Britney Spears‘s court-appointed lawyer has asked resign from her conservatorship, a day after her manager of 25 years quit suggesting the pop singer wants to retire.
Samuel Ingham filed documents in Los Angeles on Tuesday requesting that the court appoint Spears a new lawyer. He gave no reasons but said his resignation would take effect as soon as that happened.
He has been representing the singer’s interests in her conservatorship which has made headlines in recent weeks after Spears condemned the legal arrangement and asked a Los Angeles court to end it.
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During her 23 June speech in court, she was critical of Mr Ingham, and said she wished the court would allow her to hire a lawyer of her choice.
Mr Ingham was largely a silent figure for years in the conservatorship but became a more vocal advocate for Spears when in November last year he told a Los Angeles court that she feared her father and would not resume her career so long as he had power over it.
It comes after Spears’s manager of 25 years, Larry Rudpolph, announced he was stepping down from his role, citing the pop star’s apparent intention to retire as the reason for his decision.
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In a letter obtained by online news website Deadline on Monday, Mr Rudolph claims Spears had been “voicing her intention to officially retire”, adding that he has not spoken to her for two-and-a-half years.
In the letter sent to Spears’s father Jamie and her co-conservator Jodi Montgomery, Mr Rudolph said: “As her manager, I believe it is in Britney’s best interest for me to resign from her team as my professional services are no longer needed.”
Spears, 39, has not performed in public since her last world tour ended in October 2018. Her conservatorship made headlines in recent weeks after she spoke out about the arrangement for the first time.
The singer told a Los Angeles court last month that the 13-year conservatorship is “abusive”, saying she felt traumatised and angry and wanted her life back.
She claimed the court-ordered agreement has excessively controlled her day-to-day life since 2008, and that she is being forced to use birth control despite wanting to have children.
Last week, a judge denied her request to remove her father from the conservatorship, while Bessemer Trust, the estate-management company that Spears had requested to replace her father as conservator of her finances, filed its own documents withdrawing from the case.
Her legal battle to end the conservatorship has attracted worldwide attention and support from celebrities and fans alike, with Telsa mastermind Elon Musk being the latest to voice his support by simply tweeting “Free Britney” on Monday.
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