Calls to FreeBritney Spears are gaining momentum once again
Britney Spears. Photo: Image Group LA/Walt Disney Television via Getty Recently, a familiar refrain has reverberated online — a call to #FreeBritney Spears, from … what, exactly? Is Britney Spears not currently free?
Wait, what is a conservatorship? When a person is deemed unable to make their own decisions, typically because of mental incapacity, a court may grant that authority to a conservator. Basically, this person functions as a guardian, assuming control over the person’s finances, or health matters, or — as in Spears’s case — full legal responsibility for the adult’s life. As such, Spears’s father, Jamie, and an attorney, Andrew Wallet, have controlled her approximately $60 million fortune.
But in recent years, Spears’s career has undergone something of a transformation, thanks in part to a highly successful Las Vegas residency. In 2016, the New York Times reported that her conservatorship had grown into something more akin to a “protective bubble” than a “cage.” The arrangement has become an “accepted fact of life,” people close to the pop star said, that allowed her to focus on her music and her family.
Early that year, as Vulture has reported, Spears canceled her “Britney: Domination” Las Vegas residency, explaining that her father’s recent hospitalization for a ruptured colon, which Spears said almost killed him, meant she needed to be with her family. This announcement appeared on her typically active Instagram account, which subsequently went dark. Then, Wallet requested to have his conservatorship revoked, warning of potential harm to Spears if his name remained on the arrangement.
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