April 22, 2009

Closing Arguments Heard in Britney Restraining Order Case

Sam Lutfi and Britney Spears

Sam Lutfi and Britney Spears

After three hours of closing arguments Tuesday, no ruling was made on whether to extend a restraining order against Britney Spears’s ex-manager Sam Lutfi and attorney Jon Eardley.

The singer’s father Jamie, who initially filed the request on Jan. 30, alleges that both men have continuously harassed his daughter, adding that Lutfi smuggled a cell phone to her at a hotel.

November 4, 2008

Charlize Theron Settles $20 Million Lawsuit

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron has settled the $20 million breach of contract lawsuit against her, according to papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court Monday.

The suit was filed last year, when Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil claimed that Theron had worn a Christian Dior watch during a press event in 2006, despite being paid “substantial funds” to exclusively wear Raymond Weil timepieces during the time in question.

October 18, 2008

Jury Begins Deliberations in Britney Spears Traffic Trial

Britney Spears

Britney Spears

After hearing closing arguments, a jury began deliberations Friday in Britney Spears’s driving-without-a-license trial.

The panel deliberated for two hours without reaching a verdict and was dismissed for the weekend.

In a half-hour closing argument, prosecutor Michael Amerian told jurors that Spears, 26, should be convicted of the misdemeanor charge because she did not have a California driver’s license at the time of a August 2007 fender bender.

July 21, 2008

Janet Jackson’s ‘Wardrobe Malfunction’ FCC Fine Tossed

Janet and JustinOne of the most infamous moments in Super Bowl history may have seen Janet Jackson bear a lot of flesh – but that doesn’t mean CBS ought to bear a big financial burden, a three-judge panel has ruled.

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Monday tossed out the $550,000 that the Federal Communications Commission levied against CBS Corp. for the 2004 nationally televised halftime show that introduced the phrase “wardrobe malfunction” to the world. The court said the FCC had acted “arbitrarily and capriciously.”

February 24, 2008

Britney Spears Visits with Her Boys

Britney SpearsBritney Spears was reunited with her sons for three hours on Saturday.

After lawyers for Spears and Kevin Federline reached a visitation agreement Friday, the pop star saw her children Preston, 2, and Jayden, 1, for the first time since Jan. 3.

The boys left Federline’s Tarzana house Saturday morning – put in their car seats by their father, according to photographers – and were driven by Federline’s bodyguard to Spears’s Studio City home.

February 23, 2008

Britney Allowed Visits with Children ‘Very Soon’

britney spearsBritney Spears will be allowed to visit her children “soon, very soon,” after lawyers hammered out a structured visitation arrangement, Kevin Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan says.

Kaplan confirmed Friday that he and his partner Jim Simon spent two days working with Spears’s legal team. Under the terms of the agreement, details of which Kaplan would not disclose, Jayden, 1, and Preston, 2, will once again enjoy “participation of their mother in their lives,” Kaplan says.