Striking Back: Britney Spears and the Corruption of Hollywood's Star Machine
How Hollywood Exploits Celebrities for Profit
The Hollywood star machine effortlessly transforms ordinary individuals into superstars, integrating brands seamlessly into their personas. Yet, beneath this glamorous facade lies a darker reality of exploitation and control. On rare occasions - this machine can generate a bonafide superstar from a mere mortal and the industry’s motive is to keep these superstars working. History is riddled with the stardust of expired mortals who were drained of their every last drop of sweat. So what happens when a “brand”-cum-person decides to go rogue?
Britney Spears’ story provides a stark illustration of the lengths the industry goes to keep a superstar in line. In early 2019, Britney was involuntarily placed in a mental health facility called Bridges to Recovery. This occurred shortly after she refused to continue with her new Las Vegas residency show, Domination, set to launch in February 2019. As Park MGM completed its $650 million renovation, anticipation was high for both Britney and Lady GaGa residencies.
With so much at stake, it’s possible that investors were desperate to change Britney’s mind. This article explores how powerful interests, potentially backed by billionaire stakeholders, allegedly subjected Britney Spears to coercive mental health treatment in response to her refusal to comply. With this context in mind, let's explore the following premise:
This article explores how powerful interests, potentially backed by billionaire stakeholders, allegedly tortured Britney Spears in response to her refusal to continue her Las Vegas residency.
We Ride At Dawn
“I felt like it was a form of blackmail and I was being gaslit. I honestly felt like they were trying to kill me.” - Britney Spears, The Woman In Me
The Most Iconic Work Strike In History
After years of relentless work, including nearly 250 shows for her 'Piece of Me' residency, Britney's announcement for Domination in October 2018 marked a turning point. Britney rose from a stage outside Park MGM with the accompaniment of projected visuals, flames and dancers. The Domination announcement was streamed live on Ellen Degeneres’ YouTube and Britney decided to make a point.
I walked down the stairs in my high heels to “Work Bitch” and signed a few autographs for fans. But then I did something unexpected.
I walked past the cameras.
I kept walking until I got into an SUV and left.
I said nothing. I did not perform. If you were watching, you were probably wondering: What just happened? - Britney Spears, The Woman In Me
After almost 250 shows for her Piece of Me Vegas residency and a tour she was forced to do - Britney went on strike and she was tortured in a “mental health facility” for her noncompliance.
Saying “NO!” To A Dance Move
Britney has said that the pretense for sending her away was saying no to a dance move during Domination rehearsals. The overreaction of her team included her being accused of not taking her medication and being uncooperative in rehearsals. It made no sense to her, yet it seems that these loud accusations were a cover story because the team didn’t want the public story to be: Britney doesn’t want to be labor trafficked anymore.
Britney expressed her ordeal in stark terms:
“I’d said I didn’t want to announce [Domination] because, as I’d been saying for months, I didn’t want to do it… once I made it clear I wasn’t going to keep doing Vegas, my family made me disappear.” - Britney Spears, The Woman In Me
Torture Is Not Mental Health Treatment
I knew immediately that what Britney described was not “real” mental health treatment treatment. I don’t care if Britney Spears does/doesn’t have a serious mental health diagnosis. The people who pulled off one of the biggest public perception cons in history were able to get away with it because she was perceived as having a serious mental health diagnosis.
In 2008 I watched the absurdity of the action movie that was sold to the public to put Britney in the conservatorship. I was diagnosed as having bipolar in 2007 and what happened to her was not like any procedures I had ever heard of for handling someone in a mental health crisis. Even the National Alliance on Mental Illness issued a statement at the time emphasizing that ultimately voluntary services are standard practice for people with mental health diagnoses.1
Britney is so singularly famous that the stigmatizing narratives used as a cover story for her labor trafficking adversely impacted our culture and people with mental health diagnoses. Yet even when #FreeBritney took off - mental health advocates failed to address the motive behind her treatment was to compel her to continue to be labor trafficked.
Mashable published an article neutering what actually happened to Britney by merely stating that coercive treatment is common, including forced medication, threats, or being restrained.2 At the same time, Britney has described “treatments” that many people with mental health diagnoses have experienced which meet benchmarks for tactics used in torture.34 Some of the torture tactics Britney has described include:
Humiliation (e.g. forced nudity)
Disorientation (e.g. losing the sense of time and place)
Isolation
Desperation (e.g. indefinite detention)
Manipulation with drugs
Forced medical procedures (e.g. measuring Lithium toxicity does not require 8 vials of blood a week)56
Being placed in a stress position (e.g. forced to sit in a chair for countless hours for mandated therapy)
She described some of these tactics in a deleted voice note uploaded online on August 28, 2022.
Britney has also described sustaining permanent nerve damage from her stay in the facility, which can be caused by lithium and/or sitting for long periods of time.78
Psychological Services For those Branded as Celebrities
Conflicts of interest abound in the sports and entertainment world, but having a mental health provider who also works for your employer is one of the most egregious examples. Britney, Inc. was a group of centralized players who were heavily invested in keeping Britney working. This includes the private equity firm TPG Capital having stakes in her talent agency CAA and her venue Caesars Entertainment, while her manager worked for Live Nation who controlled her ticketing and promotion.
Jamie Spears has referred to Britney as “a racehorse who has to be handled like one.” Britney, Inc. was made up almost of all individuals who prioritized generating profits over the health of Britney the person. The evidence suggests that her mental health practitioner Dr. Timothy G. Benson, who was Britney’s doctor/therapist during the conservatorship, would be motivated to keep her working. He attended University of Rochester School of Medicine 1994-2000 (Lou Taylor also hails from Rochester.) and specialized in high performers, particularly as an addiction therapist for professional athletes, and acted as a consultant to the NBA and NFL.
The Show Must Go On
So it follows that Britney’s therapist may have been externally motivated to frame her unwillingness to work as a “symptom” of her mental illness .
Three days later, after I said no to Vegas, my therapist sat me down in a room and said he had a million phone calls about how I was not cooperating in rehearsals, and I haven’t been taking my medication. All this was false. He immediately, the next day, put me on lithium out of nowhere.
It was like, it was identical to Dr. Benson, who illegally, yes 100% abused me by the treatment he gave me… And to be totally honest with you, when [Dr. Benson] passed away, I got on my knees and thanked God. - Britney’s testimony, June 23, 2021
It is curious that a mental health provider would receive “a million phone calls” regarding Britney’s mental health. If a person becomes a racehorse for a crew of oligarchs do they lose their right to privacy under HIPAA?
The explosive details Britney described in her 2021 testimony made international headlines. Yet, soon after Britney had left the Bridges facility in 2019 she had told the probate court the exact same details. Judge Brenda Penny immediately ordered an investigation into the mental health services that Dr. Benson had provided
The 48 year old Dr. Benson suddenly died on August 24, 2019, just two weeks short of when the court reviewer was set to provide their report to the court.9 Around the timing of the report Jamie Spears also requested to temporarily step down as conservator for health reasons, yet at that time an investigation had already began because Jamie Spears had assaulted Britney’s 13-year-old-son.10
The Cottage Industry of Hollywood Rehab
Celebrities rarely get the privacy everyone is entitled to when they're facing challenges with their mental health or substance misuse. The pressures of being a live performer are immense including being pushed to perform despite any type of health concern. It certainly doesn’t help that Hollywood doctors appear to be biased towards the profit driven goals of the industry and not the health of a person who happens to be a celebrity.
Recent studies have shown that celebrities have a lower health expectancy when compared to the general population which could be due to the unhealthy behaviors (e.g. addiction, eating disorders) associated with the job.11 It has also been theorized that individuals drawn to becoming famous have higher incidence of having adverse childhood experiences which are tied to higher rates of addiction
In 2007 Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan were patients at Promises Treatment Center in Malibu, California.1213 That same year an expose by the LA Times states that many of the celebrity rehabs in Malibu were not licensed to provide medical care.14 By 2010 the California Department of Alcohol & Drug Programs conducted an investigation into Promises to determine whether the center provided medical care without a license.15
So if these celebrity rehabs were not in fact medical treatment facilities then it seems that the health of their patients was not a priority. Why would celebrities attend these facilities if the facilities don’t provide evidence based treatment modalities to improve patients’ health. Thus, is the real purpose of these facilities serving the interests of Hollywood?
#FreeBritney was a Limited Hangout
A limited hangout or partial hangout is a tactic used in media relations, perception management, politics, and information management. The tactic originated as a technique in the espionage trade.
The genesis of the muscular #FreeBritney movement began while Britney was forced into Bridges against her will. These advocates brought a lot of attention to Britney’s plight, but ultimately it was Britney herself that rocked the world with her testimony.
It appears that industry operators quickly infiltrated the movement and conducted surveillance on prominent #FreeBritney advocates. yet it is unknown who exactly was compromised and if they were willing or unwilling participants. There are a host of methods for recruiting spies who can be easily manipulated, despite their altruistic motivations, because they are only provided compartmentalized information.
The Official #FreeBritney Timeline
It is very difficult to pin down the exact timeline of everything because we are working with imperfect information. The basic facts are that Britney started being sequestered in her home around December 2018 as a punishment for not wanting to follow through with Domination.
January 4, 2019
Domination is officially canceled and the public is told the cancellation is due to her father’s illness.
April 3, 2019
TMZ exclusively reported that Britney checked herself into a mental health facility approximately one week ago. Fans were already concerned that Britney has not been seen in public. At this time Britney’s instagram made a post that fans found suspicious because the caption was uncharacteristically using the emoticon :) instead of a real emoji.
April 16, 2019
A podcast called Britney’s Gram dissecting Britney’s posts aired an anonymous voicemail from a paralegal. This person revealed that Britney did not just check herself into a mental health facility, but that she had been forced to do so and has actually been in the facility since mid-January 2019.
The same day Britney’s Gram uploaded their #FreeBritney episode another podcast launched called Eat, Pray, Britney whose inaugural episode was also titled #FreeBritney. The Eat, Pray, Britney episode was even uploaded before Britney’s Gram episode. This indicates there was coordination going on between these two podcasts.
April 17, 2019
The day after the voicemail drops Eve wears a #FreeBritney shirt on a national tv show called The Talk. Britney stated that a staff member of Bridges showed her this news segment and that it meant a lot to her.
April 19, 2019
Two days after Eve wears a #FreeBrtney shirt on The Talk a similar shirt is for sale by Britney’s Gram on their Instagram. This speaks to a level of coordination behind the scenes by people who actually have connections with Hollywood insiders.
April 21, 2019:
The #FreeBritney movement was successful as Team Con felt compelled to stage a photo op of Britney in public. Britney had not been photographed in public for months.
April 23, 2019:
Britney makes a brief video saying that “All is well” while she is still in the Bridges to Recovery facility in Holmby Hills.
April 25, 2019
Britney is finally able to leave the Bridges facility undoubtedly due to the coordinated effort of #FreeBritney.
May 10, 2019
TMZ has the EXCLUSIVE that Britney tells Judge Brenda Penny about her forced facility stay, but TMZ says Britney only entered the facility a month ago.
In 2021 Britney’s court testimony was made public and went viral for the laundry list of harms she experienced. Yet, Britney had already told the judge the same exact thing two years prior and nothing changed.
“Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ, Britney has done an about-face, now telling the judge her father, Jamie Spears, committed her to a mental health facility a month ago against her will and also forced her to take drugs. We're also told Lynne Spears' lawyer echoed the allegation.”
May 15, 2019
Judge Brenda Penny orders “a probate court investigator to take a hard look at the singer's case, and wants a court investigator's report filed before Britney's next hearing in September.”
Issues With the Paralegal’s Voicemail
Around the time that Britney’s Gram released the paralegal’s voicemail they deleted multiple episodes that had recently aired. I made a Twitter thread about it a while ago because it seemed incredibly suspicious. The suspicion was fueled the content of the deleted episodes, which seem to conflict with the narrative that the voicemail wanted to see
What was in the content of those episodes and how may it have conflicted with the narrative that the voicemail wanted to sell the public?
The deletion of these episodes raised questions about behind-the-scenes activities. It became clear that there was behind-the-scenes coordination during the launch of the #FreeBritney movement. However, we have to wonder if Hollywood insiders were able to stealthily co-opt prominent advocates in the movement.
While the summaries of the deleted Britney’s Gram episodes were archived on Podchaser, this did not go unnoticed.
A Twitter user highlighted the deletions and received assurances from Britney’s Gram that the episodes would be reuploaded.
The Andrew Wallet Of It All
One prominent observation is the shift in stance by Britney’s Gram regarding Britney’s commitment to the Domination residency. This change seems advantageous for those in Hollywood who benefit from Britney's compliance, particularly if they were aiming to remove her father as conservator.
Andrew M. Wallet, installed as co-conservator of Britney’s estate in 2008, is a key figure whose actions raise concerns. While there's much to uncover about Wallet and his associates' questionable dealings, such as using estates for dubious real estate investments, it’s essential to highlight Wallet’s description of Britney's conservatorship as a “hybrid business model” and his request for a raise in October 2018 for $426,000 per year.
During the court hearing on the raise Wallet’s team argued for the which Page Six summarized as follows:
And considering that she just announced dates for her “Domination” residency at Las Vegas’ Park Theater at Park MGM, [Wallet] speculated that the “next several years promise to be very lucrative.”
Clearly Wallet was incentivized for Britney to follow through with Domination. Despite being granted a raise Wallet would suddenly resign shortly before the #FreeBritney movement kicked off. Oddly, Jamie Spears attempted to reinstall Wallet as co-conservator in August 2020, which was against Britney’s wishes and was not granted.16
'This movement on social media has definitely complicated matters. There are people lurking in the shadows pushing an agenda.
'I can't say who but it is hurting Britney, she's the only one who gets hurt by all this.
'I have my own theories and things are going to come out during discovery and the trial [to determine who gets appointed]. - Andrew Wallet in the Daily Mail, October 5, 2020
Andrew Wallet resigned his license to practice law in close proximity to when Britney regained her freedom in November 2021.
What’s In Britney’s Gram’s Wallet?
Britney’s Gram was on the scent as soon as Andrew Wallet resigned. They worked hard researching episode #69: The Subject, which is summarized as focusing on Andrew Wallet’s abrupt resignation. I’m dying to know what is going on between the MGM Grand and Andrew Wallet.
There are a lot of ways people can be compromised and it could be just #FreeBritney folks want to be rightfully compensated for their labor. The longstanding Britney website BreatheHeavy and Britney’s Gram have both said they had received threats for their advocacy.
Just before the voicemail dropped, BreatheHeavy launched paid memberships on their site.
Less than a month after the voicemail dropped the Gram Girls announced the launch of their slicker new show Toxic: The Podcast. None of the Toxic episodes appear to have ever been deleted.
A Forced Facility Stay In Three Acts
So far no whistleblowers so the best way to sketchout what happened at the mental health facility is by quoting what data that has been publicly stated by Britney.
Act I: Sequestered at Home
Britney has described that initially she was sequestered in her home by her team.
“There were six different nurses in my home and they wouldn’t let me get in my car to go anywhere for a month….
And my dad acted like he didn’t know that I was told I had to be tested over the Christmas holidays before they sent me away, when my kids went to home to Louisiana. He was the one who approved all of it. My whole family did nothing. - Britney’s testimony, June 2021
“We’re going to be sending you to a facility,” the therapist said. “And before you go to this place, over Christmas break, we’re going to have a woman come to run psychological tests on you.”
A flashy doctor - who I’d seen on TV and instinctively hated - came to my house against my will, sat me down, and tested my cognitive abilities for hours.
My father told me that this doctor had concluded that I’d bombed the tests: “She said you failed. Now you have to go to the mental health facility. There’s something severely wrong with you. But don’t worry - we have found you a small rehab program in Beverly Hills. It will only cost you sixty thousand dollars a month.” - Britney Spears, The Woman In Me, p. 229
She would leave her home for a makeshift facility after a “flashy doctor” came to her home.
A Celebrity Doctor Interlude: It Always Gets Weirder
Many #JusticeForBritney fans have theorized that the “flashy doctor” that sent Britney away was none other than the psychologist Dr. Judy Ho. Not only does Dr. Ho have an expansive rap sheet on IMDB she is also affiliated with Bridges to Recovery and the tv show The Doctors. Nothing in Hollywood seems to be a coincidence - as tight networks of players routinely collaborate together. Curiously, Britney’s boyfriend at the time was a guest on The Doctors in September 2019 mere months before the segment.
The closer you look at the story of Britney Inc. the clearer that it becomes that this is a particular set of high profile individuals that are part of the con. Take for example Dr. Drew Pinsky, who is another doctor that turns mental health into entertainment. Dr. Drew also happens to have a closer working relationship with Dr. Ho.
Since the inception of Britney’s conservatorship Dr. Drew has been running interference for Team Con.
Dr. Drew and Jamie Lynn starred in the 2023 reality show Special Forces.
Moreover, Dr. Drew is friendly with the journalist Daphne Barak. After years of public silence Barak had the fortunate opportunity to get multiple exclusive interviews with Britney’s ex-husband, children and father.
How would the cousin of Ehud Barak (former Prime Minister of Israel and associate of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein) be able to land exclusive interviews with members of Britney’s family? This is a level of immediate coordination and saturation that is easily comparable to a sophisticated intelligence disinformation operation.
Act II: An Ad Hoc Bridges Facility
Once Britney left her home she was initially in a residential program by herself for two months before going to the Bridges facility in Holmby Hills. It is here that it sounds like she experienced the worst of the abuse. It is unclear the exact location of this residence.
I worked seven days a week, no days off, which in California, the only similar thing to this is called sex trafficking. Making anyone work against their will, taking all their possessions away — credit card, cash, phone, passport — and placing them in a home where they work with the people who live with them. They all lived in the house with me, the nurses, the 24-7 security. There was one chef that came there and cooked for me daily during the weekdays. They watched me change every day — naked – morning, noon and night. My body – I had no privacy door for my room. I gave eight vials (?) of blood a week.
If I didn’t do any of my meetings and work from eight to six at night, which is 10 hours a day, seven days a week, no days off, I wouldn’t be able to see my kids or my boyfriend.
- Britney testimony, June 2021
Act III: Bridges to Recovery in Holmby Hills
“After two months in one building, I was moved to another run by the same people, and at this one I wasn’t alone. Even though I used to prefer being by myself, after two months in what felt like solitary confinement and on lithium, it was honestly so much better to be around other patients.” - Woman In Me
The Strange Ties of Bridges to Recovery
It isn’t always clear among the monied class who is good or who is bad, but they do all float around in the same business and social circles. This section is just a brief overview of some of the interesting ties Bridges has to various people, businesses and some criminal activity. My information is in bits and pieces, but in aggregate there is a compelling case that there’s something lurking under the bridge.
Ownership of Bridges
Bridges to Recovery was founded in 2002 as a luxury mental health treatment center with services provided in a private residential setting. It was announced in 2015 that Bridges would be acquired by Constellation Behavioral Health who also own other mental health and addiction treatment centers. The following year the private equity firm New Mainstream Capital acquired Constellation and it appears they still own the company.
I found it interesting that between 2008-2014 New Mainstream Capital owned Marshall Retail Group: “America’s leading specialty retailer in the airport and casino-resort marketplace.” In a marketplace of increasing corporate consolidation it may be a mere coincidence that the same private equity firm that owned Bridges used to also own Welcome to Las Vegas.
Britney was able to finally leave Bridges because of public pressure brought by the #FreeBritney movement. Britney stated that she was always texting the owner of the whole facility trying to get out. This is strange because a psychiatric patient in a facility would not have a direct line to the owner. Mental health facilities are bound by law to inform patients of their rights, including having a patients’ rights advocate.17 I do not know who Britney is referring to as the “owner”, but I do hope she preserved the texts for her record.
The Holmby Hills facility would permanently close by 2021.
The Executive Director of Bridges Qemal Shaholli
Qemal Shaholli was the Executive Director of Bridges to Recovery when Britney Spears was forced into a mental health facility against her will. In 2009 Shaholli earned his accounting degree from La Trobe University in Australia and by March 2009 he was able to start as a Controller at Bridges. He appears to have family ties to Shepparton, Australia and also ran a business called Melbourne Enterprises in California.
I really think of Britney’s instagram posts as cryptograms. She has given innumerable clues regarding what she can’t say. Given that Shaholli is from Australia it makes me recall one heartbreaking March 2022 post Britney made about her time in Bridges, which included images of the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome, the Star of David and Australia. There’s still so much mystery around her case that many people still wildly speculate about what is really going on.
Doe v. Bridges to Recovery, LLC
In January 2020 a lawsuit (PDF) was filed by Kris Doe (an anonymous Bridges patient) and their husband alleging a host of egregious acts committed by Bridges. The defendants included Bridges to Recovery, LLC, Dr. Trevor Small, Constellation Behavioral Health, LLC, Les Katz, Qemal Shaholli and Dr. Eric Strang. Kris Doe began treatment at the Bridges facility in Pacific Palisades, California in April 2019 and left in June 2019. Thus, Kris Doe’s time in a Bridges facility overlaps with the time Britney was also in a nearby Bridges facility and it is a reasonable assumption that some staff worked at both facilities
Dr. Katz subjected Kris Doe to forced sexual activity, while supplying excessive amounts of opiates which was the patient’s drug of choice. This activity by Dr. Katz is violating the core tenet of the medical profession to “do no harm.” While the case has a Stipulated Protective order (like privacy agreement/NDA) the original lawsuit provides details concerning Kris Doe’s claims
The reason the abuse came to light is because the patient's husband intercepted a text from Dr. Katz to his wife. Britney would text the owner of the Bridges facility to try to get out. He had to let her go when #FreeBritney became popular. What would the owner of a mental health facility doing interfacing on a personal level with a patient and who is she referring to when she says the owner? I wonder if this is any indication of a mental health provider having an inappropriate relationship with Britney while she was a patient at Bridges.
The Kris Doe v. Bridges case was resolved in October when the parties reached a confidential settlement agreement and it was settled with prejudice.
Ownership of the Property of Bridges in Holmby Hills
The actual property where the Holmby Hills Bridges facility (10201 Charing Cross Rd.) was owned by David Neman’s Pickford Investment Group. I was able to determine this because a Bridges employee Valena Mitchell was a Staff Assistant at Bridges Holmby Hills sued Pickford. Mitchell had sustained an injury on the property in June 2019 and she claimed Pickford was liable because they had not maintained property. The case is ongoing.
David Neman is real estate developer and his family comes from a long line of Jewish Iranian textile importers and exporters who are well established in the Los Angeles area.18 David Neman’s relatives include the founder of the successful food chain Sweet Green, as well as criminals who used the Black Market Peso Exchange to launder money for drug traffickers.
“In a typical Black Market Peso Exchange scheme, drug cartels sell their cash proceeds to a money broker who finds businesses in a foreign country that purchase goods from U.S. companies and who need dollars to pay for these goods. The money broker then arranges for delivery of the illegally-obtained dollars to U.S.-based vendors such as Pacific Eurotex. These dollars are then used to pay for the goods purchased by the foreign businesses. Once the goods are shipped to and sold by the foreign business, the money – now in the local, non-U.S. currency – is turned over to the money broker, who then pays the drug cartel in the foreign country’s local currency.” - ICE press release, December 18, 2018
As with many of the facts I included in this article, I cannot be sure that this matters. Yet, it matches the pattern of multigenerational wealthy and powerful families having entrenched power within various aspects of California society that have proximity to Britney, Inc and criminal activity.
Welcome To The Neighborhood
Enclave (noun): an area within a country or a city where people live who have a different nationality or culture from the people living in the surrounding country or city.
I got a tip that Irving Azoff controlled Holmby Hills, California. They said that nothing goes on there without Irving’s knowledge and this is the neighborhood where Britney was held against her will. I discovered that Irving owned the house across the street from Bridges Holmby Hills, which is a few houses down from the Playboy Mansion. Furthermore, a Twitter user pointed out that Diddy lives just around the corner too.
Diddy’s property is held by 200 S. Mapleton Drive, LLC. According to its 2024 California business records Lou Taylor’s Tri Star Sports and Entertainment is the company’s current business manager (9255 Sunset Blvd 2nd Floor). Tri Star’s address does not appear on this LLC’s paperwork prior to 2024. Yet, how odd is it that Lou Taylor, a key enforcer in Britney’s conservatorship, would also show up in this neighborhood? I have previously written a comprehensive history of Lou Taylor, which is available on my Substack.
The Same Mafia Family
It is a serpentine path to tie certain public figures’ timelines together. Azoff and Hefner both came out of Illinois and had a relationship with the notorious fixer Sidney Korshak.19 20 Throughout much of the 20th century Korshak was a main gateway between organized crime and the legitimate business world.
It is likely that Diddy and Hefner have each been running their own blackmail rings by secretly recording high profile individuals participating in sex acts, drug use and other illicit behavior2122 - while also being adjacent to individuals participating in drug and sex trafficking.232425 When Diddy bought his home in 2014 it was noted:
And odds are, the well-connected music magnate (famous for hosting “The Real White Party,” the summer fundraiser where A-list stars and guests don bleach-white duds) will give the neighboring Playboy Mansion competition on the social circuit. - Haute Residence, September 29, 2014.
Everyone says Hollywood is a small town, but it is not this small. Lou Taylor, Diddy and Irving Azoff all have ties back to MCA Records & Uptown Records in the late 1980s/early 1990s.2627 In the 1980s MCA had deep ties to the mafia and covert operations that have yet to be fully exposed.282930
These old ties may explain how this cast of crooks have gotten away with their crimes. Circumstantial evidence points to them all being part of a federation with the same protection racket with strong relationships with prominent politicians, top officials in law enforcement and entertainment industry moguls.
Diddy’s Star Island
Cassie filed a lawsuit against her ex-partner Diddy in November 2023, which was settled out of court the very next day.31 The lawsuit included horrifying details of Cassie’s victimization by Diddy which included sex trafficking, forced drugging, and more. Many other lawsuits against Diddy have been filed since Cassie’s, as well as a graphic video of Diddy assaulting Cassie in the hallway of a hotel.
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a lawsuit against Diddy et al. in February 2024. In that lawsuit Tri Star’s Robin Greenhill was named as a collaborator in Diddy’s RICO enterprise, including wiring money to sex workers. Greenhill was often Britney’s day to day handler during the conservatorship.
Homeland Security Raid
On March 25, 2024 Homeland Security raided Diddy’s mansions in Holmby Hills and Miami in an ongoing human trafficking operation. Diddy owns two homes on Star Island in Miami and just like his Holmby Hills home - both homes are owned by a LLC named after the home’s address, as well as Tri Star’s address on their business records.
The Miami house that was raided was 1 West Star Island, which Diddy bought in 2021 from Emilio and Gloria Estefan.32
Star Island is a unique enclave of a few dozen mansions with very high net worth individuals.33 The neighbors have included pharma tycoons, along with the Russian oligarch Vladislav Doronin. Diddy had the good fortune to be able to afford 2 Star Island too. After the raids Diddy’s son even attempted a Homeland Security dis track and insisted they were dumb not raiding the second Star Island mansion. This home is also owned by an LLC and has Tri Star's address on their recent business paperwork.
King sings, “Knock these doors down like them feddy boys running both our cribs. Too bad they ain’t know we bought the one next door cause that’s the one missed.”
The Kanye Of It All
Many stars seem to have the same constellation of handlers around them. Lou Taylor happens to work with the Kardashians,34 while Kim Kardashian was married to Kanye. Moreover, the Kardashians are lifelong family friends with the Azoffs.35 Robert Kardashian also happened to be an executive at MCA. Thus, Kanye potentially had a view into the behind-the-scenes reality of Britney’s conservatorship.
I found this tweet from @/areyouIooking quote tweeting a post by Kanye during a time when Kanye was prolifically tweeting.
Kanye had tweeted that he would try to get Irving Azoff to try to help Britney. Kanye’s tweet was deleted, but I was able to find it on two different web archives. At the time of the tweet in 2020 Lou Taylor’s name was on Kardashians paperwork.
How could Irving Azoff possibly aid in Britney’s conservatorship fight?
Kanye has discussed his close relationship with Irving Azoff in other venues as well.
Who Exactly Was In On It?
The small network that surrounded Britney’s conservatorship reaches one degree into the California governor’s mansion and the Los Angeles Police Department. I would bet that those involved in Britney, Inc. only had access to highly compartmentalized information thus it is impossible to implicate everyone who was knowingly involved in the scheme.
Yet, the court wasn’t moved by Britney’s testimony until it went public two years later. Even two years after she exited Bridges when she gave her testimony a second time she stated: “I feel like they’re making me feel like I live in a rehab program. This is my home.”
And the reason I’m telling you this is because I don’t think how the state of California can have all this written in the court documents from the time I showed up and do absolutely nothing — just hire, with my money, another person and keep my dad on board. Ma’am, my dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship and my management who played a huge role in punishing me when I said no.” - Britney’s testimony, June 2021
Britney has not received any inkling of justice and a large swath of the public has backtracked on providing empathy to what happened to her. There’s a much bigger story going on here that encompasses the foundational rot of Hollywood.
Project Rose
In examining Britney Spears' harrowing ordeal, we uncover the broader, insidious impacts of Hollywood’s star machine’s emphasis on profits on celebrities’ mental health - shockingly with the provision of phony and tortuous treatment modalities. Hollywood, often functioning as a tool of propaganda, perpetuates narratives that prioritize profit over the well-being of individuals.
Britney has not received any inkling of justice, and a large swath of the public has backtracked on providing empathy to what happened to her. There’s a much bigger story going on here that encompasses the foundational rot of Hollywood. Is it really a bizarre assertion that forces hostile to the American belief in due process were able to hijack the civil rights of a beloved pop star under the full glare of the international spotlight??? Basic facts about who was involved in Britney, Inc. are still heavily censored by the mainstream media.
Who exactly could keep such a huge secret from the public?
The exploitation of stars like Britney underscores the corruption within Hollywood, where billionaires prioritize financial gain over human dignity. This case serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need to address these systemic issues, advocate for mental health awareness, and champion the rights and autonomy of individuals within the entertainment industry. Only by recognizing and confronting these realities can we hope to mitigate the harmful effects of celebrity culture and foster a more compassionate, ethical society. The implications of the powers that be gatekeeping who can become famous, which are people they control, has serious implications in a free society.
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Call me Owen Wilson because after reading this, all I can say is 'Wow!'.
Girl, you do incredible work! You bring the receipts & you've gone further down this rabbit hole than anyone else doing similar work. I should be shocked at how deep this goes and how intertwined everyone involved with Britney are with other dodgy Hollywood dealings, but I'm not. It's so cliche to say this, but the City of Angels really is run by demons.
Thank you for doing everything that you continue to do, I love your work and your passion ♥️♥️♥️