Last week Britney Spears’s co-conservator Bessemer Trust requested to formally step down from its role overseeing her estate. And now the pop star’s longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, has also announced his resignation, and her lawyer Samuel Ingham III is reportedly planning to do the same.
Rudolph has been overseeing Spears’s career since the mid-1990s, but in a letter sent to Spears’s two remaining conservators—Jamie Spears and Jodi Montgomery—on Monday and obtained by Deadline, he revealed that the singer has expressed her desire to retire, thus rendering his services unnecessary. “It has been over 2 1/2 years since Britney and I last communicated, at which time she informed me she wanted to take an indefinite work hiatus,” Rudolph wrote. “Earlier today, I became aware that Britney had been voicing her intention to officially retire. As you know, I have never been a part of the conservatorship nor its operations, so I am not privy to many of these details. I was originally hired at Britney’s request to help manage and assist her with her career. And as her manager, I believe it is in Britney’s best interest for me to resign from her team as my professional services are no longer needed…. I will always be incredibly proud of what we accomplished over our 25 years together. I wish Britney all the health and happiness in the world, and I’ll be there for her if she ever needs me again, just as I always have been.”
According to TMZ, Ingham is also planning to step down after representing Spears for 13 years. He could reportedly file legal documents as soon as today asking to be dismissed as the singer’s court-appointed lawyer. Sources with “direct knowledge” told the outlet that the attorney is “extremely upset” over Spears’s statement in court that she never knew she could file to end her own conservatorship. The insiders claimed that Ingham regularly gave her options about how they could proceed, which included requesting that the conservatorship come to an end, but she only ever discussed having her father removed. Those sources also said to expect more resignations in the coming week.
Rudolph’s resignation and Ingham's rumored one come after Spears gave a moving testimony in court last month regarding her conservatorship and her desire to have the whole thing dissolved so that she can take back control of her life and start a family with her boyfriend, Sam Asghari. During the court appearance, the pop star claimed she was coerced into going on tour in 2018 after she was told “my own management could sue me if I didn’t follow through with the tour.” She explained that despite her desire not to perform, she was made to sign something immediately after coming off the stage in Las Vegas. “It was very threatening and scary and, with the conservatorship, I couldn’t even get my own attorney. So out of fear, I went ahead and I did the tour,” Spears said. Then, in 2019, she suddenly announced she was going on “hiatus” due in part to her father’s poor health. During her conservatorship hearing, Spears also told Los Angeles Superior Court judge Brenda Penny, “I just want my life back…It is my wish and dream for all of this to end…I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive…I want to end the conservatorship without being evaluated. I want to petition basically to end the conservatorship.”
Despite Spears’s stated wishes, her legal team has not yet filed paperwork to terminate her conservatorship. However, another court hearing has been scheduled for July 14.
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