Britney Spears’s former business manager Lou Taylor has reportedly denied having anything to do with bugging Spears’s bedroom or monitoring her communications, after the pop star last week accused Taylor on Instagram of having “secretly ruined” her life.
Taylor filed a motion to block a request that her business, Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group, turn over a full accounting of the last 13 years, according to court documents obtained by People. The company claims that they already provided regular accounting over 11 years and no objection was ever raised by Spears or her lawyer. They also denied several of the singer’s allegations, which include that they bugged her bedroom, controlled her medication, and monitored her communications. In The New York Times Presents: Controlling Britney Spears, the documentary accuses Robin Greenhill, a Tri Star staffer and Spears’s former personal assistant, of monitoring the pop star’s iPhone by secretly mirroring her communications on an iPad they kept in a safe. Tri Star has denied these allegations. Taylor’s involvement in the onset of Spears’s conservatorship was also investigated in the Netflix documentary, Britney vs. Spears.
“No one at Tri Star has ever had any control over Ms. Spears’ medical treatment.… No one at Tri Star has ever suggested monitoring Ms. Spears’ electronic communications. No one at Tri Star has ever had authority to approve security protocols,” the motion reads, according to People. “No one at Tri Star is aware of any hidden electronic surveillance device placed in Ms. Spears’ bedroom. No one at Tri Star has ever received any compensation related to Ms. Spears or her Estate that is not accurately reflected in the accountings filed or to be filed in this case.” Tri Star added that they could not have played a role in the establishment of the pop star’s 2008 conservatorship as they did not represent her at the time. They first began working with Spears’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, in 2005, before working on Britney’s Circus tour in 2009, according to the court documents.
Taylor’s motion comes after Britney called her out by name on Instagram last week in a since-deleted post that also accused her mom, Lynne Spears, of coming up with the idea for her conservatorship. “I will never get those years back,” the singer wrote, adding that her mom “secretly ruined my life…and yes I will call her and Lou Taylor out on it…so take your whole ‘I have NO IDEA what’s going on’ attitude and go fuck yourself!!!!” The Grammy winner concluded her Instagram caption by seemingly directing her statement towards her mother, writing, “You know exactly what you did…my dad is not smart enough to ever think of a conservatorship…but tonight I will smile knowing I have a new life ahead of me!!!!” (Lynne and Taylor did not immediately respond to People’s request for comment.)
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