Kristin Robinson At 12:30 p.m. Wednesday (July 22), some 50 Britney Spears fans gathered at the entrance to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Card-carrying members of the #FreeBritney movement, they came out during a pandemic to protest the conservatorship that Spears, one of the century’s biggest pop stars, has been under since 2008.It was an apt time to bring attention to the legally mandated watch over the singer’s financial and personal affairs.
Stemming from a period of time during 2007 and 2008 that indicated mental health issues and culminated in a very public head-shaving and umbrella-wielding episode, Spears was put under the guardianship of her father, Jamie Spears.
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