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Be back later with part one’s naughty and nice list.
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Sam Lutfi and his attorney, Joseph Schleimer, tried to pull Lynne Spears off the Femme Fatale tour in November claiming Lynne was a liar and was stalling on being deposed by a Dec. 25 cut-off date, say court documents filed Nov. 14.
Schleimer based part of his argument on an email from Lynne’s attorney concerning Lynne’s availability for a deposition.
“I have been trying to determine whether Lynne Spears would be available in Los Angeles (or New Orleans) on Nov. 18 or thereabouts,” says attorney Michael Adler in a Nov. 7 email to Sam’s attorney. “Communications have been delayed by the fact that she is currently out of the country with the Femme Fatal tour (she is tutoring Britney’s children since they are out of school and traveling with the tour).”
In an attempt to rush Lynne back into the country Schleimer calls Lynne a liar and claims that Lynne was “partying in Nashville” and “hosting a barbeque” on Nov. 7, say court documents.
Lynne was in Nashville attending her younger daughter’s singing premiere. Party on.
Lynne’s attorney retorted to Schleimer by saying that the international Femme Fatale tour had made communication difficult, say court documents opposing the immediate removal of Lynne from her daughter and South American leg of the tour. The court ruled finally for Lynne to appear for a deposition after the tour’s end on Dec. 10.
Meanwhile, attorneys for Lynne, Jamie, the conservatorship over Britney and the co-conservators of her estate, had tried to complete their deposition of Sam since April 2011. They deposed him April 25 for one day but he was supposed to sit for consecutive days. It wasn’t until Spears’ team filed a motion to compel Sam’s deposition on Nov. 1 that he and his lawyer complied to an “or else” Nov. 28 deadline.
When finally scheduled to sit for a sixth day of deposition during the week of Nov. 14 Sam’s lawyer filed the ex-parte (emergency, without notice) motion to bring Lynne back to LA. It only took six months for Sam and his lawyer to arrange for Sam to be deposed while aware they couldn’t depose any of the defendants based on early agreement to depose Sam first in 2009. Sam still wasn’t done when he and his lawyer tried to harness Lynne.
Tune in this weekend to learn who accompanies Jordan Miller, breatheheavy.com, on the naughty or nice list.
