All through this messy Britney Spears custody business, we’ve often felt that those coming out of it worst were the poor impoverished lawyers.
Sure, Britney’s lack of contact with her children sent her on a horrifying spiral of mental illness, and her children have spent huge amounts of very important time away from their mother, but nobody thinks twice about the lawyers, toiling away for sometimes as little as $600 per hour in slightly less than palatial surroundings.
But don’t worry – Britney Spears has been ordered to pay almost $400,000 in legal bills. Don’t worry little Timmy, you will get your new crutches for Christmas after all! And a gold-plated private jet shaped like a dinosaur that’s piloted exclusively by three of the Pussycat Dolls! It’s going to be OK!
It doesn’t get mentioned much, but one of the downsides of being mentally unstable is that it’s so bloody expensive. Gone are the days when the mentally unwell can join travelling fairgrounds and make a living operating complicated machinery – now it’s all medical bills this and legal bills that, plus you have to spend a small fortune restocking your diminished underwear drawer.
And all of this being too psychologically disturbed to see your children malarkey is hitting Britney Spears right where it hurts – in the wallet. We already know that Britney Spears has to pay Kevin Federline’s legal bills, but what about her own? Who pays them? Here’s a clue: it’s either Kevin Federline, internationally known Brazilian harpist Cristina Braga or Britney Spears herself.
Here’s another clue: it’s Britney Spears. And those legal bills are getting pretty close to $400,000. E! Online reports:
A court commissioner on Thursday approved a request from Britney’s coconservators to pay nearly $400,000 in legal bills using money from her estate’s private trust… Following a brief closed session, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz allocated a $100,000 advance to Wallet; $10,000 per week to Britney’s court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham, until July 31, when the temporary conservatorship is currently set to expire; $175,000 to Wyle’s firm, Luce Forward; $22,500 for Bryan Spears’ attorney, Clark Byam; and $75,000 to family attorney Stacy Phillips, who was recently rehired to fight Britney’s custody battles.
We know, it sounds like an insanely huge lump of money for Britney Spears to pay on lawyers alone – enough to sink most people, in fact – but don’t forget that Britney Spears is worth approximately $100 million, so she can quite happily spuff away $400,000 on up to 250 more fruitless legal endeavours without worrying too much.
And Britney Spears is still earning, too, despite her current incapacitation. Last year it was worked out that Britney Spears earns $737,000 a month – and now that she’s got a new album out, that figure could have shot up to anything around $737,010, so she’s still doing OK for money.
Let’s just hope that nothing too drastic happens to send Britney Spears over the financial edge in the near future. Like winning back custody of her children, for example. That’d be a disaster. Shelling out close to half a million dollars every now and then to pay a small army of top-notch lawyers to do her business is one thing, but trying to buy back her children’s love? That’d cripple her.
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munch says
Dis iz jst a foul celibrity beat-up!!!
But I guess you can’t expect much from a persons whose first name begins with the same letter as the more vulgar synonym for feces, can you?