A former FBI special agent corroborated a claim that Britney Spears’ father spied on the pop star for years while acting as her conservator.
Sherine Ebadi, who worked on fraud and corruption cases for over 10 years at the federal agency, claimed in a declaration filed Friday in Los Angeles and obtained by Page Six that Jamie Spears “engaged in and directed others to engage in unconscionable violations of [Britney’s] privacy and civil liberties.”
Ebadi alleged in the filing that her findings “raise criminal implications” for Jamie, who oversaw his daughter’s personal, medical and financial affairs for the bulk of her nearly 14-year conservatorship before a judge terminated it in November 2021.
Britney’s attorney, Mathew Rosengart, submitted Ebadi’s declaration as part of a larger court filing accusing Jamie, 69, of taking more than $6 million from the 40-year-old “Toxic” singer’s estate and using “his role as conservator to further his own personal and business interests.”
Rosengart had retained Ebadi, who now works as an associate managing director in the Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice of Kroll Associates Inc., to investigate Jamie’s management of the conservatorship.
Ebadi’s declaration said she “personally debriefed and interviewed” Alex Vlasov, the whistleblower who alleged in the New York Times documentary “Controlling Britney Spears” in September that Jamie had monitored Britney’s cellphone and bugged her bedroom, and concluded that he was a “...
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