Britney Spears Released From Her Father's Guardianship After 13 Years
After months of protest, the pop star succeeds in getting a court to revoke the legal control that her father had exercised over her since 2008
At last, free from her father and her guardianship. After 13 years, Britney Spears will be able to make decisions for herself and her fortune of more than 60 million dollars (about 52 million euros). The prison in which Britney lived and the silence that surrounded her was broken in June, when the Baby One More Time interpreter recounted in a Los Angeles court the hell lived under the orders of her father. Officially, Jamie Spears stops controlling every minute and every dollar of his daughter's life. Britney Spears is 39 years old. "Free by Forty!" Exclaimed her loyal followers after hearing the sentence. She free before she turns forty.
Only in July did the singer manage to hire the lawyer of her choice to give her life back. Mathew Rosengart, the chosen lawyer, declared this Wednesday after concluding the hearing with the judge that "the nightmare" is over. "It is a good day for justice," said Rosengart, making himself heard amid the jubilant expressions of his followers. "There are those who will have to face serious accusations," he said in reference to the singer's family and environment, isolated by them for more than a decade.
In June, Britney Spears condensed in 20 minutes of exposure through Zoom more than 13 years of physical and psychological confinement. The diva said that she had not dared to take the step before because she thought that no one would believe her story. She had been tabloid meat. She still is. "I thought people would make fun of me," she confessed then herself, "but now I want to get my life back." "Enough already," said she who has never left the top of the music industry, from which she exhibited, and in which she has been held hostage by her father.
Judge Brenda Penny has appointed an accountant on Wednesday as the temporary legal guardian of the star's finances and has set a November 12 date for an upcoming hearing. It was the day that Britney Spears was closer than ever to the freedom she had been claiming for 13 years. "Your Honor, my father should be in prison," the artist said in June, when she recounted the hell her life had been. The singer's legal team then threatened to take legal action against the Spears family for the damage caused. The singer was not present this Wednesday in the courtroom. Her parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears, appeared via Zoom, along with her daughter's attorney. Those who were there from early in the morning were her followers, those who have created a movement under the slogan Free Britney (Free Britney).
Movements for the liberation of her, documentaries. A wave of protest began in 2019 when all the alarms went off. Spears was not well, no matter how much she assured that she was on her Instagram account. The last two documentaries prove it. They show the handling by one of the most famous parents on the planet of a woman who was deprived of being able to make the slightest decision about her life. For the artist's lawyer, she had to end "with the Kafkaesque nightmare imposed by her father, so that both her dignity and her most basic freedoms" were restored.
According to the latest scandalous information -revealed in the documentary in The New York Times-, the interpreter has been constantly under surveillance, even in the most private moments, as have the people closest to her. According to the New York newspaper, the star's father put a security company on the payroll to control the singer and find out everything she was talking about, not only in public but also in private, for example in his bedroom or in talks with his boyfriend and his children.
The hearing on Wednesday to present before the judge the arguments about ending the guardianship was set for January 28, but it finally arrived in the fall. Spears' father became her daughter's legal guardian in 2008, during a period marked by erratic behavior by the singer in which she lost custody of her children. Along with a trust, Jamie Spears has overseen by court decision from finances to the tiniest details of the singer's life since she suffered a nervous breakdown in the eyes of the world.
