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Britney’s mum repeats allegations against her daughter’s former ‘manager’

By | Published on Monday 29 October 2012

Britney Spears

Britney Spears’ mum Lynne repeated allegations against her daughter’s one-time manager in court on Friday as Sam Lutfi’s legal action against the Spears family continued.

As previously reported, Lutfi, who was very close to Britney Spears during her very public mental breakdown in 2007/8, is suing his former friend’s family over allegations Lynne defamed him in a 2008 book, that Britney’s father Jamie assaulted him the same year, and that he is due a cut of the popstar’s earnings from that time because he worked as her manager.

Mrs Spears told the courts on Friday that Lutfi himself admitted to her in January 2008 to crushing drugs into her daughter’s food and disabling the pop star’s phone lines during her breakdown. She says Lutfi claimed he was feeding her daughter drugs in a bid to help her sleep. The Spears parents blame Lutfi for worsening their daughter’s mental well-being during that time, by cutting her off from friends and family and making her more dependent on drugs. Lutfi maintains he was trying to help Britney overcome both her drug addition and inner demons.

Although conceding that she was already estranged from her daughter when Lutfi entered Britney’s life, and admitting that she didn’t contact police over her fears regards his caring for her daughter, she says that she became increasingly worried the more Lutfi seemed to control Britney’s life.

As previously reported, the Spears family deny both Lutfi’s defamation and assault allegations, while claiming that the claimant did not have a legitimate management contract with Britney, and did not fulfil any of the roles you would expect a manager to handle, so has no legitimate claim over the popstar’s earnings from that time.

Britney herself will not testify at the court case, and insiders say friends and family are trying to stop the pop star, who has since overcome her personal issues and begun to rebuild her pop career, from reading coverage of it, to save her from having to relive the events of 2007 and 2008.



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