In her conservatorship case, Britney Spears won’t be required to take a deposition, a Los Angeles judge decided on Wednesday.
The pop star, according to Spears’ lawyer Mathew Rosengart, “feels traumatised by what she went through,” and answering questions from Jamie Spears’ lawyer Alex Weingarten under oath would “retraumatize” her.
Weingarten announced his intention to challenge the ruling, telling Judge Brenda Penny that Jamie “is proud and will remain proud of what he did for, not to, his daughter” throughout his tenure as her conservator from the beginning of the formal arrangement in February 2008 until his termination in September 2021.
After Britney, 40, called her conservatorship “abusive” in a passionate court speech in June 2021, Rosengart and Weingarten had been attempting for months to have the clients of the other attorneys deposed.
The conservatorship of Britney Spears case returned to court on Wednesday.
Former federal prosecutor Rosengart asserts that Jamie, 70, gained at least $6 million from Britney’s estate.
Jamie has additionally been charged with spying on Britney by allegedly listening in on her phone calls and hiding an audio recorder in her bedroom, both of which he has denied doing.
Weingarten argued in response that Britney should have been deposed because she has made damaging claims about her father in court and on social media.
No deposition will be required of Spears.
Instagram/Britney Spears However, as Rosengart noted, Britney had little to no information to share after being deprived of her personal, financial, and medical rights during her nearly 14-year conservatorship, which was established after she faced a number of challenges in the public eye.
Rosengart told reporters outside the courthouse on Wednesday, “She wants to move on with her life, but that man, her father, her flesh and blood, does not want that.” “It is morally abhorrent that her father, or any father, would want to take a harassing deposition of their daughter.”
Britney, whose conservatorship was ended in November 2021, obtained another legal victory earlier this month when Penny mandated that Jamie take a deposition by August 12 and turn over all of the documents he was in possession of. (Weingarten claimed on Wednesday that a date had been set, but he kept it to himself in court.)
The judge tentatively ruled during the hearing on Wednesday that Robin Greenhill, a member of Britney’s Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group, and Lou Taylor, the singer’s former business manager, will both be deposed and required to turn over documents pertaining to electronic surveillance.
After the hearing, Tri Star’s attorney Scott Edelman told Page Six that the company had a “great day” and that the company “looks forward to being deposed, advancing this process, and ensuring that the full truth is finally shared.”
Prior to the “Toxic” singer’s conservatorship, Rosengart asserted that Tri Star made at least $18 million from Britney.
The owners of Tri Star, Lou Taylor (right) and Robin Greenhill (second from left), have denied any wrongdoing on the part of Spears’ management of the company.
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Nevertheless, Greenhill allegedly assisted Jamie in surveilling the Grammy winner, according to Alex Vlasov, a former member of Britney’s security team. Another of Tri Star’s attorneys, Charles Harder, called this claim “false.”
After being released from her conservatorship, Britney married her longtime partner, Sam Asghari, and recorded her first new song in six years, a “Tiny Dancer” duet with Elton John. Page Six exclusively revealed that the song will be released in August.