Britney Spears loses court battle against her father, who will continue to control her estate
The singer, who has been under her father's legal guardianship for 13 years, publicly denounced last week that it was "abusive and absurd"
BarcelonaA Los Angeles Superior Court judge has denied a petition to dismiss Britney Spears's father as guardian of the heritage of the famous American singer, local media collected by the Efe agency reported this Thursday. The court decision has been released just a week after the hearing of the petition filed by Spears, whose fortune is estimated at about 60 million dollars. The decision states that the pop star's estate must continue to be controlled and preserved in part by her father, Jamie Spears.
The Baby, one more time singer filed last week to end the legal guardianship her father has controlled her life for 13 years, calling it "abusive" and "absurd". "This guardianship is paying the salary of many people. I'm fed up", the singer said in court in Los Angeles during a telephone intervention full of blunt statements like: "I'm not happy", "I can not sleep" or "I felt drugged". This is the first time that Spears publicly opposed the control that her father exercises over public and private aspects of his life by a court decision dating back to 2008, after a very troubled stage of his life.
Meanwhile, James Spears recently asked the Los Angeles court to investigate the allegations made by the artist in his statement last week. The pop star's guardian handed over documents Tuesday night in which he claims he has had no power over Britney in recent years and asked for an investigation into his "serious allegations of forced labor, forced medical therapy, inadequate medical care and deprivation of personal rights", many of which he made against himself.
The open conflict between the singer and her father has generated a movement on social networks in support of what was one of the most popular American artists of the late last century. Thus, the slogan #FreeBritney has taken a new momentum this year after the premiere of the documentary film Framing Britney, a film produced by the New York Times which reviews the most controversial aspects of the artist's career.