Mathew Rosengart Britney Spears’ attorney is on the offensive against her dad Jamie Spears. He is demanding documents that he admits to spying on her via listening devices.
According to TMZ, Rosengart filed legal documents to her ongoing conservatorship case, asking for ‘all documents relating to any recording and listening device in Britney Jean’s home or bedroom’.
Jamie, a 39-year-old pop star, was also accused by Jamie’s legal team of changing his tune in support of dissolving the conservatorship to preserve ‘his reputation’
Standing up for Britney: Britney Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart is going on the offensive against her father Jamie Spears and demanding he provide documents admitted he spied on the popstar in her bedroom via listening devices, according to TMZ
According to a new legal filing Rosengart has asked Jamie to provide ‘all documents, communications, and information relating to any recording, listening device, or home of Britney Jean Spears’, including all communications relating the decision to place any such recording, listening device, or record.
He asked for any information relating to electronic surveillance, monitoring or cloning, as well as recording calls, emails and text messages, history of internet browsing, social media use, or direct messages on such media.
Britney’s legal team wanted to depose her father, and security manager, over the alleged monitoring and recording of the pop princess in her bedroom. A source previously told DailyMail.com.
Rosengart made it clear in these latest legal documents that he felt Jamie wanted to avoid having to talk about such things under oath in order to protect his own reputation.
According to a new legal filing Rosengart has asked Jamie to provide ‘all documents, communications, and information relating to any recording, listening device, or home of Britney Jean Spears’, including all communications relating the decision to place any such recording, listening device, or record.
Rosengart stated, referring to Jamie Spears’s support of ending the conservatorship, that ‘It is not of any moment, presently whether Mr. Spears’s reversal had been motivated by an desire to bolster him reputation or to avoid he deposition or respond to the outstanding finding served to him in August.
Britney’s conservatorship case is now in the midst of legal chaos. Britney’s father hired a security manager to confess in a New York Times documentary about the shocking snooping. He claims it was done on Jamie’s orders.
Jamie’s lawyer said to the Times that Jamie’s actions were within the limits of the court’s authority.
Britney’s father was hit with a second blow when the documentary’s claims were made. He was immediately stripped of his conservatorship by a Los Angeles judge on September 29. This decision came after months of legal arguments by Rosengart, who tried to remove him from his position.
Getting to the truth: Britney’s legal team had intended to depose her father and security manager over the alleged monitored and recorded the pop princess in her bedroom, a source previously told DailyMail.com
Last week, Jamie was reportedly dropped as a client by the his law firm, Holland & Knight, which represented Jamie for years during his daughter’s conservatorship case.
‘Litigator Mathew Rosengart has asserted numerous times that he is going to investigate and sue Jamie,’ a source close to the situation told Page Six on Wednesday. Jamie will have to defend the conservatorship and be adverse to any parties if/when that happens.
Jamie’s lead counsel, Vivian Lee Thoreen, reportedly told her client he’ll ‘need a different litigator and that she and H&K weren’t interested in that role.’ He then allegedly ‘authorized’ Thoreen to ‘help him find a strong litigator.’
Documents obtained by NBC showed that Alex Weingarten, a partner in the litigation department at Willkie Farr & Gallagher accepted the new role.
Rosengart said that it was not clear at this time whether Mr. Spears’s decision to reverse his position was motivated by a desire either to bolster or avoid his deposition or respond to the outstanding discovery made in August. Rosengart was referring to Jamie Spears support for ending conservatorship
‘Jamie is pleased with the work done by H&K,’ a source told us. Vivian and Jamie remain in touch throughout the transition.
Another source said that a ‘suspended conservator’ – which is what Jamie is – ‘puts all [H&K’s]There are also higher fees at stake
The source explained that they don’t want the money to pay for this anymore as fees that you’ve already gotten and future fees that may be due from the estate may be disgorged.
According to the insider, Britney’s lawyer did not file to end her conservatorship after Britney tried to petition the court for termination. Jamie filed to end the conservatorship in support of his daughter’s wishes.
Spears gave a 23-minute emotional testimony in June to Judge Brenda Penny in Los Angeles. She asked for her freedom from the 13-year-old conservatorship her father, Jamie, had held over her personal and financial decisions.
Her side: In June, Spears gave an emotional, 23-minute testimony during a hearing in a Los Angeles court where she pleaded with Judge Brenda Penny for freedom by ending the 13-year conservatorship she’s been under where her father, Jamie, has held the power over all of her personal and financial decisions following her multiple involuntary holds in psychiatric hospitals (Jamie pictured with Lynne Spears)
Britney said in shocking testimony: “I’ve lied and told everyone I’m OK and that I’m happy.” It’s a liar. I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized. Fake it until you make it, but I’m here to tell you the truth. I’m not happy. I can’t fall asleep. I’m depressed. I cry every single day.
Spears stated she did not feel that she was heard at all the time she spoke to court in 2019.
She said, “I want changes and I want them to go forward.” ‘I deserve changes. I was told that I must sit down and have my conservatorship reexamined if I want to end it. Ma’am! I didn’t know that I could petition the conservatorship for its termination.
“This conservatorship does me far more harm than good. I deserve a life. I have worked my entire life. I deserve a two- to three-year vacation.
Britney got one of her wishes granted when Jamie was removed from the conservatorship at the end September. This was a major legal victory for Britney in her quest to freedom.
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