Britney Spears Settles With Ex-Manager

No, Not That One (Lufti)

The One Before Him

June 6. 2009

Sony Music artist Britney Spears has been embroiled in legal proceeding with two ex-managers in two separate cases. She has settled with her first manager, Johnny Wright, paying him severance money and royalties she was contractually obligated to give him, after firing him to hire others.

She went through two more managers, one of which, Sam Lufti, also sued her and lost with the case currently on appeal. Her schizophrenia has once again proven quite costly.

P.S. - this article brings back bad memories of the boy band craze of the late 1990s and the cheesy pop trash Spears put out as well. Not a time music history will remember well.

Britney Settling Up With Ex-Manager

Fri., Jun. 5, 2009 - Britney Spears has one less legal scuffle to come home to. Attorneys for the touring pop tart have settled a lawsuit brought by a manager Spears worked with in the early aughts who complained that she broke her agreement to pay him commissions until 2008.

The "Toxic" singer worked with Johnny Wright until 2003, according to the suit, and she stopped cutting him checks at the end of 2006.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, per the Los Angeles Times.

Also in court today, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz, who has been overseeing Spears' conservatorship and approving money exchanges right and left, signed off on another $193,000 in legal fees to be paid by Spears' estate mainly to the attorneys who handled this case...

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