Sam Lutfi is a predator. At least according to Britney Spears’ father Jamie. Papa Spears testified for over 90 minutes yesterday about why he feels it is necessary to have long-term restraining orders granted against three people, one of which is Lutfi. Repeating an allegation that he’s made over the past year that Lutfi ground medication into his daughter’s food, Jamie Spears said he thought his daughter’s one-time friend and manager was a danger to the family. But he did little to establish direct contact between Lutfi and his Britney since a conservatorship was established a year ago. Acknowledging under questioning by Lutfi’s lawyer that he was not aware of any conversations between his daughter and Sam, the only evidence of communication between the two was a recent call Britney Spears made to Lutfi. A nanny supposedly heard the pop starlet talking to Sam and ex boyfriend Adnan Ghilab, one of the other people Papa Spears is rallying to get a permanent restraining order against.
Per The Huffington Post:
“[The hearing] Couldn’t of gone better.” said Bryan Freedman, attorney for Sam Lutfi. He also said that Jamie Spears’ testimony did not demonstrate why a restraining order is necessary.
The hearing will continue on Wednesday morning and a judge will determine then if the restraining order will get extended indefinitely. If Sam did have any contact with Britney, he would have violated a court order to stay away from her.
Per E! via DListed:
“Daddy testified the nanny overheard Brit Brit talking to Adnan and Sam really early in the morning on a cell phone. When Brit went to dance practice, her security team found the phone which was a prepaid Nokia. Brit admitted she got it when she was at the Peninsula Hotel one day.”
Under her father’s care and control, Britney Spears now lives a protected life, her access even to telephones strictly restricted. It appears Jamie believes Sam and Adnan got her the phone in an attempt to poison her against Jamie and to disrupt the conservatorship. The phone listed the phone numbers of Ghalib and Lutfi. Spears also testified about a series of what he called threatening text messages he received last month from someone with the screen name “citygalin310,” who he was later “100 percent” sure was Lutfi, which was strongly denied by Lutfi’s attorney.
Per People:
“Spears said the texts appeared to be someone “trying to extort my daughter.” He replied to the messages by saying, “What are you looking for? Our family has been through so much.” Fifteen minutes after receiving those texts, Jamie said Lutfi called him. “[Sam] began to cry and he basically fell apart on the phone,” said Jamie.
“When [Lutfi] was in so-called control, she’d lost everything – her kids and career,” Jamie said at the hearing. “I believe he’s a predator, I believe he’s very dangerous to her … and causes her a lot of anguish and disbelief. We’ve asked him to go away before, and now he’s coming back. We just want the man to go away. Just leave us alone.”
Papa Spears also revealed why his daughter locked herself in a bathroom last year with her youngest son Jayden, leading to her hospitalization. Claiming she had been told by Lutfi that she could have her children another night, the drama unfolded when body guards for ex husband Kevin Federline arrived to pick up the boys. Somberly describing his daughter during that night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as “kind of wild” and “just very messed up,” he said his daughter just didnt want to let them go since she had been told she would have them for another night.
In court papers, Lutfi denies that he’s been harassing Spears, stating that it has been Spears herself reaching out to him through text messages even though court orders forbid her from doing so. Lutfi does admit that he’s passed messages on to her through her hairdresser and others, including a “Merry Christmas” message, but argues that the messages weren’t harmful in any way.
Call me crazy, but a court order of no contact means just that – No Contact!!
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