Controlling Britney Spears

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Britney Spears is one of the biggest celebrities on the planet — she makes millions of dollars performing, selling perfumes and appearing on television. At the same time, however, her life is heavily controlled by a conservatorship, which she has been living under for 13 years. Soon, a court will decide whether to remove Mr. Spears as conservator or terminate the conservatorship altogether. We explore the details of Ms. Spears’s conservatorship, the security apparatus that has surrounded it and its future. Guest: Liz Day, a reporter and supervising producer for the documentary television show, “The New York Times Presents.”

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0:50.4	A Los Angeles court may soon rule on whether Britney Spears should continue to live under a controversial
0:56.6	legal arrangement that has given her father nearly total control of her life.
1:02.9	Today, my colleague Liz Day on New Details about how invasive that arrangement actually
1:09.6	was and why so few people knew the full story.
1:23.5	This Wednesday, September 29th.
1:31.0	You've been our in-house Britney Spears expert for a few years now and you've done a ton
1:35.4	of amazing reporting.
1:37.6	And part of what I've learned from you is that Britney Spears, this very famous person
1:42.9	that I grew up listening to, has actually sort of had a very mysterious period in her
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