Britney Spears’s Lawyer Calls Alleged Battery Incident “Overblown Sensational Tabloid Fodder”

Britney Spears’s housekeeper has accused her of battery after she allegedly slapped a telephone out of her worker’s hand. However in line with the pop star’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, that is nothing however a sensationalized occasion tailored for the tabloids.

A spokesperson for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Workplace instructed E! News that officers responded to a name from Spears’s dwelling on August 16. In accordance with E!, the worker is claiming the singer slapped a telephone out of her fingers after “confronting her” when she returned from a go to to the veterinarian. The worker additionally claims Spears “hit her hand,” however she was “not damage.” Sheriff’s deputies reportedly arrived on the scene solely to be taught that the housekeeper had already left the property and gone to the native station in Thousand Oaks, California, to report the alleged battery incident. The spokesperson mentioned {that a} criticism was filed with the sheriff’s workplace, and deputies tried to succeed in Spears for remark however “she wouldn’t communicate with them.” Any outcomes from that investigation will reportedly be despatched to the Ventura County District Legal professional’s Workplace, which is able to then contemplate whether or not or to not cost the Grammy winner with misdemeanor battery.

Nevertheless, Rosengart defined in an announcement to Us Weekly that he thinks the entire incident “is overblown sensational tabloid fodder—nothing greater than a manufactured ‘he mentioned, she mentioned’ relating to a mobile phone, with no hanging and clearly no harm in any way. Anybody could make an accusation, however this could have been closed instantly.”

These allegations additionally come within the midst of Spears’s ongoing authorized battle over her conservatorship. Final week, the pop star’s father, Jamie Spears, finally agreed to remove himself as conservator of her estate after Rosengart petitioned for him to take action. After saying, “There are, in truth, no precise grounds for suspending or eradicating Mr. Spears because the Conservator of the Property,” Jamie’s lawyer wrote, “However, whilst Mr. Spears is the unremitting goal of unjustified assaults, he doesn’t imagine {that a} public battle along with his daughter over his persevering with service as her conservator can be in her greatest pursuits. So, regardless that he should contest this unjustified Petition for his elimination, Mr. Spears intends to work with the Court docket and his daughter’s new lawyer to arrange for an orderly transition to a brand new conservator.”

In an announcement, Rosengart responded, “We’re happy however not essentially stunned that Mr. Spears and his lawyer lastly acknowledge that he should be eliminated. We’re disenchanted, nonetheless, by their ongoing shameful and reprehensible assaults on Ms. Spears and others.” He additionally famous that simply because Jamie agreed to step down doesn’t imply they’re completed inspecting the position he performed on this conservatorship. “We sit up for persevering with our vigorous investigation into the conduct of Mr. Spears, and others, over the previous 13 years, whereas he reaped tens of millions of {dollars} from his daughter’s property, and I sit up for taking Mr. Spears’s sworn deposition within the close to future,” he mentioned. “Within the interim, slightly than making false accusations and taking low cost photographs at his personal daughter, Mr. Spears ought to step apart instantly.”

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