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Britney Spears sends cease-and-desist letter over Jamie Lynn Spears book
Britney Spears has despatched a cease-and-desist letter ordering her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, to cease speaking about her.
Britney Spears has despatched a warning letter to her sister
The ‘Poisonous’ hitmaker’s authorized group need the ‘Zoey 101’ actress to cease discussing the 40-year-old pop star’s life and struggles when she’s giving interviews to advertise her new memoir, ‘Issues I Ought to Have Mentioned’, which they claimed options “deceptive and outrageous claims” about Britney.
Britney’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, wrote: “We write with some hesitation as a result of the very last thing Britney needs is to carry extra consideration to your ill-timed e-book and its deceptive or outrageous claims about her.
“”Though Britney has not learn and doesn’t intend to learn your e-book, she and thousands and thousands of her followers had been shocked to see how you may have exploited her for financial achieve. She is not going to tolerate it, nor ought to she.”
After years beneath a conservatorship overseen by her father, Jamie Spears, the lawyer confused Britney is not going to be “bullied” by anybody any extra.
The letter continued: “You of all individuals know the abuse and wrongdoing Britney needed to endure throughout the conservatorship, after initially rising up with a ‘ruinous,’ alcoholic father. In reality, your personal e-book reportedly states that your father ‘spent most of my life in that cycle of ruinous behaviour. His bouts of ingesting induced me durations of torment and sorrow.’
“As I’ve beforehand acknowledged, having endured a 13-year conservatorship that stripped her of civil rights and elementary liberties, Britney will now not be bullied by her father or anybody else.”
Jamie Lynn was accused of “airing false or fantastical grievances” to garner publicity for her e-book and warned her sister will take additional authorized motion if she continues to talk about her and their feud.
The letter concluded: “Britney was the household’s breadwinner and he or she additionally in any other case supported you. Publicly airing false or fantastical grievances is unsuitable, particularly when designed to promote books. It is usually probably illegal and defamatory.
“Michelle Obama famously stated, ‘Once they go low, we go excessive.’ And to Britney’s nice credit score, that’s precisely what Britney goes to do, in the interim.
“You latterly reportedly acknowledged that the e-book was ‘not about her.’ She takes you at your phrase and we, due to this fact, demand that you just stop and desist from referencing Britney derogatorily throughout your promotional marketing campaign.
“In the event you fail to take action or defame her, Britney shall be pressured to contemplate and take all acceptable authorized motion.”
The second a part of Jamie Lynn’s interview on the ‘Name Her Daddy’ podcast was on account of be launched on Wednesday (19.01.22) however it’s at present unclear what is going to occur within the wake of the authorized warning.
