Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentBritney Spears has sent a legal letter to her younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, stating that she won’t be bullied in her new book.The cease and desist letter, sent by the pop star’s attorney Mathew Rosengart, comes amid a public back-and-forth on social media between the two sisters that has exploded during Jamie Lynn’s media tour for her new memoir, “Things I Should Have Said.”“As you know, I represent your sister Britney Spears, and I write at her request concerning the above-referenced matter,” Rosengart wrote in the letter, which has been obtained by Variety. “We write with some hesitation because the last thing Britney wants is to bring more attention to your ill-timed book and its misleading or outrageous claims about her.” “Although Britney has not read and does not intend to read your book, she and millions of her fans were shocked to see how you have exploited her for monetary gain,” the letter continues. “She will not tolerate it, nor should she.”The letter references their father, Jamie Spears, who was the singer’s conservator for 13 years and is embroiled in a longstanding legal battle with his daughter regarding her conservatorship, which was terminated this past November.
The younger Spears sister wrote about her father in her book, discussing his drinking and the impact on her childhood.“You of all people know the abuse and wrongdoing Britney had to endure during the conservatorship, after initially growing up with a ‘ruinous,’ alcoholic father,” the legal letter states. “In fact, your own book reportedly states that your father ‘spent most of my life in that cycle of ruinous behavior.
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