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LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears is no stranger to being photographed, but it's not often she has her fingerprints taken at the same time.
On Monday night, Spears reported to a Los Angeles police station to face charges of hit and run and driving without a valid license, police said.
Officer Mike Lopez said Spears turned herself in around 9 p.m. and left about 45 minutes later. Spears was fingerprinted and photographed, he said.
"She was fine, cooperative," Lopez said. "She did her business and came out."
Spears, 25, was wearing large designer sunglasses and a black turtleneck dress and jacket. As she left the station, she told KCAL-TV that all went smoothly.
"They were nice," she said of police. She told the station she was wearing the sunglasses because she had pinkeye.
The charges stem from an Aug. 6 wreck during which paparazzi filmed Spears steering her car into another vehicle as she tried to turn into a spot in a Studio City parking lot. The video showed her walking away after assessing the damage to her own car.
The owner of the other car, Kim Robard-Rifkin, filed a police report three days later.
Spears had been ordered to report for booking ahead of an Oct. 25 court appearance.
She has been spending considerable time dealing with legal issues lately. On Oct. 1, a court commissioner ordered her to temporarily relinquish custody of her two young sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, citing concerns over Spears' drug and alcohol use.
She was in court last week to appeal the order and was granted one overnight stay a week with her boys, but the visits must be monitored.
Britney Spears faces bankruptcy, and may even lose the custody of her dogs
Pop diva Britney Spears is in trouble again — this time she’s facing bankruptcy. After spending over one-third of her fortune, the Toxic pop star has very little money left to pay for her own counselling and drug-testing, (ordered by a US court), before she could claim custody of her two children. “People are very worried about Britney because she is running out of money.
Her perfume didn’t do well. She has no cash flow coming in and she’s spending money like water,” one of her friends told the US media.
Moreover, Spears, who lost custody of her sons last week, is also on the verge of losing the custody of her dogs.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged her former husband Kevin Federline to take away the animals from her.
For the sake of your children and the animals who are at risk while in Ms Spears’ custody, we hope that you will do the right and best thing for all involved and pursue a custody order for the animals so that your sons can continue to have the company of the animals they’ve grown to adore,” PETA President Ingrid E Newkirk reportedly wrote to Federline.
London, Sept 23: Britney Spear’s former bodyguard Tony Barretto, who served as a secret witness in the singer’s ongoing custody battle with ex-hubby Kevin Federline, has opened the lid on her troubled life.
After Barretto's testimony last week, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon declared Britney as a 'habitual, frequent and continuous' user of drink and drugs, and ordered her to undergo random testing to get shared custody of her children.
Talking about his three-month stint as the singer’s bodyguard, Barretto said that within days of starting work with the singer, he realised that his duty was more about taking care of her kids.
“I was surprised to find how much the job involved looking after her kids,” the Daily Mail quoted Barretto as saying.
“She was always passing the kids along to us. If they were happy, she was happy. If they weren't happy, she was passing them on to the nanny or the security staff.
“She'd tell me, “We're going for a tan. Can you take the baby?” And then she'd walk off. She wouldn't really ask me; she'd just leave,” he added.
The 27-year-old also revealed some disturbing traits and bizarre behaviour the singer displayed.
“There was a time when I thought she was going to hurt the kids,” he said.
“She sent the nanny home. She sent her best friend and personal assistant, Alli Sims, home. Britney hates to be alone, so this was worrying. One of the bodyguards who had been with her longest said she was beginning to shut down as she had just before she shaved her head.”
“He said she'd been talking about suicide then, and this was the same. Britney was sobbing. She screamed.”
“(Sensing danger, his colleague said) ‘I'm worried about the kids. Don't let her go swimming with them.”
'Shocked, I asked, “Is she going to drown them?” He said, “I don't know.” I started to cry. How am I supposed to protect someone like that,” he said.
Barretto also spoke about a rehabbed Spears’ habitual drug and alcohol use.
“The first time she was at Teddy's nightclub in Hollywood in April, in a private booth. She asked me to hold the curtains up around it. After 20 minutes I looked over my shoulder, and she was snorting something out of her hand with a straw,” he said.
“One night I opened the restroom door after she'd been in there half an hour, and saw her snorting from a straw again.”
“She'd sneak out of the house on her own without security. Sometimes she'd be gone till the next morning. It was an unspoken subject, just as nobody ever asked her about drugs.”
“She was supposed to be sober after rehab, but she loved her Jack Daniels and Coke.”
“She'd always drink it in a Styrofoam cup, so nobody could see what she was drinking. 'I'd order for her, and the waitress would hand me the drink. Britney would walk upstairs to a private restroom to drink it.”
“She'd have a pint glass filled with Jack Daniels and Coke. I hated it, because we had to go up and down those stairs all night so she could drink in secret.”
An emotional entanglement with rock ‘wildman’ Howie Day, who Britney had met in rehab, also sent her berserk.
“She was, in my opinion, close to an overdose,” said Barretto.
Spears fired Barretto in May this year, for not picking up her hat, after she asked him three times.
Britney Spears's rehab clinic has become the latest target to be issued a court order by the singer's ex-husband Kevin Federline to give evidence in their custody battle.
The administrator at the Promises rehab centre will have to give evidence about Britney's parenting after she stayed there in March.
It comes after Federline's lawyer also issued subpoenas to Spears' cousin Alli Sims, her former PA Shannon Funk and ex-bodyguard Jonathan Rotem over the pair's boys Sean Preston and Jayden James.
The 'Toxic' singer is hoping that patient/doctor confidentiality will mean that they can't give too much away about her stay at the clinic, but a top lawyer has warned they could be allowed to tell all.
He said: "Because there is an issue of substance abuse and her mental state in this custody battle, the judge is probably going to allow it."
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears is no stranger to being photographed, but it's not often she has her fingerprints taken at the same time.
