![]() ![]() Doering, professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Florida, said Spears would not have been able to stand had she taken all those drugs and chased them with alcohol, let alone make a phone call. Jurors were shown a photo of the two women meeting and smiling.After consuming that cocktail, Spears called her pregnant 16-year-old sister, Jamie Lynn, and said she'd be taking over the spotlight soon, shouting "You're not going to be the only f-ing Spears on the front cover of a magazine next week!" London's News of the World reported. He said he broached the subject of her estrangement from her parents and arranged for a reunion for Britney and her mother. Lutfi, wearing a suit and black-rimmed glasses, spoke in a businesslike manner as he described his increasing role as intermediary in the star’s career and private life. In a passage of the book read by the judge outside the jury’s presence, Lynne Spears wrote: “He lorded over me that he had complete access and I had no access to my own child.” In her book, Lynne Spears refers to him during that period as “the gatekeeper,” ”the general” and “Svengali.” Through all of this, he said he had no written management contract nor was he ever paid. He said he moved into her house after that, although there was no romantic relationship. Lutfi said Spears had been parked all night outside a tanning salon in a mini mall, where he found her and took her home. ![]() 1, 2007, he said, “Britney called me from her car and asked me to come back and help her kick drugs.” Once, he said, he and Britney traveled to Las Vegas to see if she could find a venue for a permanent performing spot.īut he said by September, the singer had relapsed on drugs, and he walked out. Lutfi said he negotiated a peace pact with paparazzi who dogged her every move, giving them access to her schedule if they would follow at a safe distance and save her a parking space at her destination. I helped her choose artwork for her album and merchandise.” I interfaced with her record label and video producers. I acted as a liaison between Britney and her child custody attorneys. “I took charge of dealing with the press. He said she promised and he flushed the powder down the toilet. “And I wanted her to promise me to stay clean,” he said, noting he brought drug-sniffing dogs to Spears’ home, where they found a baggie full of a white powder. Lutfi said he accepted the job with conditions, insisting that Britney allow him to put together a new “varsity team” consisting of a lawyer, agent and business manager. You will get 15 percent of that,'” he recalled. “She said, ‘I’m getting $800,000 a month even when I’m not working. I wanted time to think about it.”īut Lutfi said Spears pressed him, saying: “Sam, do you know what this job pays?” “I told her I had no experience as a manager for someone of her caliber. He was reluctant to become her manager, he said. “She told me someone told her they could scientifically test her hair for history of drug use, so she shaved it all off,” he said on the stand, according to the New York Daily News. “She was having a child custody battle and was in the middle of a divorce.” He added she also had drug problems and seemed to explain Spears’ infamous head-shaving incident. Lutfi described the singer at that time as being “in crisis mode.” ![]() Under questioning by his lawyer, Lutfi said Spears asked him to be her personal manager in June 2007, about a month after they met and struck up a conversation at a nightclub. He said the superstar implored him to become her personal manager after she had fired her entire staff. Lutfi said he was actually a peacemaker, reuniting Britney with her mother after a long estrangement. Spears’ mother portrayed him as a Svengali-like figure preying on Britney’s vulnerabilities. ![]()
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