Netflix just debuted the latest Britney Spears conservatorship documentary, “Britney vs. Spears,” and while it does bring up a bunch of stuff already revealed in previous docs, investigative journalist Jenny Eliscu and documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, do uncover some new info.
Revelations include:
- Initial paperwork requesting Britney’s conservatorship lists the reason for it as “orders related to dementia placement,” which isn’t normally common for young people.
- The doctor who signed off on Britney’s alleged condition was Dr. J. Edward Spar, a geriatric psychiatrist, even though Brit was only 27 at the time.
- Even though she allegedly had dementia, Britney was able to be back at work on the set of “How I Met Your Mother” just two months later.
- The five-day window usually given to contest a conservatorship was waived in Britney’s case allegedly because her then-manager Sam Lutfi was considered dangerous, with Brit’s parents convinced he was putting drugs in her food. He is interviewed in the doc and insists that didn’t happen. He says he was used by Jamie Spears as a “scapegoat” in order to prevent Britney from contesting the conservatorship.
- Britney’s chosen lawyer at the time of the conservatorship, Adam Streisand, was removed because he planned to argue that a conservator should be an independent professional, not a family member. When he expressed that, the judge told him Britney did “not have the capacity to retain counsel and have an attorney-client relationship.”
- Streisand says Britney did not think court-appointed lawyer Sam Ingham was advocating for her enough, and since he was being paid by Jamie, he would have the tendency to cooperate with Jamie.
- In a voicemail Britney allegedly left to a lawyer in 2009 she said her father “threatened” to take her children away.
- During Britney’s four-year Las Vegas residency, Jamie paid her an $8,000 a month allowance, while he earned $2.1 million in tour revenues, as well as a monthly salary of $16,000.
Source: New York Post