The court-appointed attorney representing Britney Spears in her conservatorship has filed paperwork to resign from the ongoing case after 13 years, according to court documents. The resignation request follows the pop star's damning public address to the court last month when she called the conservatorship " abusive."
Britney Spears' attorney filed a motion to resign as her counsel Tuesday, almost two weeks after Spears testified that she wanted to choose her own attorney in her conservatorship.
“I didn’t know I could petition the conservatorship to be ended,” Ms. Spears, 39, said in court. “I’m sorry for my ignorance, but I honestly didn’t know that.” She added, “My attorney says I can’t-it’s not good, I can’t let the public know anything they did to me.”
In court last month, Ms. Spears said she had been pressured into those planned performances and a prior tour. She described being forced into weeks of involuntary medical evaluations and rehab after speaking out against choreography in rehearsal. “I’m not here to be anyone’s slave,” Ms. Spears said. “I can say no to a dance move.”
The law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP, which had recently been brought onto the case to assist Ingham in his duties, is also seeking to resign. TMZ reported earlier on Tuesday that Ingham came to the decision after being “extremely upset” over claims that Spears, 39, made about him in her bombshell court hearing on June 23.
Judge Brenda Penny ruled that Spears' father will no longer serve as the conservator of his daughter's estate, immediately removing him from control of her finances.
(See the filing below.) Ingham, who has represented Spears for the last thirteen years, was allegedly upset after hearing Spears' remote testimony to a judge last month during which she expressed for the first time publicly her desire to be free of the “abusive” legal arrangement.
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Britney was put under conservatorship following her very public breakdown in 2008. Following a year of seemingly erratic behavior—such as shaving her head and attacking a paparazzo's car with an umbrella—the singer was put under a "5150 hold" in a psychiatric hospital for a mental health evaluation.
He Resides in California. Ingham's law practice is located in Ojai, California, which is located outside of Los Angeles County.
Samuel Ingham III I am a State Bar Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. In addition, I have been trained and qualified as a mediator by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Samuel Ingham III, the court-appointed lawyer who's represented Britney Spears in her conservatorship, has requested to resign from that role, according to papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court today.
During her June 23 speech in court, in which she condemned the conservatorship and asked Judge Brenda Penny to end it, Spears was critical of Ingham, and said she wished the court would allow her to hire a lawyer of her choice.
The Associated Press. 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.
Britney Spears’ court-appointed attorney has filed documents to resign from her 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. Spears’ father has asked the court overseeing ...
At a hearing in November, Penny denied Spears' request to have her father replaced entirely , but said James Spears and Bessemer Trust could work together as co-conservators of her finances.
Spears’ father has asked the court overseeing his daughter’s conservatorship to investigate her statements to a judge last week on the court’s control of her medical treatment and personal life. James Spears emphasized that in 2019 he relinquished his power over his daughter's personal affairs, and has control only over her money. (AP Photo) ...
Britney Spears ’s lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, is the latest to step away from involvement in the pop star’s conservatorship, resigning after Spears’s June 23 testimony raised criticism over his handling of the case.
Spears added, “I didn’t know that I could petition the conservatorship to end it,” raising questions over her lawyer’s legal duty to inform his client of her options. Spears said in her testimony that even though she regularly speaks to Ingham, she wants to be able to hire her own lawyer; after her testimony, Ingham told the judge, Brenda Penny, ...
According to The New York Times, the lawyer has made $3m while working for Spears, earning $475 an hour. After her testimony in June, questions were raised about why she did not know she would have to file a petition to end the arrangement.
Newsweek has reached out to Ingham for comment. A cardboard cutout of Britney Spears is seen at a #FreeBritney protest in Los Angeles Grand Park, close to the court where a conservatorship hearing in her case took place on June 23. Rich Fury/Getty Images.
The fallout from Britney Spears' testimony continued on Tuesday as her lawyer announced that he wanted to resign. Samuel D. Ingham III came in for criticism after Spears told a Los Angeles court on June 23 that, under the conservatorship controlling her financial and personal affairs, she had not been able to choose her own legal counsel.
Britney Spears' court-appointed lawyer offers to resign. Britney Spears' court-appointed lawyer has asked to resign from his role, as the fallout from the pop star's dramatic court testimony continues. Samuel Ingham has represented the singer since she was placed under a conservatorship in 2008. But in a public statement to ...
BBC Radio 4: Pieces of Britney. In a 23-minute statement to the court last month, the singer claimed she had been drugged, forced to perform against her will and prevented from having children, and asked the court to end the conservatorship that has governed her life for the last 13 years.
Sam Ingham has been Britney Spears’ court-appointed attorney for 13 years. Sources previously told Page Six that Britney had been feeling frustrated over Ingham’s failure to move to dissolve her conservatorship following her most recent hearing. “Britney doesn’t understand what the holdup is,” the insider told us.
Ingham was assigned to Britney’s case in 2008 at the onset of the conservatorship by Judge Reva Goetz. The appointment has been met with much criticism from legal experts, who have pointed out that conservatees are often given the option to choose their own counsel and questioned why the “Overprotected” singer was not.
The court-appointed attorney representing Britney Spears in her conservatorship has filed paperwork to resign from the ongoing case after 13 years, according to court documents.
Meanwhile, one person sticking by Spears is Jodi Montgomery, a licensed care manager, who was appointed as temporary personal conservator in 2019. Montgomery said she will not retire until Spears requests her to do so.
Ingham did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment. An attorney for her mother, Lynne Spears , on Tuesday filed a petition for Britney to be able to hire her own private legal counsel.
His request follows Spears’ June 23 testimony, in which she alleged that her conservatorship was an abusive environment that prevented her from having any independence over her life. Spears also expressed her desire to be free of the arrangement and to get a new lawyer.
After Spears’ testimony, Jamie Spears filed a request for an investigation into her claims, as well as a response to Ingham’s petition to the appointment of Jodi Montgomery as Spears’ conservator. In her testimony, Spears called out Montgomery, who has been Spears’ personal conservator since 2019, when Jamie Spears stepped down for health reasons.
Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, whose role in the saga has made him the villain of the internet’s #FreeBritney movement, has earned at least $5 million since he came on as a conservator, including a salary of $16,000 per month and a percentage of her touring income.
Ingham—who charges roughly $475 an hour, according to court documents—has made millions since he was appointed as Spears' lawyer in 2008. He is the latest to step away from Spears’ team. On Monday, her longtime manager Larry Rudolph resigned, referencing Spears’ alleged desire to retire.
In the statement, Spears said that Ingham never told her that she could file a formal petition to end the conservatorship, which is a necessary legal step needed to end the arrangement. Still, a formal petition has yet to be filed. MORE FOR YOU.
Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP. Britney Spears’ court-appointed lawyer Samual Ingham III and firm Loeb & Loeb have officially requested to resign, according to court documents filed Tuesday with the Los Angeles Superior Court. His request follows Spears’ June 23 testimony, in which she alleged that her conservatorship was an abusive environment ...
Montgomery, however, has said that she plans to remain a part of the conservatorship. And it looks like Jamie Spears will also remain on board, at least for now: Last week, Judge Brenda Perry rejected a November request from Spears to have her father removed as her conservator.
Last year, Mr. Ingham began seeking substantial changes to the setup on behalf of Ms. Spears, including attempts to strip power from her father, James P. Spears, who remains in control of the singer’s $60 million fortune.
Mr. Ingham was appointed by the court after Ms. Spears, who was hospitalized at the time, was found to be incapable of hiring her own counsel. At a hearing on June 23, Ms. Spears vehemently criticized the conservatorship, claiming she had been forced to perform, take debilitating medication and remain on birth control.
Ingham’s advocacy on her behalf, in part because she said in court that she had been unaware of how to terminate the arrangement. Ms. Spears informed the judge that she wished to hire a lawyer of her own. “I didn’t know I could petition the conservatorship to be ended,” Ms. Spears, 39, said in court.
Britney Spears’s Lawyer Asks to Step Down from Court-Appointed Role. The lawyer filed papers to withdraw after the singer said at a court hearing that she wanted new counsel to represent her and get her out of the conservatorship that governs her life.
In January 2019, she announced an “indefinite work hiatus,” canceling an upcoming Las Vegas residency and citing her father’s health. In court last month, Ms. Spears said she had been pressured into those planned performances and a prior tour.