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Judge Brenda Penny yesterday put an end to the nearly 14-year-old drama that took the shine off one of the biggest pop stars. The custody that restricted Spears’ personal life and career has been dissolved. The hearing was the conclusion to months of scandalous revelations of abusive family dynamics and the exploitation of an artist in a story whose main villain is Jamie and Lynne Spears, the 39-year-old singer’s parents.
Known the long-awaited decision, Spears used her Instagram account and wrote. “I can not believe it ! Again … the best day of my life ”.
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Judge Penny’s decision was not opposed by either party. At the end of September, the California Supreme Court authority had described the custody situation as “untenable”. “It reflects a toxic environment that requires suspension as a guardian of Jamie spears“Penny said then before removing him from office.
‘Toxic’, one of the singer’s greatest hits, was also the word that her lawyer crushed over and over again during her arguments before the magistrate. “His father has been abusive, cruel and toxic,” he sentenced Mathew rosengart, the singer’s lawyer. The arrival of this lawyer in her life changed everything for Spears, who initially had to fight against the guardianship with a public defender because her legal guardians did not authorize a budget to hire a better defense.
That decision was contested by the father’s defense, following a strategy started in August 2020. “There is no evidence whatsoever to support this suspension. His record is impeccable, “he argued. Vivian Thoreen before the court. Jamie tried to remain in control of his daughter’s personal and financial decisions, a power he had exercised since 2008. In 2019, however, he stopped being her manager and concentrated on managing the artist’s money. It was that same year that Britney put her career on “indefinite” hiatus. He canceled the series of concerts he was offering in Las Vegas due to his father’s alleged health problems and entered a mental health center again. He has not performed in public since October 2018.
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In June, at an unusual hearing requested by the victim, Spears told the world what her life was like under the yoke of guardianship. “I am not happy. I can not sleep. I am angry and depressed. I cry every day, “Britney told Judge Penny by phone, saying that everyone responsible for her condition” should be in prison. ” “I want to get married and have a baby, but I have an IUD so that I don’t get pregnant”, implying that legal custody prevents her from having more than the two children she had with the dancer Kevin Federline, whom he divorced in 2006.
About her mother, Britney said “she secretly ruined my life,” according to People magazine.
Yesterday, it was finally Judge Penny who concluded the Spears family drama, which lasted thirteen years. Britney finally has her independence day.
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