Troubled pop star Britney Spears has denied rumours that she is expecting a child with her boyfriend, British-born photographer Adnan Ghalib. Federline gives Britney Spears visiting rights
Sources close to the singer have been forced to comment on speculation that the 26-year-old was pregnant with her third child after reports said Ghalib had told friends in Britain that he was going to become a father.
"Britney has put on weight because the doctors have switched her prescription," a source was quoted in The Sun. The rumours first started in January when the couple were pictured at a pharmacy buying a home pregnancy test kit.
Spears's 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn is currently expecting her first child with boyfriend Casey Aldridge. The pop star, who spiralled out of control following an acrimonious split with husband Kevin Federline, has recently been allowed to see her two sons for the first time in two months.
Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan said that the former couple have agreed to modify the court order that stripped Spears of her visitation rights. In early January, the singer was taken from her home by paramedics following a stand-off with Federline.
Police were called after she refused to hand over the boys and she was briefly hospitalised. She has since lost all visitation rights.
Britney Spears marked a relatively quiet President's Day weekend, with her Saturday spent in the company of her father and her assistant Brett inside her Beverly Hills home. When his daughter did go out, Jamie Spears, who has been appointed a conservator in charge of Britney's well-being and her finances, accompanied her to dinner, with the two joining a small party at Citrus at Social Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard.
Outside chef Michel Richards's new restaurant, a photographer asked the pop star, 26, how she was doing. "Good," she replied gently. At dinner, "she seemed totally normal and level-headed, and everyone with her seemed calm," said a customer in the restaurant. "She was with a table of five people." When she left, she exited through a side door, and took a coffee cup with her. The occasion was a stark contrast to exactly a year ago, when a frenzied Spears went into a San Fernando Valley salon and shaved off her hair.
Dressed for Dinner
On Saturday, she wore a long chocolate-brown jersey dress with spaghetti straps, accessorized with silver jewelry including drop earrings, a necklace and a watch. The previous day, the singer spent time inside some West Hollywood boutiques, where she browsed rather than bought.
The weekend also brought an invitation from her Beverly Hills neighbor, Heidi Klum – who said Spears could come live with her, husband Seal and their three children as a means to help get her life back on track.
A lawyer, claiming to represent Britney Spears filed papers in Los Angeles earlier today asking to take the case of her conservatorship to federal court. Jon Eardley, filed papers calling into question the legality of conservatorship of the pop singer, which was put into place on February 1.
Among his arguments are that “Spears has not received the benefit of a single hearing before the court; yet she has been stripped of her right to access counsel of her choosing and to meet with her counsel in a private meeting,” the filing read.The filing claims Spears cannot “associate freely with her friends,” “make or receive telephone calls,” “operate a motor vehicle,” must “be accompanied by security guards when in public,” and she has been “denied the right to her finances.” The paperwork goes on to claim “Ms. Spears may be the most public person who has ever lived.”
Eardley is asking the United States District Court to hear the case. Spears is currently unable to hire her own counsel due to the conservatorship and it was unclear at press time who retained the services of Eardley on Spears’ behalf.
LOS ANGELES, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The father of troubled singer Britney Spears has strengthened control over her affairs with an order to fire her business manager and a demand that he turn over her personal records, a court document showed on Friday. The document, which was posted on celebrity news Web site TMZ.com, said that Howard Grossman was notified of a court order granting Jamie Spears the right to fire him as the singer's business manager and require Grossman "turn over all documents, records, and assets relating to Britney Spears."
The move follows charges by Spear's mother Lynne in court documents made public earlier this week that the pop star's self-style manager, Sam Lufti, had drugged her to take control of her home, life and finances. Late last week the 26 year-old, who rose to stardom as a Disney child star and became a teenage pop singing sensation, was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital and placed under psychiatric evaluation. Her father was given temporary control over her affairs by a Los Angeles court. By Wednesday, Spears had left the UCLA Medical Center and one day later, Jamie Spears was back in court in a closed-door hearing to strengthen his conservatorship over her assets.
Spears' life has spun out of control since her divorce from ex-husband Kevin Federline in 2006. She has spent time in rehab, been photographed in public wearing no underwear and exhibited bizarre behavior such as wearing pink wings and talking in a British accent despite being from Louisiana. She has battled Federline for custody of their two young sons, and in another public disclosure on Friday, Spears' current Los Angeles attorneys in that case, the firm Trope and Trope, have filed court papers asking to be dropped from the case, according to TMZ.com.
Troubled pop star Britney Spears has denied rumours that she is expecting a child with her boyfriend, British-born photographer Adnan Ghalib. Federline gives Britney Spears visiting rights
