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| | Britney Spears was arrested on suspicion of a DUI & held overnight in LA | | Added 4 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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You can believe two things concurrently about Britney Spears: her conservatorship was abusive and harmful and it needed to be lifted AND Britney needs some kind of formal structure to protect her and protect other people from her. Since Britney?s conservatorship was finally lifted in 2021, Britney has had the freedom to oversee (or not) her medication, and she?s been free to drink and party as much as she wants. In the past five years, there have been many challenges, but I believe she still has bodyguards around her some of the time, and they?ve kept her out of trouble for the most part. But not this week. This week, Britney was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. She was held overnight and released this morning.
Britney Spears has been released Thursday morning after having been arrested on suspicion of DUI in Moorpark, law enforcement has confirmed to NBC4 Investigates.
Spears was arrested Wednesday night around 9:30 p.m. after being pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Ventura County.
According to law enforcement, Spears was released shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday.
No further details were immediately available.
[From NBC Los Angeles]
I?ve long believed that Britney?s drinking and drug use has been her way of self-medicating, especially when we?re not sure if she?s even still taking her prescription medications at this point. Well, I?m glad she was pulled over and taken into custody before she hurt someone or hurt herself. I hope this is a wakeup call not just for Britney but the people who are still on her team.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Britney?s Instagram.
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| | Sarah Ferguson is possibly hiding out in Ireland, will she have to testify in the UK? | | Added 4 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, the Daily Mail finally got a tip about Sarah Ferguson?s whereabouts. Sarah has been in the wind for more than a month. She was apparently in Switzerland throughout January, then she popped back up in England for a day or two (I think), then she disappeared. Reportedly, she was in the UAE for a little while, possibly begging for money. But no one knew where she went after that. Well, she?s possibly staying at a resort in Ireland?
Sarah Ferguson has been staying in a remote Irish wellness retreat in her ongoing attempt to stay out of the public gaze after being booted out of Royal Lodge amid the fallout from her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
?The former Duchess of York, 66, fled the UK as she and her ex-husband became increasingly embroiled in the growing scandal which culminated in his arrest last week. While in the run-up to his visit from police Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was photographed repeatedly in Windsor and then on the Sandringham estate, Fergie has not been seen in public since her fleeting appearance at her granddaughter Athenas Christening at St Jamess Palace on December 12.
?This has prompted global speculation about where the former royal has been staying and the Daily Mail revealed last week that, for much of the time, she has been sheltering in a famous Swiss clinic. She is further believed to have taken refuge in the UAE where she has close contacts and prospective benefactors.
Now we have learned that she also apparently visited a second similar retreat, the Ballyliffin Lodge & Spa in Donegal where she was spotted at the local airport earlier this month.
[From The Daily Mail]
The life of a former duchess embroiled in Jeffrey Epstein-associated scandal just hopping from wellness retreat to spa to resort. I?m actually not sure if I believe that Sarah is staying in Ireland for any length of time, if she was even there in the first place. I believe she probably wants to get a great deal of physical distance from everything. Someone said Argentina, which is where her mother lived for many years. I think that?s more likely somewhere in South America, or maybe Asia. Speaking of, there?s some talk about whether Sarah could somehow be forced to go back to the UK to ?testify? against? her ex-husband? From People Magazine?s cover story this week:
Ferguson has navigated scandals before ? and often managed to recover through media appearances, book tours and carefully framed interviews. This time, no one is going to give her the airspace, royal author Ingrid Seward tells PEOPLE in this weeks exclusive cover story.
A friend describes the moment as sobering for the former Duchess of York. She always thinks she can bounce back, the insider says. But this isn?t something that can blow over.
Speculation has also turned to whether Ferguson could be called in for questioning as the investigation into Andrew continues. The former Duke of York remains released under investigation following his Feb. 19 arrest. Attorney George Kampanella, partner and head of business crime at Taylor Rose in the U.K., tells PEOPLE that would not be shielded from speaking to police if approached.
?English law does not provide a blanket ?spousal privilege? in the way some assume from TV legal dramas, Kampanella says. There is no general protection that allows a spouse, or former spouse, to refuse even to be questioned by police. If approached, a former spouse may be asked to assist an investigation or provide evidence.
However, such a discussion is hypothetical, for now. ?If she were approached by investigators, it would reflect process, not presumption, Kampanella says. And as with Andrew himself, the legal system will proceed not by association, but by proof.
[From People]
Yeah, here?s the thing I think Sarah is trash and she?s never going to have another comeback now that we?ve seen her gross emails to Jeffrey Epstein. But I also think Sarah is being scapegoated by a lot of powerful people, and those people are making a choice to put an outsized emphasis on ?Sarah needs to testify/she?s in legal trouble.? Let?s keep more focus on Andrew and the monarchy, you know?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid. Cover courtesy of People.
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| | Royalist: Publishers are 'circling' around Sarah Ferguson for a real tell-all book | | Added 4 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we?ve heard, Sarah Ferguson has been in the wind for months now. Switzerland, the UAE, Ireland have all been in the mix for ?places where Sarah has stayed or is currently staying.? She?s apparently been hopping around from one A-list luxury spa to another. The other day, I suggested that if Sarah is actually paying her bills, she?s easily blown through a million dollars in two months, purely on her luxury accommodations. But is she paying her bills? She?s famously always broke, and she famously blows through fortunes in a matter of weeks. Well, the Mail had a piece which basically asked ?how is Sarah affording her escape?? The Mail doesn?t even know, but they?ve got Andrew Lownie saying that she?s probably skipping out on the bills. Meanwhile, Tom Sykes literally went to Ireland to try to track down Sarah, only he couldn?t find her. His sources claim that Sarah?s only bet right now is a lucrative book deal for a real ?tell-all.? From The Royalist Substack:
I?ve been trying to find Sarah Ferguson over the past few days, as there are persistent rumors that she is in Ireland, potentially just a few miles away from Royalist Towers, near her mother?s ancestral home, Powerscourt.
The bad news, I?m afraid, is that I haven?t found her, but trying to track her down has prompted me to write this explainer about why I believe, for the British royal family right now, especially King Charles, the most dangerous book looming over them may not be another volume from California but a potential tell-all by Sarah.
They would be unwise to assume it will never be written, given that the former Duchess of York has little to lose at this stage. She finds herself fully cast out and ?needs money?. She has no official role and no access to public funds, and her charities have dropped her after the most recent Epstein files dump, calling him her ?supreme friend.?
At the same time, Ferguson?s taste for luxury has not dimmed. She reportedly spent nearly a month over the winter at Paracelsus Recovery in Switzerland, a hushed, ultra-discreet wellness clinic where a stay can cost around $17,000 a night. Reports describe her bouncing between borrowed villas, Gulf boltholes and high-end retreats (including one in Donegal, Ireland) even as friends brief that she is effectively broke and ?hard up, homeless and alone? after being forced, with her husband, to leave Royal Lodge.
It is exactly the combination that has always made Ferguson volatile: no money, expensive habits, and a sense that the palace has hung her out to dry.
Against that backdrop, publishing executives have already begun circling. Tabloid and celebrity outlets in Britain, Australia, and the United States have all reported that major houses have approached Ferguson about a warts-and-all memoir.
One report even suggested Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are privately anxious that Ferguson could lift the curtain on behind-the-scenes conversations around their own exit from royal life. Courtiers, for their part, fear a ?pulling a Harry? scenario: a big-money deal in exchange for a narrative the institution cannot control.
A tell-all Ferguson autobiography would be sensational. And she has already proved that she is willing to write things that upset the palace?.Prince Harry?s Spare reportedly commanded a $20 million advance and became the fastest-selling nonfiction book in history. Ferguson?s agents will therefore be acutely aware of the value of a no-holds-barred account from the mother of two princesses, ex-wife of the most disgraced Windsor, and confidante of Diana.
For publishers, the calculation is simple. Spare showed that the appetite for intimate royal disclosures is vast and global. Industry estimates suggest Prince Harry?s deal with Penguin Random House was worth around $20 million in advances alone, with total earnings higher once sales are included.
One literary source told me they thought Sarah could well get the same kind of money for a full Andrew tell-all. Whatever qualms some imprints might have about reputational blowback, there will always be others willing to pay for the scandal, the big story, the promise of secrets finally revealed on the record.
Palace optimists say that Ferguson has ?ruled out? a tell-all, saying she is too legally exposed and too protective of her daughters to go nuclear. They note that she is still, at some level, emotionally attached to Andrew and that any book that truly lays out what went on with Epstein could devastate him. That may be true for now. But her situation is, shall we say, fluid; her finances uncertain and her safety net threadbare.
[From The Royalist Substack]
Somewhat hilariously, Sykes? piece reads like a book pitch on Sarah?s behalf. The reason why the rumors about Sarah writing a book are everywhere right now is because the royal reporters are practically begging her to do it, to sell her story, to really sell every scrap of information she has about the Windsors. The thing is, Sarah might actually get a book deal, but it won?t be a deal for $20 million, nor will any respectable publisher want to get in business with Sarah at this point. If she gets a deal, it will be for low six-figures, and they?ll send her some tabloid hack to ghost-write it and get it out quickly. There?s something else too the reason why Spare was so powerful was because Harry has integrity and he owned up to his mistakes and he spilled some real tea. Sarah can?t do any of that because she would either lie or incriminate herself. And no, I don?t think Harry and Meghan are worried about a potential memoir from Sarah. I bet King Charles is worried though. Andrew as well.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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