Britney Spears is disputing an allegation she battered a female employee during an incident at her private mansion in Southern California earlier this week.
The unidentified employee made a report to investigators claiming the pop star struck her during the alleged confrontation at 10:25 a.m. on Monday, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office told the Daily News.
“She alleged Ms. Spears battered her. Deputies took a report and the investigation is ongoing. At some point the case will be forwarded to the district attorney’s office for filing consideration,” Capt. Eric Buschow said. “There was alleged physical contact.”
Spears’ new lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, said Thursday he was confident the probe would find no criminal wrongdoing.
“It’s not going anywhere. It’s an overblown cellphone incident. That’s really all I can say,” Rosengart said. “It’s overblown, gossip nonsense.”
Spears, 39, has been back in the headlines this summer amid her quest to end or revamp the strict conservatorship that has dictated nearly every aspect of her life for the last 13 years, ever since she was involuntarily hospitalized in 2008.
In dramatic, open-court statements in June and July, she accused her dad Jamie Spears of forcing her labor under duress, overseeing improper medical treatment and causing her to live in fear.
She said she wanted him removed immediately and even planned to seek legal action against him.
Jamie formally agreed to step down in a court filing last week that didn’t include a strict timeline and denied any wrongdoing.
According to TMZ, which first reported the new battery claim, the employee is a housekeeper who got into a disagreement with the “Toxic” singer over the “wellness” of a pet pooch.
The housekeeper alleges Spears slapped her phone out of her hands.
Spears made no immediate mention of the alleged incident on her Instagram Thursday morning. Instead, she posted a drawing of her holding up a bottle of hand sanitizer while wearing her iconic “...Baby One More Time” video costume.
It included the hashtag #StayHome and a caption reading, “I posted this a long time ago during crazy COVID times and I’m posting it again cause I honestly think it’s kinda cool.”
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