Britney Spears has been doing so well for a while now. It’s been at least a year since she last shaved her head or hit any cars with an umbrella or got pregnant by Kevin Federline. I was really hoping her desperate days were behind her.
Except now TMZ says she was busted at a Steve Madden store for buying boots with her bodyguard’s plastic:
Britney hit up the Steve Madden store in the Valley over the weekend and bought 2 pairs of boots. We’re told Brit paid for the new kicks with a credit card, but the card had the name of one of her bodyguards on it.
The store employees gave Britney a hard time over the card … because she signed her own name on the dotted line. We’re told Britney convinced the clerk the person named on the card is an employee of her company and she was entitled to use it.
Here’s the thing: Under the terms of the conservatorship Britney has a credit card with a limit of $1,500 a week.
Wait — $1,500 a week? And she’s shopping at the cheapest, tackiest shoe store in the mall? Doesn’t she know that Steve Madden has made an industry of ripping off Christian Louboutin, and she could easily afford the real deal with her annual shopping budget of $78,000?
But I digress. The real issue here is that this type of credit-card fraud is precisely the same behavior that she claimed former “business manager” and professional leech Sam Lutfi was perpetrating against her when she filed for a restraining order two years ago.
Or as the National Enquirer reported in 2008:
The singer has blown through $22 million in just months. And the family charges Lutfi knew she was suffering from a mental illness – and pounced like a vulture.
They say he had access to all of Britney’s credit cards, her ATM card and submitted bills to her business manager for his “services.” And her mother Lynne believes he gave her pills…
A one-month American Express card bill for a staggering $225,000 alerted her dad to the massive hemorrhaging of money, revealed the source.
“Several charges on the bill are thought to be Sam’s doing since Britney hasn’t had the card in her possession in months. Sam took control of her finances.”
If at any point I thought the conservatorship was getting a bit long in the tooth for a 28-year-old mother of two, I clearly stand corrected. Anyone who can spend $225,000 in a month on pleather shoes and frappuccinos deserves to be absolved of responsibility over her own finances.
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Maybe using the guards credit card is her way around the measley weekly budget she is forced to live on. Come on, who can live off of $1,500 a week?
Crap. Steve Madden is tacky? I bought my girlfriend shoes from there as a present. I guess that’s why she doesn’t wear them. In my defense it looked like a fancy place, and since I’m a real man’s man I don’t know much about women’s shoes. Except they never seem to make the really cute ones in size 11 1/2.
I’m sorry, Pasta. I’m really talking about Steve Madden’s penchant for knocking off designer shoes and then playing dumb about copyright ethics. You are an awesome boyfriend for buying her shoes. (Are you reading this, Mr. Won’t?)
I would say her body guard is being paid back in more than money.
Aleric, that was my thought too. And EWWWWWW. I’d say he’s getting ripped off twice over.
Lol Beige, well maybe she hides more money in other body cavities to entice him to go searching…lol.
Aleric you sick puppy. That statement make ne think of the Grinch song. “I wouldn’t touch you with a 10 and a half foot pole.”
MY HEAD MY HEAD PICTURES IN MY HEAD GAAAH
If Britney is under a Conservatorship, that means she’s under a legal designation via a State mental health law that is very, very, hard to get initiated and implemented, since it is written with the highest legal regard for individual rights. In other words, it had to be proven to a very high standard of review that she is seriously mentally ill, and unable to care for herself. The courts, especially here in California, do not take mental health conservatorships lightly, and many, many people who really need a conservatorship don’t get them because the laws err on the rights of the individual. So, I think it is unfair to characterize her as a hypocrite and to make fun of her behavior. As far as the guy who tried to use her, he was an obvious parasite to her situation, and since he’s not under a mental health conservatorship, he should be held accountable for his behavior. I don’t see a parallel situation between the two as Deceiver is stating as the “real issue”. Sorry to be bumming on you, but really, pick on the folks who aren’t suffering from a real mental health problem, and really deserve your wrath.
That statement makes me think of that famouse saying – ” I wouldn’t touch her with your dick.”
i love britney spears
I agree totally with you Darla, shame on you Deceiver. Short on news I suspect. Love the site but I do not see the connection you are trying to make.
in my opinion, if this is the worst thing shes done recently, shes doing pretty good.
or in other words… ‘LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE!” haha
Supposedly her doctors at Cedars-Sinai diagnosed her as having bipolar disorder. I couldn’t say anything for sure- I’m not a psychiatrist, let alone her psychiatrist. But many people with bipolar disorder spend huge amounts of money on impulse, and for some the compulsion to buy stuff overwhelms their personal ethics and they steal credit cards, bank numbers, etc. Not that this should be excused entirely, but I feel nothing but pity for her if this is the case. I wouldn’t wish bipolar on anyone, I’ve watched friends who have it do things like this, and you can see the misery in their eyes when the bill comes in. They want to stop, but it’s like asking them not to blink- the urge is so strong.
This would be hard enough if she wasn’t famous. God, I feel awful for her. Has my snarky heart grown 3 sizes today?