No more hit, run charges for Britney’s ex-boyfriend Tabloids, LA Times, the AP get tricky, distort facts

October 19, 2009 By 7 Comments
Courtesy of JFXonline.com Oct. 2009

Courtesy of JFXonline.com Oct. 2009

Tabloids and unofficial Britney Spears fan Web sites swelled over the weekend with reports of Adnan Ghalib pleading no contest “regarding” hit and run charges.

A press release issued by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office states he plead no contest to leaving the scene of an accident, not hit and run as charged by the prosecution in February.

Meanwhile, when Richard Winton of the Los Angeles Times reported the update, he not only made it seem that he spoke to Jane Robison, news secretary of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, but omitted a key word from the press release where he allegedly got his information.

“They must have got that from the press release and added my name,” says Robison.

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Filed Under: Courtroom News, Fair news, Shady Media Reports

Two felony charges dismissed against Adnan Ghalib

October 9, 2009 By 5 Comments

Courtesy of JFXonline.com

Courtesy of JFXonline.com

Britney Spears’ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib accepted a plea bargain on felony charges which had loomed against him since last spring, according to celebrity news site JFXonline.

Ghalib plead no contest in a Van Nuys, Calif. courthouse today. The judge ordered him to serve 45 days in jail, do 45 days of community service and be on probation for three years says JFXonline. He has until Nov. 26 to begin serving his sentence.

The felony charges stem from an altercation with a process server who claims Ghalib tried to run him over with his car last February. Ghalib had consistently plead not guilty. Ghalib had been charged with three counts per a court order: Assault with a deadly weapon (his Mercedes), battery with serious bodily injury and hit and run causing death or injury.

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Filed Under: Adnan Ghalib, Britney Spears, Conservatorship, Courtroom News, Fair news, Los Angeles Times, Shady Media Reports

Kevin Federline has sole custody of Spears’children

October 7, 2009 By 5 Comments

Courtesy of Kill the Lights.org Sep 2009

Courtesy of Kill the Lights.org Sep 2009

Some celebrity news outlets have been fooling fans for nearly two years now into believing that Britney Spears has gained increased custody since the conservatorship began in Feb. 2008.

“Kevin has sole custody over his children,” says Mark Vincent Kaplan who is Federline’s attorney.

Spears has visitation which is the “equivalent” says Kaplan to Fair News Spears.

She does not have an iota of custody. While Kaplan has detailed this in the past in at least one video interview with E! Entertainment, some Spears’ fans continue in false belief and argue at sites such Breatheheavy.com that she has 50/50 custody for which the conservatorship is responsible.

Meanwhile, celebrity news outlets such as TMZ continue to perpetuate the false story on custody. Why?

On the side, negative reports surfaced today at TMZ on Federline’s housekeeping and the suitability of his home for children. Kaplan refused comment.

It is yet unknown whether Spears’children will be allowed to accompany her on the final leg of the tour beginning in a month in Australia.

Filed Under: Britney Spears, Conservatorship, Custody, Fair news, Kevin Federline, Mark Vincent Kaplan, Shady Media Reports

Ex TMZ paparazzo wants more than medical expenses

October 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Britney in a scrum of paparazzi Oct 2009.

Britney in a scrum of paparazzi Oct 2009.


While TMZ broke the story on medical expenses and general damages claimed against Britney Spears by ex-TMZ employee Ricardo Mendoza, they left out what Mendoza is really after: punitive damages.

As reported earlier Spears’ attorney, Benjamin C. Alvarez, made a motion to strike Mendoza’s claim to punitive damages last August. Alavez says that Mendoza hasn’t made a case based on fact and uses conclusionary unsupported allegations.

Mendoza, who worked for TMZ at the time of the accident, claims Spears ran over his foot and, “…operated a motor vehicle recklessly, wantonly, unlawfully, maliciously and with conscious disregard for the rights, health and safety of others.”

Spears’attorney fired back in his attempt to dismiss the claim that Mendoza “…is a self-serving profit hungry paparazzo, who was swarming and lunging at defendant’s vehicle along with other paparazzo.”

Alvarez says that Mendoza’s complaint for punitive damages lacks fact and that subjecting Spears’ companies, such as Britney Touring, Inc. and Britney Brand, Inc., to his claims is an attempt to “up the ante.”
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Filed Under: Britney Spears, Conservatorship, Courtroom News, Fair news, Shady Media Reports, TMZ
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