So much for a new year, a clean slate, and a fresh start…
Popwreck Britney Spears entered 2008 as pathetically as she exited 2007… and things don’t look as if they will be improving any time soon.
For starters, yesterday Ms. Meltdown’s latest lawyer, Sorrell Trope, filed a court document asking a judge to remove him from Spears’ ongoing custody case with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
“There has been a breakdown in communications between (Spears) and Trope & Trope (law firm) making further representation of her interests impossible,” says the document.
Basically, Trope quit. Though an attorney cannot simply withdraw from a case hence Brit’s lawyer’s document asking the court to relieve him from his duties. The reason Trope wants out according to one source, “Britney’s whole life has become insane and it’s impossible for anyone to get through to her.”
But insiders told TMZ.com the real reason Trope decided to bail on Brit was because yesterday she failed to show for a deposition—again.
Strike three… make that five… for the derailed pop princess. Yesterday’s failure to appear marks the fifth time Spears missed her scheduled deposition in her heated custody battle with K-Fed. You’ll recall last month, the 26-year-old mom of two claimed she was too anxiety-ridden to sit for her depo, yet she felt well enough to party later that same night.
Trope was Spears’s third lawyer in her ugly battle with Fed-Ex. Her first attorney Laura Wasser, who (miraculously) secured her joint custody of sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, resigned from Britney’s case shortly after Spears’s divorce from Federline was finalized.
The delusional pop star then hired the firm Freid & Goldsman, but their relationship ended within days.
For some reason… cough, cough… cash… cough… Trope took on Brit’s case, but faced an uphill legal battle given the singer’s erratic behavior. Shortly after his firm took over, Spears temporarily lost custody of her sons. Trope was able to regain visitation rights for Brit, but holding on to those periods could prove tricky for any attorney given Spears’ propensity to miss drug-testing calls and skip depositions… and those are the tamest of her personal problems.