More Mommy Time for Britney

After not seeing her boys for almost two months, Britney Spears has scored her second face-to-face visit in the past three days.
The embattled pop star received another in-home visit from one-year-old Jayden James and two-year-old Sean Preston on Monday, E! News has confirmed.
The kids were again shuttled to Spears' home in Kevin Federline's gray Dodge Viper truck, driven by Federline's longtime security guard, at around 9 a.m. They departed shortly after noon. News of the Monday sojourn was first reported by jfxonline.com.
While few details of Monday's mommy-and-me session were available, during Saturday's visit, Spears, 26, was not permitted to be alone with her sons.
Among those present at the initial visit were her father, Jamie Spears, a court-appointed monitor, a Federline bodyguard and an attorney from the Luce Forward law firm, which is handling Britney's conservatorship for Jamie Spears. It was believed all parties were on hand again for Monday's visit.
The boys have resided primarily with Federline, since October, when Spears was stripped of custody. The singer lost visitation on Jan. 3, after a custody standoff that ended with her being hospitalized and placed on a psych hold.
The recent visits were the result of negotiations between lawyers for Kevin Federline and Luce Forward last week, with Jamie Spears also sharing a large portion of the credit.
"None of this would have happened if Jamie Spears had not been involved. That's for sure," Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told E! News Friday. "He gets a lot of credit for helping make this happen. But we've worked very hard with the conservator lawyers, as well, to make this all work."
Meanwhile, lawyers for the conservatorship filed new court documents Monday, urging a judge to end a civil rights challenge to Jamie Spears' control over his daughter's financial affairs.
Attorney Jon Eardley, who claims he was hired by the troubled singer earlier this month, has argued in court documents that Britney's constitutional rights are being violated and is seeking to have her conservatorship case moved from Los Angeles Superior Court to federal court.
In their latest motion, the conservatorship attorneys argue that Eardley has both failed to prove that he legitimately represents Britney, and to meet the court's filing deadline.
They have asked that the case be immediately returned to Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz and that Eardley be forced to reimburse the approximately $43,000 in attorney fees racked up as a result of his actions.

Source: E! News

Spears' Lawyers Say Brit Ain't No Cash Register

TMZ has obtained documents filed today in Federal court in the Britney Spears conservatorship case and her lawyers have made it clear -- Brit's not the Bank of America.Jamie Spears' lawyers claim attorney Jon Eardley, who filed the motion to remove the case to Federal court, has triggered a flurry of legal moves that have already cost Brit more than $40 grand. For his part, attorney Jon Eardley claims he was retained by Britney on February 12 and has spoken with her on several occasions. He says the last time she attempted to call him, "the telephone was taken away from her, and the number was disconnected the next day." Eardley says Brit has "never been and is not now on comfortable terms with her live-in father conservator" and claims that he is "concerned for the emotional and physical safety of Britney."

Source: TMZ

Brit Back In Hiding

She's known for wigging out and acting wild at the local Mobil, but last night Britney Spears did something truly shocking -- she hid her infamous mug! Girl's got Alba-ritis!Spears put in some face time with her kids this weekend -- but apparently didn't want to do the same with the paps.

Source: TMZ

Britney Visits Her Babies Again!

While the paparazzi were sleeping off their Oscar hangovers, Tater Tot and Small Fry quietly saw their mom again Monday morning.
Britney was once again allowed to visit with her two young sons. This is the second visit within three days for Brit Brit and the kids. Before that, Spears hadn't seen her babies since the beginning of January.
Making up for lost time!
A source told OK! magazine that "It went very well. The boys are really happy to see their mom."
Britney's visit lasted from approximately 9am to Noon PT.
Even K-Fed's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, was optimistic about the visits, saying "These visitations with the boys will help to normalize the family environment. Kevin has always been rooting for Britney to regain visitation… and if these visits go well, they will ramp up over time."
Spear's camp is hoping to get visitation up to three times a week. Joining Britney at the visits are her father, Jamie Spears, Brit's psychologist, one of K-Fed's bodyguards, and the court-appointed monitor and a lawyer representing the conservatorship.
The next hearing for the ongoing custody battle is set to take place on April 9th.

Source: Perez Hilton

Jamie Lynn gets GED

On a better note than that of Britney going broke…
Her little sis, Jamie Lynn Spears has gotten her high school diploma!
The pregnant sixteen-year-old passed the GED exam last month and apparently scored pretty well on reading comprehension. She is now looking to take the ACT college entrance test.
Once she pops the baby out, let's hope that academia wins out over partying or popping out more babies!

Source: Perez Hilton

In the Drama of Britney Spears, a Show Business Fortune Is at Risk

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears’s klieg-lighted meltdown sent her to the psychiatric ward twice, and left her long-divorced parents, her brother, and a SWAT team of lawyers and accountants grappling with how to protect her from predatory hangers-on, from the paparazzi who dog her every move and from her own erratic behavior.
Beyond the psychodrama being played out on tabloid covers, celebrity-news shows and gossip Web sites is another serious subject for the Spears family: how to protect the millions of dollars that Ms. Spears, 26, has amassed over a decade as one of America’s biggest pop music, merchandise and endorsement engines.
It’s impossible to say how much money she has. Published estimates of her net worth have varied wildly, up to $125 million. But one of her former financial advisers, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of his relationship with his client, estimated her current fortune at around $50 million.
That’s an enormous amount, but, as Michael Jackson proved, being a wealthy cultural phenomenon doesn’t make one impervious to financial disaster. Celebrities, like athletes, often have a small window to make their money, typically at a young age when they are probably not thinking about the future.
As a result, many child stars like Macaulay Culkin are dragged into family squabbles over money while others — too numerous to mention — end up looking to revive their careers long after the money has run out.
Ms. Spears will not run out of money anytime soon, but her longer-term prospects have taken a hit in the last year because of bizarre behavior — her public scenes, questionable parenting skills and a shaky comeback performance at the MTV Awards — and her tortured personal life after her divorce from Kevin Federline, formerly one of her backup dancers.
According to court documents, her everyday finances seem to have fallen into disrepair as well. A Feb. 14 court filing put it starkly: “Members of Britney’s household,” it said, “have been paying for her basic necessities, including medicine, food, and other day-to-day needs.”
On Feb. 1, the day after Ms. Spears was involuntarily admitted for treatment at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, her estranged father, Jamie Spears, was named her co-conservator, giving him control over her treatment, security, visitors and daily life.
Mr. Spears is sharing oversight of her estate with an independent lawyer, Andrew M. Wallet, to dispel the notion that Ms. Spears’s parents were making a grab for their daughter’s fortune. With the court’s permission, they immediately fired her business manager.
Another team of lawyers was hired for the conservators and quickly set out to assess the financial damage. Yet another lawyer was appointed by the probate court, as is routine, to look out solely for Ms. Spears’s interests. Ms. Spears’s brother Bryan, along with a lawyer, were given control of her revocable trust, which contains all her liquid assets, so they could begin paying her bills. And Ms. Spears’s criminal lawyer, Blair Berk, was said to be overseeing the whole Humpty Dumpty-like effort.
All the independent lawyers aside, one cannot ignore money as a motivating factor as the estranged Spears parents joined forces. Since she first became a pop star in 1999 on the strength of her hit “Baby One More Time,” she has been the primary breadwinner for the entire Spears clan.
The earning power of her 16-year-old sister, Jamie Lynn, the star of “Zooey 101” on Nickelodeon, probably suffered in December when she announced her pregnancy, which also helped sink her mother’s deal to write a book on parenting.
What little light has been shed on Ms. Spears’s finances came last May, when part of an income statement surfaced in her divorce case. It put her average monthly earnings at more than $730,000, mainly from royalties, but said she earned only $13,000 a month from investments. (Her spending, including $102,000 a month for entertainment, gifts and vacation and $16,000 for clothes, was more eye-catching.)
The nature of her investments might be unclear as well. Accountants are trying to learn whether her money was moved into overly risky investment vehicles, whether any business deals need to be undone and whether her assets were outright looted. (Her father filed a report of grand theft, according to The Los Angeles Times, asserting that paintings, jewelry and other valuables had been stripped from her Beverly Hills home).
Though she is said to own large swaths of Louisiana timberland, Ms. Spears is not a real estate tycoon in the classic Hollywood sense: she owns a house in a gated hilltop community near Mulholland Drive but listed it for sale a year ago at an asking price of $7.5 million, scarcely more than the $7.2 million she paid for it.
She sold a house in Malibu last summer for $10 million after paying $6.9 million for it in 2004, and she unloaded her Lower Manhattan condominium for $4 million in 2006, after buying it for $3 million in 2002.
Ms. Spears’s career first began to sputter after her last major tour was cut short, nearly four years ago. Based on the strength of her first two albums, “Baby One More Time” and “Oops! I Did It Again,” she received nearly a $10 million advance for her 2003 album “In the Zone” and a net earning of $6.5 million after production costs, according to reports published after her prenuptial agreement was leaked.
By contrast, she was paid $4 million for “Blackout,” her latest album, according to people briefed on her affairs, but she probably took home only a fraction of that for the album, which was more than a year in the making. Ms. Spears’s label, Jive Records, continues to promote singles from “Blackout,” without her active participation. (The recording industry has much experience with artists who have become incapacitated or unavailable or dead.)
But digital music has been punishing for performers like Ms. Spears, one of the last to sell more than 10 million copies of an album before the shift to downloads. The first two “Blackout” singles, “Gimme More” and “Piece of Me,” have sold a combined 1.54 million copies through digital services like iTunes, but industry experts say Ms. Spears might collect only $150,000 from that source.
Compared with touring, albums are loss-leaders for pop stars of her magnitude. Ms. Spears’s five major tours have sold some $140 million in tickets, according to PollStar, a music industry service. Her take, after deducting costs for arena rentals, equipment, crew and all those backup dancers, is much smaller.
The real money is made not from ticket sales but from the sale of T-shirts, key chains, dolls and countless other Britney-branded goods.
“It’s a gray area nobody ever focuses on,” said Steve Lunt, who oversaw Ms. Spears’s musical endeavors as a vice president at Jive until 2006. But, he said, merchandise revenue could be as much as or more than her share of ticket proceeds. “And that’s unadulterated profit margin.”
At her peak, Ms. Spears earned well over $12 million for endorsing companies like Toyota, Nabisco, Kirin beer, Sketchers, Clairol and McDonald’s; $9 million was from Pepsi alone. And Ms. Spears still gets at least $2 million to $3 million a year from a perfume deal she signed with Elizabeth Arden in 2004. The company continues to build on what it has made worldwide from three Britney perfume lines. There is particularly strong demand for them in Dubai, the company says.
While some of these deals remain in place, it is hard to imagine a company seeking her endorsement now except for pure shock value.
For now, the people around Ms. Spears are occupied with more basic questions — about how she will live, rather than whether she might perform again. Lawyers and her parents are trying to find the appropriate middle ground between confining Ms. Spears physically and allowing her too much freedom for her own good.
This is not an easy balance to strike, said one expert on conservatorships for the infirm, Marc B. Hankin, who at one point represented Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. “With good social support and good pharmacologists, you can help people come back to life, and a lot of people will never come back without that,” he said.
If Ms. Spears regains her health — and her desire to tour — will there still be an opportunity?
A return would require corporate sponsors, who for the moment would be likely to shun Ms. Spears but who might come around, according to Mr. Lunt, the record executive.
“My gut feeling is people will still want to be associated with her,” he said. “Everyone thinks there’s going to be a comeback at some point. You could mention her name in Afghanistan, Israel, Greece or South Africa, and everyone knows who she is. You can’t buy that.”
The people around Ms. Spears say she is not so far gone as a star. “She’s not someone who can’t put the tools back together and function,” said one such person, who because of a relationship with Ms. Spears spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“Because we’re so incredibly fickle as a society, the perfect entertainment is someone who’s in the bottomless pit and rising again,” the person said. “If she’s together, fit, beautiful and on her game, it’ll be just printing money.”

Source: NY Times

Is Britney Going Broke???

We may have another Michael Jackson on our hands!
The very respectable New York Times has written a very lengthy piece on the state of Britney Spears' financial affairs.
Once a top earner, the recovering mother of two is now grossly spending more than she's earning.
The Times paints her fortune as being "at risk."
Poor Brit. She just can't catch a break!
Spears' current financial state can't be solely blamed on ton many expenditures, though.
Click here to read the article and find out how it all went wrong!

Source: Perez Hilton

Happy Reunion

X17 XCLUSIVE - HAPPY REUNION!!!
So here's how the reunion went down:
The boys left Kevin Federline's at 9 am, driven by Lonnie, Kevin's bodyguard, in the gray Dodge Viper truck.
Per the legal agreement that Brit's dad Jamie helped craft and which was approved by Commissioner Scott Gordon late last night, the boys could visit Brit only if certain rules were followed.
The rules were: several people had to be with Briney and the boys while the visit took place only within the confines of her living room. The list of people included Jamie, a court-ordered monitor, a psychiatrist, KFed's security and a lawyer fromLuce-Forward who act as half of her conservator team.
Britney was not allowed to take the boys away from the common area, where the several observers were stationed. This requirement was in place because we all remember happened on January 3, when Britney took Jayden into her bathroom for three hours. Britney hadn't seen the boys since that day. She's had very infrequent phone chats with Sean and Jayden since then.
The visit was to last no more than three hours and, in fact, the boys left Britney's promptly at noon.
Jamie kept his promise! After weeks of legal haggling, he was able to get his daughter reunited with her kids -- kudos, Jamie!

see pics: here

Source: x17online

:: Britney Reunites With Her Angels ::

See them Here

Source: BritneysBabies

Britney's Reunion - A Look Back

Britney's first visit with her sons in nearly six weeks may not have been as personal as she might have liked - but she looked so happy that we can't resist taking another look!
All the action started shortly after 8 AM, when we caught Kevin bundling up Sean and Jayden to be sent over to Britney's.
Once the boys arrived around 9 AM, Jamie quickly scooped them up and took them inside - to Britney' waiting arms!
Unfortunately, the terms of the visitation agreement reached by Jamie and Kevin kept Britney and the kids inside, under the watchful eyes of a whole team of folks - including her father Jamie, a court-ordered monitor, a psychiatrist, a member of Kevin's security team, and one of Britney's lawyers from her ongoing struggle over conservatorship.
The agreement was so strict, in fact, that Brit couldn't even leave the living room with the kids - we didn't see her again until we saw her bringing Jayden out to be taken back to Kevin's!
Despite all the restrictions, however, the boys' visit clearly did Britney a world of good - even from far away, you could see how happy having her boys back in her arms made her!
And we were relieved to see that all the restrictions weren't interfering with her relationship with her family - later that night, she stepped out with her father for dinner at Mastro's!
We've got more pix of the big reunion after the jump, too - make sure to check 'em out! Here they come!
The boys are back in town!
Too bad Sean and Jayden didn't get a chance to play on their playset...
...but it's fun to visit with mommy, too!
See all the pics here
Source: X17

Daddy-Daughter Dinner Date!

We're used to seeing Britney Spears stepping out to grab a bite with a male companion - but we like it best when the companion in question happens to be her dad!
Yes, Britney and Jamie dined together at Mastro's Steakhouse last night. The dynamic duo kept it low-key, although they certainly appeared to be enjoying their time together - we even caught Britney grinning like the Cheshire Cat as she and Jamie left!
(It's probably a good thing Jamie was around, too - if for no other reason than to help save Britney from showing off more than intended when she got in the car in that hot little purple number!)
Britney got that purp!
Hot!
That dress is certainly on the way up...
Good thing Brit's got Jamie there to watch out for her!
See pice here
Source: X17