Hot Topic: Britney is Free
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Britney spears is free, or at least after a court decision on Friday, spears will be able to avail herself of rudimentary freedoms that most of us take for granted, but that have been denied to her during the 13 years. She lived under a probate conservatorship. She will be able to make her own medical decisions, sign her own contracts and spend her own money. She now faces a legal battle with those who once managed her life and money, including her father and former conservator, Jamie Spears and her former business manager, Lou taylor, who has along with her company tristar resisted efforts by Spears's lawyer Matthew Rosengarten, to obtain her financial records. This moment is the culmination of many things, including a long and concerted push on the part of Spears fandom, the most devoted members of which have been flying the free Britney flag for more than a decade. But the end of Spears's conservatorship came about above all, because of Spears's own efforts. Since its inception, she has been fighting to get free. Early on. She tried to escape surveillance to contact lawyers who could help her and to slip messages to the media through a friend. In recent years, she told a court investigator that she believed the conservatorship was an oppressive and controlling tool against her and that she was being taken advantage of After all, she was paying her own conservators and their lawyers, often millions of dollars every year