Britney Spears
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: McComb, Mississippi, United States, 02 December 2020
Britney avoids trial after pay-out - Oct 26 2007
Britney Spears has avoided a criminal hit-and-run trial by paying for damages after a crash, but still faces a charge of driving without a licence, a court official has ruled.
Britney was not required to attend the hearing on the misdemeanour charges stemming from an August 6 car park mishap.
LA Superior Court Commissioner Susan Speer dismissed the hit-and-run charge after a lawyer for the pop star said his client had paid an undisclosed amount to a woman whose car was hit in a California car park.
A charge of driving without a licence was not dismissed, and a pre-trial hearing was scheduled for November 26.
The commissioner accepted a not guilty plea entered on Spears’ behalf by lawyer Michael Flanagan.
Britney regains visiting rights to sons - Oct 22 2007
Troubled pop princess Britney Spears has regained temporary visitation rights to her sons, her lawyer has said.
"Yes, she has visitation with the children," Anne Kiley said, without elaborating.
The US singer was seen driving with sons Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one, on Saturday in California, People magazine reported on its website.
A presumed court-appointed monitor was in the passenger seat, and the star’s sons were in the back.
A court commissioner told Britney on Wednesday that she may not visit her two children without a parenting coach present until she complied with a court order.
The ruling was the latest move in a custody battle between Britney and ex-husband, wannabe rap star Kevin Federline.
Among other things, the singer was ordered to undergo random weekly drug testing.
A hearing in the matter was scheduled for October 26.
Britney runs over photographer’s foot - Oct 19 2007
Pop star Britney Spears ran over a photographer’s foot in her car hours after losing visitation rights to her children, it was reported.
Britney was driving out of a Beverly Hills medical building car park yesterday (Thursday) afternoon when the incident happened, according to celebrity website Hollywood.TV.
Police in Beverly Hills said complaint had been filed.
Video on the website shows elements of the incident, though not the tyre actually rolling over the cameraman’s foot.
It shows Brit beginning to pull out of the car park when her car is surrounded by more than a dozen celebrity photographers. The car comes to a stop.
The star honks and the car lurches forward a few feet -- when the photographer is apparently hit.
Shouting is heard, and the camera jerks around as fellow photographers apparently help a man up.
Britney drives off. Seconds later, video shows what appears to be a tyre mark on the unidentified paparazzo’s sock. The man, wearing sandals with white socks, doesn’t respond to questions from the cameraman but instead walks off without any apparent problems.
Earlier yesterday, Britney learned she cannot even visit her young sons, who are in the custody of ex-husband Kevin Federline, until she complies with a court order.
Court suspends Brit’s visitation rights - Oct 18 2007
Troubled pop star Britney Spears cannot visit her two young children until she complies with a court order, a US court commissioner has ruled.
"Petitioner’s (Spears’) visitation with the minor children is suspended pending the petitioner’s compliance with the court orders," Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon wrote in an order which was dated yesterday (Wednesday).
The ruling in Los Angeles followed an emergency hearing, the latest in a custody battle between Britney and her ex-husband, wannabe rap star Kevin Federline.
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During the early years of her career Britney made millions thanks to merchandising deals and successful hits. But she faced controversy throughout with rumours of plastic surgery and feuds with other stars. Her third album, which saw her take a sexier and more adult turn, was a relative disappointment while her critically panned but box office friendly debut movie Crossroads was a fleeting highlight. Meanwhile her long relationship with Justin Timberlake came to an end in 2002 amid claims that her reputation as a virgin was false and in fact that she had cheated on the N*Sync star?Britney responded by sharing a kiss with idol Madonna on stage at the MTV Awards ? an act which saw the pair criticized more than admired.
The kiss signaled the end of Britney?s pop-childhood and with the release of In The Zone and the hit single Toxic she began building a new fanbase. A drunken Las Vegas wedding to childhood friend Jason Alexander ended in annulment after just fifty five hours but, rather than concentrate on her career, Britney continued leaning on the lovelife self destruct button. She, despite advice to the contrary, married dancer, aspiring rapper and all round rat-faced bad boy Kevin Federline in a trailer trash wedding in 2004 and within months announced she was pregnant.
Having given birth to son, Sean Preston, Britney seems to have put her career on hold despite the success of a greatest hits album and the launch of her fragrance, Curious. Meanwhile rumours persist about the state of her marriage to Federline with the press accusing him of taking no interest in his wife and son and of cheating on the singing star.
December 2007