Love’s ex-lawyer told to stop talking to the media

Courtney Love Cobain’s lawyers told her former attorney, Keith A. Fink, to stop talking to the media after he continued to act as her spokesperson for more than a full month after she fired him. “From Courtney’s perspective he is not her friend. He represented her for a period of time. She was unhappy and terminated him. She was not adequately represented. She wants nothing to do with him,” says one of Love’s current attorneys Michael J. Niborski, Pryor Cashman. “At some point we had to contact him and tell him to stop representing her,” he says. Love terminated Fink in early November but he inexplicably continued to speak as her “friend and lawyer” to outlets such as TMZ and People.com about Love’s lost custody of her daughter...

Britney Spears is NOT expected at status hearing

Britney Spears is not required or expected to be at a status hearing in the conservatorship scheduled for Tuesday, said Liz Martinez of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s public affairs office on Friday. I am telling you due to rumors I’ve been hearing. Even if she were to be there, I wouldn’t trust the media to tell me what really happened. On Jan. 22, headlines buried the significance of a Spears appearance: it was only the second time in two years of being under a conservatorship by her father that she met with Commissioner Reva Goetz. Despite the rarity and possible import, headlines made Spears’ appearance into a publicity show of a charitable donations act, as though the sole purpose of her visit was to get permission from the commissioner...