Britney Spears is under investigation after allegedly striking an employee at her home in Southern California, as the Associated Press reports. Spears’ housekeeper filed a misdemeanor battery complaint with the Sheriff’s Office, saying that the singer hit her in a fight over a cellphone on Monday. There were no injuries in th...

Britney Spears’ father, James “Jamie” Spears, has agreed to step down as head of her conservatorship, TMZ reports. Jamie has overseen the conservatorship — a legal arrangement that manages both Britney’s personal and professional life — since a Los Angeles court put it in place in 2008 ...

Britney Spears’ new lawyer Mathew S. Rosengart has filed a petition with the court to remove her father Jamie Spears from heading up her controversial conservatorship, as The New York Times reports. Rosengart was approved as Spears’ lawyer earlier this month, following the resignation of court-appointed lawyer Samuel D. Ingha...

Britney Spears’ battle to be released from her conservatorship is still ongoing. Her struggle has prompted the proposal of a bipartisan bill that, if passed, could make it easier for people under similar conservatorships to request a different guardian other than their court-appointed one in instances of abuse or fraud. The bill, known...

A few new updates in the #FreeBritney saga have emerged since the last time we checked in. For one thing, a feature by Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker indicated that the night before her incendiary courtroom testimony — in which she called for an end to the “abusive” conservatorship that has control...