Talk it out, Britney lawyers told - Oct 12 2007
The judge in Britney Spears’ custody battle has told both sides to talk things over after the troubled singer sought expanded visitation rights.

LA Superior Court commissioner Scott Gordon told lawyers for Spears and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, to spend 45 minutes talking about what role Spears’ mother and other relatives might play in visits with the children.

Neither Spears, 25, nor Federline, 29, was in court for the hearing.

Spears filed an emergency court motion seeking to expand visitation rights with her children, Sean Preston, two, and one-year-old Jayden James last night.

During the hearing, Spears’ lawyer, Anne Kiley, requested a modification of the current custody order to allow overnight stays. She argued that the visits were critical for the children to bond with their mother.

"I do think it is an emergency for them not to have overnights with their mother, which they’ve always had," Ms Kiley said.

"What possible concern can he (Federline) have if there are monitors present?" she asked.

Ms Kiley said that Spears’ mother would be interested in acting as a monitor and lawyers for both sides alluded to a warming of relations between Spears and her family.

On October 1, the superior court commissioner ordered Spears to relinquish custody of her children following concerns about drug and alcohol use.

He later granted her some visitation rights, but a monitor must watch her when she is with her children and the visits could be cut short if the monitor decides any behaviour or action endangers the children.

Britney told to report to police - Oct 10 2007
Britney Spears has been ordered by a judge to report to a Los Angeles police station over an alleged hit-and-run.

Commissioner Rebecca Omens said the 25-year-old must be fingerprinted and photographed before October 25, when she is required to appear in court.

Britney was charged last month with hit-and-run and driving without a valid licence after she allegedly crashed her car into another in a car park in August.

She was not present for the arraignment.

She was represented by attorney Michael Flanagan, who said his client "must go to any LA police station for fingerprints and mug shots".

"She will do that, but I don’t know when," Flanagan told the celebrity website CelebTV.com.

The charges relate to an August 6 car park crash during which paparazzi filmed Britney apparently steering her car into another vehicle as she tried to turn into a space in Studio City.

After assessing the damage to her own car, a paparazzi video shows her apparently walking away.

The owner of the other car, Kim Robard-Rifkin, filed a police report three days after the incident.

She learned it was Britney who had allegedly hit her car through a video posted online. 

Britney’s video to be shown - Oct 7 2007
Britney Spears is reportedly going to release her first music video in more than two years.

The video, for her new single Gimme More, which is currently the most downloaded song on iTunes, will be shown exclusively on MTV TRL at 3.30pm ET on Monday, the network’s spokesperson said to People.com.

In it, the singer plays a sexy brunette pole dancer and a curious blonde watching her.

Like videos for her previous sexy hits, I’m A Slave For You and Boys, this one is just as raunchy.

In the video, a toned ’Bad Girl’ Britney, sporting a tattoo on her bicep and dressed in a black leather vest and skimpy panties over ripped fishnet stockings, dances erotically around a pole and up against a mirror. She flips her hair as special effects lights flash around her.