. That all changed last year when her lawyer declared in court that the pop star was "strongly opposed to paternal guardianship and would no longer sing in public if things didn't change. Jamie retorted that fortunes are in hand. to Britney have grown thanks to her financial acumen: from subzero a decade ago, to the 60 million dollars of the latest Forbes valuation.
The legal battle from the courtrooms had taken to the streets. Protesters of the #FreeBritney movement, which has gathered support across the board, from Cher to Paris Hilton, from Miley Cyrus to the American Civil Liberties Union organization, also yesterday mobilized outside the Los Angeles Courthouse while other fans mobilized in London to take the side of the singer.
According to her defenders, after the nervous breakdown, the pop star's career took off again and Britney is back on the crest of the wave: she appeared in the series "How I Met Your Mother", launched the single and the "Womanizer" video that rocketed the charts, went on world tours and brought a sold out show to Las Vegas.
In addition to being a judge at X Factor, she advertised perfumes and a line of underwear. Lastly, the documentary of the "New York Times" released on FX and Hulu at the beginning of the year: in addition to following the career of the singer, first as a child star and then a pop prodigy as a teen-ager, the film directed by Samantha Stark aims the spotlight on Spears' recent attempts to break free from paternal tutelage.
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