Britney Spears Alleges Sister Jamie Lynn Spears Wanted Her to End Conservatorship Fight
In her new memoir, Spears alleges that her sister told her to "stop fighting" her conservatorship.
Britney Spears has alleged that her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, wanted her to end the fight against her longtime conservatorship. Us Weekly reports that in her new memoir, The Woman in Me, Spears recounts reaching out to her sister when she was checked into a mental health treatment facility in 2019, but she claims she found no support. Spears states that Jamie Lynn encouraged her to "stop fighting" because "nothing" was going to change the situation.
It was first reported back in February 2021 that Spears had nabbed a $15 million book deal for a tell-all, following the end of her conservatorship drama. The 41-year-old pop star inked a contract with Simon & Schuster to write a detail-spilling memoir about her life, career, family and her controversial conservatorship. The publisher won the deal with Spears after a multitude of companies were vying for the contract, per an insider, who added that "the deal is one of the biggest of all time, behind the Obamas." Notably, Spears' sister Jaime Lynn recently released her own tell-all, but has faced some criticism over various details addressed in the book.
Spears' book comes almost two full years after her longtime conservatorship officially ended on Nov. 12, 2021, bringing to an end more than a decade of the singer not being legally allowed to make certain types of autonomous decisions for herself, including those regarding her health and finances. "As of today, effective immediately, the conservatorship has been terminated as both the person and the estate," Mathew Rosengart, Spears' attorney, said outside the courthouse, per CNN, after the ruling was made. "This is a monumental day for Britney Spears. What's next for Britney, and this is the first time this could be said for about a decade, is up to one person, Britney."
Rosengart later came out and called for Spears' father, Jamie, to be investigated for how he managed his daughter's conservatorship over the years. "I used to be a federal prosecutor, now I'm just a private attorney," Rosengart stated, according to Vulture. "I don't have criminal investigative powers. What happens [from] there will be up to law enforcement." Rosengart went on to accuse Jamie of giving himself a massive salary for being Spears' conservator. "He took a salary from the estate," the lawyer claimed. "He took a percentage of his daughter's earnings in Las Vegas and otherwise."
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