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Mathew Rosengart, the litigator who has represented Britney Spears for the previous three years and efficiently advocated for her launch from a court-ordered conservatorship, is now not representing the singer, based on a supply with direct data of the matter.
Rosengart stepping down comes as all litigation pertaining to Spears’ former conservatorship has been resolved, reinstating the pop star’s independence and releasing her from the probate system.
Two months in the past, underneath Rosengart’s illustration, Spears reached a settlement along with her estranged father, avoiding a doubtlessly heated trial and concluding their contentious dispute over authorized charges that had continued past the termination of her conservatorship in November 2021.
With the settlement reached and all different free ends tied to Spears’ litigation finalized, Rosengart, who’s a Los Angeles-based associate on the agency Greenberg Traurig, is shifting on to give attention to his heavy caseload for different purchasers, the supply mentioned.
On the time of the settlement, Rosengart instructed CNN, “It has been our honor and privilege to characterize, defend, and defend Britney Spears,” calling her an “icon and an excellent and courageous artist of historic and epic proportion.”
Rosengart didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark relating to the top of his working relationship with Spears.
Spears employed Rosengart – a former federal prosecutor – in the summertime of 2021, after she had been working with a court-appointed lawyer for almost all of her conservatorship, which she was positioned underneath in 2008.
Rosengart emerged as a key determine in Spears’ effort to finish her conservatorship. She has regularly credited him with defending her and restoring her civil liberties. Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, served because the singer’s conservator for many of its 13-year period, overseeing his grownup daughter’s funds and medical selections.
In June 2021, Spears gave explosive testimony in court docket, pleading with the choose to interrupt her free from the conservatorship, which she mentioned was “abusive.”
“I simply need my life again. It’s been 13 years and it’s sufficient,” Spears instructed the choose, claiming that she was pressured by her administration and father to go on tour in opposition to her will, couldn’t drink espresso, was placed on lithium that made her really feel “drunk” and was not allowed to get married or have a child as she wished.
In July 2021, Spears testified once more, making a tearful plea to the choose to take away her father from her conservatorship, which led to the court docket’s determination to grant Spears her personal lawyer. She retained Rosengart to litigate her case.
Inside two months of working with Rosengart, the court docket suspended Spears’ father as her conservator, after which finally terminated the conservatorship lower than two months later.
Rosengart – who has additionally represented Hollywood figures together with Sean Penn and Steven Spielberg in authorized issues – was hailed as a hero by legions of #FreeBritney supporters, turning into a big determine all through the authorized saga. As Spears’ case captivated the world, the lawyer was the frequent topic of memes and viral posts throughout social media, dubbed by some followers as “RosenGod.”
Spears and Rosengart have a detailed connection that’s atypical from normal attorney-client relationships.
When Rosengart was employed in July 2021, Spears posted to her Instagram: “Now with actual illustration at this time … I really feel GRATITUDE and BLESSED !!!!” In February 2022, the star shared a photograph of the 2 in matching pink outfits, writing, “This man has turned my life round.”
In Spears’ memoir, “The Girl in Me,” which was printed final 12 months, she wrote that Rosengart’s authorized technique led her to court docket victory. “He instructed me that I deserved the credit score for what occurred,” Spears wrote within the e-book.
Since her conservatorship was terminated, Spears printed her memoir and has launched two singles, “Maintain Me Nearer” with Elton John and “Mind Your Business” with will.i.am. She additionally bought married and divorced to health coach and actor Sam Asghari.
All through Spears’ authorized battle, many accusations have been made in opposition to her father in authorized filings pertaining to monetary misuse and abusing his position as conservator. The elder Spears has at all times maintained there was no wrongdoing on his half, stating that the court docket permitted each step of the conservatorship. When Spears reached a settlement along with her father this previous April, his lawyer, Alex Weingarten, instructed CNN that he “would have appreciated to have had a trial in order that the reality got here out.”
“Jamie would love nothing greater than to reveal the entire particulars and has nothing to cover, however that’s not the scenario sadly,” Spears’ father’s lawyer mentioned, including that he “loves his daughter very a lot and labored tirelessly to guard her.”
However Spears needed to convey her long-running authorized battle to a detailed.
“As she desired, her freedom now contains that she is going to now not must attend or be concerned with court docket on this matter,” Rosengart instructed CNN, in April.
“Though the conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, her want for freedom is now actually full,” he mentioned.