{"id":25388,"date":"2019-06-14T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1039507"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:25:00","slug":"britney-spears-gets-permanent-restraining-order-against-controversial-ex-manager-sam-lutfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/britney-spears-gets-permanent-restraining-order-against-controversial-ex-manager-sam-lutfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Gets Permanent Restraining Order Against Controversial Ex Manager Sam Lutfi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018825\/rs_634x1024-180925141725-634.britney-spears2.cm.92618.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Britney Spears\" alt=\"Britney Spears\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Broadimage\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"46\">\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Britney Spears<\/strong>&nbsp;was granted a permanent restraining order against&nbsp;<strong>Sam Lutfi<\/strong>, a&nbsp;spokesperson for the LA County Superior Courts tells E! News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A judge has ordered&nbsp;the controversial&nbsp;manager&nbsp;to stay at least 200 yards from&nbsp;the pop star&nbsp;at all times for the next&nbsp;five years.&nbsp;Lutfi&#8217;s attorney <strong>Marc Gans<\/strong> told E! News in a statement, &#8220;We think the restrictions on speech are unconstitutional and are considering appealing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spears was originally granted a temporary restraining order in early May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Britney Spears was granted a restraining order against&nbsp;Sam Lutfi, according to court documents obtained by E! News.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marc S. Gans,&nbsp;Lutfi&#8217;s attorney, issued a statement to E! News. &#8220;We are disappointed in the results. We feel this is overly broad and violates Mr. Lutfi&#8217;s constitutional rights,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is only temporary and we look forward to arguing the matter more fully at the hearing for a more permanent restraining order on May 28th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>_____<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Britney Spears<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>has filed for a restraining order against her controversial ex-manager&nbsp;Sam Lutfi.<\/p>\n<p>In documents obtained by E! News, the singer and her family are requesting a civil harassment restraining order against the 44-year-old, who is described as a &#8220;parasite&#8221; in the 81 page filing. According to the documents, Lutfi allegedly pretended to &#8220;have a professional relationship with Ms. Spears, even falsely claiming to have been her manager.&#8221; However, the Spears family was able to remove Sam from Britney&#8217;s life in 2009, when the singer got a three-year restraining order against him and was subsequently placed under conservatorship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Spears&#8217; mother is alleging Lutfi is once again causing a disruption in the artist and her family&#8217;s life. &#8220;Shortly after Ms. Spears checked herself into a mental health facility, Lutfi began a new campaign of harassment against Ms. Spears and her family,&#8221; the filing claims. &#8220;In the last week alone, Mr. Lutfi has made dozens of disparaging and threatening comments on social media and in interviews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.345541401274\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.544585987261\">\n<p>Moreover, the documents claim that Sam has sent &#8220;threatening texts to Ms. Spears&#8217; family, he has leaked confidential information and is considering releasing more of Ms. Spears (actual and fabricated) private information.&#8221; The request for a restraining order cites one instance when Lutfi allegedly sent &#8220;Ms. Spears&#8217; mother,&nbsp;<strong>Lynne Spears<\/strong>, a long and unhinged text message that includes harmful, disparaging and ominous remarks in an effort to disrupt the conservatorship.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the aforementioned example is the cause of Lynne Spears latest court filing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1035416\/a-complete-timeline-of-the-ongoing-drama-surrounding-britney-spears-well-being-and-conservatorship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requesting information<\/a> regarding Britney&#8217;s conservatorship.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.52688172043\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27.698924731183\">\n<p>In addition to allegedly sending threatening texts, Sam has allegedly caused the harassment of the Spears family by urging his over 41,000 Twitter followers to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamLutfi\/status\/1119069042835218432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raise hell.<\/a>&#8221; The court filing alleges that he is attempting to persuade his followers into carrying out the &#8220;harassment indirectly on his behalf,&#8221; in order to &#8220;free&#8221; Britney from the conservatorship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ms. Spears is in a court-ordered conservatorship to protect her,&#8221; the court documents allege. &#8220;By directly aiming to disrupt Ms. Spears&#8217; conservatorship through calls for vigilante action, bribes and release of private information, Mr. Lutfi&#8217;s actions threaten Ms. Spears&#8217; safety and well-being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the temporary restraining order is granted, Lutfi will be legally ordered to discontinue his &#8220;disparaging public statements regarding Ms. Spears, her conservator, or her family or her manager.&#8221;&nbsp;He would also be forbidden from&nbsp;coming within 200 yards of Britney, her sons,&nbsp;<strong>Jaden<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Sean<\/strong>, her father,&nbsp;<strong>Jamie Spears<\/strong>, her sister&nbsp;<strong>Jamie-Lynne<\/strong> or her mother.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>E! News has reached out to Spears&#8217; attorney for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(This story was originally published Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 6:17 a.m. PST)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Additional reporting by Alli Rosenbloom<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1039507\/britney-spears-files-restraining-order-against-controversial-ex-manager-sam-lutfi?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadimage\/REX\/Shutterstock UPDATE: Britney Spears&nbsp;was granted a permanent restraining order against&nbsp;Sam Lutfi, a&nbsp;spokesperson for the LA County Superior Courts tells E! News.&nbsp; A judge has ordered&nbsp;the controversial&nbsp;manager&nbsp;to stay at least 200 yards from&nbsp;the pop star&nbsp;at all times for the next&nbsp;five years.&nbsp;Lutfi&#8217;s attorney Marc Gans told E! News in a statement, &#8220;We think the restrictions on speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 01:11:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}