However, sources say the salary isn’t unearned. Apparently Jamie did the job of five people on the tour, thereby ensuring that Britney and Co save more than a million in salaries for people they would have hired. Let’s call that money well spent.

Meanwhile, Jamie Lynn Spears debuted her country music career. So we’ll see how that goes.

That’s what Sam (Osama) Lufti’s sister Christina alleged yesterday at his restraining order hearing. Sam was the great “manager” who kept Britney Spears prisoner in her own house and hid all of her cellphones, while she went batshit crazy.
Christina testifyeth:

“[Britney] told me she wanted to get a hold of Sam,” said Christina, 25, whose brother had once been Spears’s manager. “She wanted him to help her find a lawyer, and wanted someone to get a prepaid cell phone to her. She was scared because her father was blackmailing her with visitation rights over her kids.”
Spears allegedly told Christina to meet her on the fifth floor gym of the Peninsula Hotel on Jan. 16. When Christina arrived, Spears was working out with her mother while a bodyguard stood nearby. But they rendezvoused in a sauna where Christina gave her a phone, saying it was from Sam and ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib, which Spears then hid in a locker. “She asked me, ‘Will Sam be able to help me?’” Christina added.

The phone, however, was later discovered by Spears’s security team and confiscated from her purse.

Britney is locked DOWN, y’all. She may LOOk like she’s naked and free, but Papa Spears has that conservatatorship in his iron grip. Good luck, slimy stalkers Sam and Adnan. No gas station runs for y’all anymore!

Imagine Papa Spears’ dismay when Brit-Brit showed up with a prepaid cell phone recently. Her security team confiscated it from her purse while she was at a dance practice. When she was confronted, Brit admitted the phone was given to her by someone during a hotel stay.

THAT person, she confessed, got it from ex-manager Sam Lutfi and former boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib. Britney’s darkest days were when she was living under Sam Lufti’s spell, he locked her down tighter than Papa…to use her, not to help her. Adnan was there to help keep an eye on Brit at all times.

Jamie Spears described the cellular phone incident in testimony Monday in an L.A. court, as he sought to maintain a restraining order against Lutfi, whom Jamie has claimed harassed Britney and has sought to undermine Jamie’s legal control over her life. Jamie testified:

“When Lutfi was in so-called control, she’d lost everything – her kids and career,” Jamie said at the hearing. “I believe he’s a predator, I believe he’s very dangerous to her … and causes her a lot of anguish and disbelief. We’ve asked him to go away before, and now he’s coming back. We just want the man to go away. Just leave us alone.”

Jamie also talked about the darkest night for Britney, when she was forcibly taken from her home after locking herself in a bathroom with her son Jayden, leading to her first hospitalization last year.

“She was told by Lutfi she could have her children for another night,” Jamie said. But when a bodyguard for her ex-husband Kevin Federline arrived to get the children, “She didn’t want to let her kids go because she thought she could have them for another night,” Jamie said.

He then somberly described Britney that night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as “kind of wild” and “just very messed up.” Before he took legal control, he testified, Britney’s life “was pretty well a disaster. She had nothing going on, just mostly being in the tabloids.” But today she’s “very stable, making her meetings, taking care of her babies, doing things she’s supposed to do,” he said.

The hearing will resume tomorrow. Fight on, Papa Spears! Keep the crazy scumbuckets away from Brit-Brit!

Membah back in the craaaazy Britney head-shavin’ gas station hoppin’ days? Then you surely haven’t forgotten her prince from the papz…Adnan Ghalib… who got to be her boyfriend for a couple of months. Months where Adnan and shifty bud Sam (Osama) Lufti kept Brit-Brit prisoner and pumped full of drugs, until Papa Spears had to bust some heads, and get restraining orders against both of those fleas.

Now, Adnan is in even BIGGER trouble. He’s under investigation for felony assault with a deadly weapon with a vehicle. Here’s the story… yesterday morning, a process server went to Adnan’s apartment in lovely Encino to serve his azz and order him to appear in the restraining order case.

The process server was waiting for Adnan in the alley when the former papz rolled up and allegedly hit the guy with his car. The process server says he landed on the hood of Adnan’s car. Adnan was known to be THE MOST aggressive driver in all of the Britney economy. Not a small feat.

Adnan allegedly fled the scene and the process server called cops at 10:42 AM. Police arrived and noticed the process server had cuts and scratches, but he refused treatment. The case is under investigation. Ghalib is the suspect and the alleged crime is assault with a deadly weapon with a vehicle — a felony.

Hate it for ya, soul patch!

Papa Jamie Spears, now in permanent control of Britney’s entire life, apparently is refusing to work with OK!, and the tab has banned its staff from Spears events! Natch, a rep for OK! denies all, saying:

“We always follow the Spears- in fact, Britney is on our current cover, and we’ll continue running stories about them. We need them and they need us.”

We’ll see if the recession changes anyone’s mind about an end to the long relationship…Britney has no lack of scandal these days, even though Papa Spears is running the show. Her new single, “If You Seek Amy”, is the subject of much global hand-wringing. The naughty tune has been banned from Australian airplay, and may suffer the same fate in the U.S.

The agreement gives permanent control of the singer’s finances to Papa Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet. Jamie will be the sole conservator over Britney’s personal life. For life. Mind-boggling! In the court papers pertaining to Britney’s financial matters, it says Britney “is substantially unable to manage … her financial resources or to resist fraud or undue influence.”

When it comes to Britney’s personal life, the papers state she “is unable properly to provide for her personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter.” The personal order also gives her father “the power to restrict and limit visitors by any means.” So, Brit-Brit still doesn’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain, or ingest things besides cheetos and frappuchinos. Okay, now daddy will eternally keep an eye on her. Just one problem…who’s watching Jamie-Lynn?

Reports say one reason the extension to make it permanent was desired, is that it may make it easier for her to regain custody of her two young boys. With a conservator, there’s an added layer of safety for the boys. All of Brit’s business affairs and career decisions will also be handled by the conservator.

Permanent conservatorship eliminates the need to keep extending the existing temporary conservatorship. If Britney can keep it together for a good while, it could be lifted. Right now is NOT that time. She’ll have a medical and psychiatric team involved in her career to ensure she doesn’t hook up with another shyster like Sam (here’s some medicine) Lufti, or get involved with something else that’s detrimental to her mental health. Cheetos are allowed.

The commissioner added, “The conservatorship is necessary and appropriate for the complexity of financial and business entities and her being susceptible to undue influence.” So… Brit-Brit AND HER HAIR are safe for now. Whew!

It’s been a wild ride for everybody. … She’s out there, she’s with the crowds and with her peer groups, and she’s doing things. … I have sat for hours, thinking about everything that’s happened.”

Sitting. Not doing anything about it, but thinking about it. Helpful! Lynne sat by while Britney shaved her head and went batshit crazy. Fortunately for Britney, her dad has some balls. Jamie Spears DID something while Lynne was sitting and thinking. Jamie’s intervention may have saved Britney’s sanity and her life. She’s still on the road to recovery, but Snarkista is thrilled for Britney’s VMA victories. They surely must have helped her self-esteem.

Here’s Lynne’s interview with Meredith Viera.

Brit’s reps tell Access Hollywood that it’s bogus, and Quentin will not be riding on the Spears crazy-train. Yes, sadly, they’ve already denied everything. Snarkista is PISSED! A Britney-Quentin combo had such enormous WTF potential!

Britney’s party-killer reps allow that:

“Though she definitely intends to explore acting roles down the road, right now she’s concentrating on recording her next album.”

Translation: Britney’s tied up (literally) in the studio right now playing with cheetos and cigarettes. We’re faking up some shizz for a release, and there’s no way in holy hell she’s gonna come within 3 states of Quentin Tarantino. Britney get THAT kind of behavior reinforcement? Oh, HELL no. Papa Spears has been working TOO effin’ hard to have it blow like a meth lab within 30 minutes.

So Lee is the flavor of the week, and is the fourth member of Brit-Brit’s staff dated by the popwreck. Lee’s worked full-time for Brit for the past six months. He’s has been spending his days off by her side and has now even started sleeping under the same roof at her LA home. A source tells The Sun

Britney and Lee hit it off immediately. He is her perfect type. She loves guys who work out and he is in great shape from his days serving in the Israeli Army.He also has a few tattoos, which she loves. They’ve spent so much time together that one thing led to another and their relationship became physical. They are in Mexico together. They’ve been having a great time — Lee’s put a smile on her face.

American-born Lee was the mystery man snapped earlier this week dancing with Britney at the side of her Mexico hotel swimming pool. He’s probably helped put Britney through her paces as she’s battled to lose the cheeto belly.

Snarkista guesses a bodyguard IS a step up from jailer Sam Lufti, who looks like a greased pig, or superpapz Adnan Ghalib who we PROBABLY haven’t heard the last of. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the rumored sex tape between Adnan and Brit materializes, if Britney doesn’t let him back into her life after Papa is removed as her conservator.

When that happens, which could be soon, it will be a huge IF for Britney. When she has control of her assets and her life again, don’t think for a second that the leaches and the swarms of papz won’t come storming back in. It’s just a matter of when. Keeping Lee around, with his Israeli army experience, may be a smart move for Brit. She’s gonna need someone who’s not afraid to kick a bunch of ass and ruin a bunch of names.