Britney Spears wants a judge to pull the plug on her dad’s ability to tap her fortune for his legal representation as she investigates his purported financial “self-dealing” and alleged surveillance inside her home during her 13-year conservatorship.
In a new filing ahead of a court showdown Wednesday, the pop star and her lawyer Mathew Rosengart claimed Jamie Spears already has “siphoned” more than $6 million from her coffers while engaging in “abusive and bullying conduct” that included secretly recording her in her bedroom.
To bolster their claims, they submitted a sworn statement Sherine Ebadi, a former FBI agent now probing Jamie’s alleged misconduct on the pop star’s behalf. In her declaration, Ebadi said she “personally debriefed and interviewed” whistleblower Alex Vlasov after he previously told the New York Times his former security company boss placed a hidden listening device in Britney’s bedroom while working for Jamie.
“Based upon my training and experience, including as a Special Agent with the FBI, and having debriefed and interviewed many hundreds of individuals and witnesses, I concluded that Mr. Vlasov was highly-credible,” Ebadi wrote in her statement signed Jan. 13 and obtained by Rolling Stone.
Citing Ebadi’s declaration, and claiming Jamie is using “obfuscation and stonewalling” to hinder their investigation, Britney and Rosengart now argue Jamie should be forced to pay his own legal fees out of money he’s already received from the conservatorship....
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