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Britney Spears settles long-running legal dispute with estranged father, finally bringing ultimate end to conservatorship

Jamie Spears, father of singer Britney Spears, leaves the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2012, left, and Britney Spears arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 17, 2015. (AP Photo) Jamie Spears, father of singer Britney Spears, leaves the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2012, left, and Britney Spears arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 17, 2015. (AP Photo)
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Britney Spears has reached a settlement with her estranged father more than two years after the court-ordered termination of a conservatorship that had given him control of her life, their attorneys said.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the attorneys for the pop star and her father, who confirmed the settlement to CNN.

鈥淚t has been our honor and privilege to represent, protect, and defend Britney Spears,鈥 the singer鈥檚 attorney, Mathew Rosengart, said in a statement to CNN.

鈥淢s. Spears is and always will be an icon and a brilliant and brave artist of historic and epic proportion,鈥 Rosengart鈥檚 statement continued. 鈥淎lthough the conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, her wish for freedom is now truly complete. As she desired, her freedom now includes that she will no longer need to attend or be involved with court in this matter.鈥

Alex Weingarten, attorney for the singer鈥檚 father, told CNN, 鈥淛amie is thrilled that this is all over.鈥

鈥淛amie loves his daughter very much and worked tirelessly to protect her,鈥 Weingarten said. 鈥淗e wants the best for Britney, nothing less.鈥

Spears鈥 conservatorship was terminated back in November 2021. But the legal battles have persisted with lawyers for the singer and her father going head-to-head in frequent court visits over attorney鈥檚 fees and allegations of improper behavior in handling the conservatorship. Her father has consistently denied the accusations.

The star was placed under the court-ordered conservatorship in 2008 with her father serving as her conservator for the majority of the 13-year arrangement, overseeing and controlling all of his adult daughter鈥檚 finances and medical decisions.

Conservatorship ended in 2021

In June 2021, Spears gave explosive testimony, marking the first time she had spoken in open court throughout the 13 years. She pleaded with the judge to break her free from the conservatorship, which she categorized to the judge as 鈥渁busive.鈥

In her testimony, Spears claimed that while she was under the conservatorship, she was forced by her management to go on tour against her will, was put on lithium that made her feel 鈥渄runk鈥 and was not allowed to get married or have a baby as she wished and was forced to use an IUD for birth control.

鈥淚 just want my life back. It鈥檚 been 13 years and it鈥檚 enough,鈥 Spears said during the emotional hearing.

After that testimony, Spears was granted the ability to hire her own lawyer, rather than work with a court-appointed attorney, which she had done for the 13 years prior. It was then that she retained Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor and attorney who has represented many Hollywood stars.

In September 2021, less than two months before her conservatorship was terminated, a judge suspended Spears鈥 father, Jamie, as his daughter鈥檚 conservator.

Since her conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, Spears has been very active on her social media, frequently posting videos of herself dancing and writing lengthy captions to her fans. She has released two songs, 鈥淗old Me Closer鈥 with Elton John鈥 and 鈥淢ind Your Business鈥 with Will.i.am. She also released an instant best-selling memoir, 鈥淭he Woman In Me.鈥

In her memoir, she wrote about the 鈥渟oul-crushing鈥 years of her conservatorship, writing that she felt 鈥渓ike a shadow of myself.鈥

鈥淭he conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child,鈥 Spears wrote in the book. 鈥淚 became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.鈥

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