Sources connected with the custody battle between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline tell TMZ $$$$ may really be at the heart of the tussle over the kids.

As we first reported, K-Fed is going back to court asking for more custody of the kids. Federline just agreed to a 50/50 split. Then, he turned around almost immediately and filed papers asking for 70/30. So why such a sudden change of heart?

It’s puzzling that Kevin is suddenly alarmed, given that he’s had absolutely no contact with Spears for almost three months. In fact, we’re told she’s begging him to communicate because of parenting issues but he won’t play ball.

That brings us to the paperwork Federline filed. Sources say there are declarations from Kevin, both of his lawyers, Kevin’s nanny and a nanny who interviewed with Britney in October, 2006, before the couple separated. In the papers, Federline’s lawyer also included various magazine articles about Britney. Legal experts say good luck getting that into evidence.

Alli Sims, Britney’s cousin, was served over the weekend. Kevin’s lawyer wants to take her deposition. Now here’s what’s telling. Federline’s lawyer also wants to take Britney’s depo, but a source connected with Alli says the deposition notice Britney received is all financial — in other words, the references are all about money, not the kids.

So does K-Fed want more custody just so he can get more cash? A Federline source says it’s all about the kids and not money. Federline wants Britney under oath talking about whether she drinks and how she parents the kids.

Oh, and by the way: Kev’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, is asking that Britney pay his legal fees for the hearing and preparation — and that they’re in the six figures.

Source: TMZ

Gearing up for what could prove to be a bruising custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline, Britney Spears apparently sought some spiritual enrichment this weekend – by shopping.

While the exercise is hardly unusual for Spears, her purchase was: a book.

Also, not just any book, but a $12.95 Hallmark gift volume, 50 Truths Worth Knowing, which she picked up, along with some candles, at a drug store in Los Angeles, photos reveal.

As the pictures show, Spears went shopping with her “cousin,” Alli Sims. The pop star’s outfit? Shades, a fedora and boots with the price tag still attached.

“If you like ‘food for thought’ you’ll enjoy a veritable feast in 50 Truths Worth Knowing,” is how the 216-page hardcover (with ribbon bookmark) is described on the Hallmark Web site. “A collection of fifty true-life experiences, this uplifting and unforgettable book offers convincing proof that the most important truths are often revealed in simple and surprising ways.”

The singer, 25, has certainly been surprising herself of late. Last week, the normally brown-eyed girl tried out green contact lenses for a video shoot in Santa Monica.

Sims, 26, too was faced with a surprise development of her own early Sunday when, after partying with Spears at a private house in Hollywood, she was served with legal papers that will force the former assistant and friend to testify at Spears’s divorce hearing.

Source: People Magazine

At 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, Britney Spears’s longtime pal, Alli Sims, was served with legal papers concerning the ongoing custody battle between Spears and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, a source tells PEOPLE.

Sims was leaving a party at a private home in the Hollywood Hills when she was served by Aaron Cohen of IMS-Security.

“Alli was really shocked and covered her face,” an observer tells PEOPLE. “[She was] really distraught and said ‘Oh my God.’ “

Spears, who was also at the party, did not witness the serving of the papers, according to the observer.

The papers are a deposition subpoena sent by Federline’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, compelling Sims to testify about Spears’s parenting skills.

Sims, who has known Spears since childhood and is regularly at her side while partying in Los Angeles, recently told PEOPLE: “[Britney] is a wonderful mom and she is so hands-on. … Britney loves those babies to death. And they adore her.”

On Wednesday, Federline filed for primary custody of the couple’s two sons, Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 10 months.

A source close to Federline told PEOPLE recently that the would-be rapper has been worried about Spears’s behavior and thinks she may be exposing the boys to “unnecessary risk.”

Source: People Magazine

In the latest chapter of the Britney Spears and Kevin Federline divorce, KFed has taken things to a new level! Life & Style has learned exclusively that Kevin’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, initiated a commando-style raid in the dead of the night, at 3 a.m. this morning, to serve Alli Sims, Brit’s assistant/cousin, with papers!

At the time of serving, Alli was at an LA house party, and was “absolutely angry” about what was happening, says an eyewitness. Only a few hours earlier, Brit was having dinner in LA with two male friends, totally unaware of the unfolding drama.

Life & Style has learned that the documents state that Alli will be grilled about everything from A to Z about Brit’s parenting skills – including whether she changes diapers, and whether the mom of two drinks too much.

The papers were served by Aaron Cohen, who owns IMS-Security, an elite Hollywood security firm made up of Israeli Counter Terror commandos.

Check out the new issue of Life & Style this week for more details on this developing story!

Source: Life & Style

This is just getting crazier by the day…

There’s a reason why Britney Spears’ record label hasn’t confirmed a release date for Spears’ forthcoming album. There isn’t one.

Gina Orr, a publicist with Jive Records, says that there is nothing currently scheduled for release from Spears. Does that mean Spears’ album isn’t on its way? Nope. Jive simply doesn’t have it on its released schedule yet.

Source: Billboard

The title of a new Britney song has been revealed, “Play”, by someone at a record label who heard a demo of it! The lyrics to the chorus are quite suggestive, “Play…/Baby turn me on…/Just a little game of one on one…”.

It is unknown whether Britney has recorded this song (yet), but the demo was definately on hold for her.

Thanks a lot to Bunxer for the info!

Click the image to view the full sized poster. Thanks a lot to LonelyBritney.com!

I once tried to explain Allure’s covers to a group of eight-year-old boys. They were visiting our offices on a school field trip (one of the boys was my son), and I was doing my best imitation of Miss Jean Brodie crossed with Jack Black. I revealed how we select our profile subjects, retouch the images, and craft over the cover lines (boys, do know what “alliteration” means?). One eager student’s hand shot up. “Have you ever had Paris Hilton on your cover?” he asked.

“No,” I said. “And if I ever do, you’ll know it’s a sign of the apocalypse.”

I wonder what those eight-year-old boys would make of Britney Spears on this month’s cover of Allure. I wonder how I would explain it to them.

The first time we photographed the former Mouseketeer, she was 18 years old and full of promise. It’s hard to remember that Britney. I’d seen her at the MTV Video Music Awards, when she ripped off her tuxedo down to a nude, sequined bodysuit and flung herself and her long blonde extensions around the stage. Anyone with a pulse could tell that this was an electrifying performer. For her second Allure cover, in 2005, Britney was slightly world-weary: newly married for the second time, she vowed to get her life, her body, and her career back in shape. This time, with two children, a divorce, a stint in rehab, and an apparently breakdown involving an electric razor, Britney seemed to be joining Paris Hilton in the tabloids with nothing to promote except questionable judgment.

Still, I had hope. Spears had been in the recording studio on and off for the past two years, slowly working on her next album. I thought we could present the profile as her comeback. Perhaps Britney’s story would be redemptive, like those of Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore, and Mariah Carey before her.

Britney showed up for Allure’s cover shoot on time and ready to work. She was entirely unself-conscious: She took off her wig and then stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before sitting for hair and makeup. She was agreeable and cooperative on the shoot and left at the end of the day, followed by a trail of paparazzi. And that was the last we saw of her.

Since then, Britney has had a dust-up with her mother, fired the cousin who drove her to the photoshoot, and been dropped by her publicist. She missed four appointments for an interview with Allure.

Britney has long lost her role-model status. That dream of a comeback seems to occupy an ever-more-distant speck on the horizon. Deeply flawed, confused, and unsure of whom to trust, Britney Spears still commands our attention — perhaps even more so now than before her life imploded. It is this phenomenon that Judith Newman captures in her story. Liberated from an interview, Newman delivers an insightful piece about the nature of celebrity in 2007. And that is why Britney is on our cover.

Linda Wells, Editor-in-Chief

CelebTV.com has the exclusive interview with Britney Spears’ car accident victim, Kim Robard-Rifkin.

The troubled singer hit a parked car on Aug. 6 with her black Mercedes convertible while shopping at an L.A. strip-mall pharmacy in the Valley.

The singer’s two children were not with her at the time, but Spears–who was not wearing a seatbelt–was clutching her new Yorkie puppy, London, the entire time while navigating her turn into a parking spot. In the process, she hit Robard-Rifkin’s silver Mercedes station wagon.

As she tells CelebTV.com exclusively, Robard-Rifkin, a Beverly Hills nurse, was at Petco picking up dog food and kitty litter on Monday when Spears–as Robard-Rifkin later learned–bashed into the back, right-hand side of her car.

“I found out it was Britney Spears who hit my car and I was sort of amused, sort of shocked, sort of like, ‘Oh, only this could happen in La La Land,” Robard-Rifkin tells CelebTV.com.

Pictures widely circulated online show Spears crouching by the station wagon to check out the damage, clad in a cobalt blue dress and holding her puppy. The singer can also clearly be seen flinging her car door open immediately after the fender-bender, hitting Robard-Rifkin’s car again.

“Of course she’ll get to me,” Robard-Rifkin remembers thinking, “because obviously there was a lot of paparazzi there and what kind of person wouldn’t realize that wasn’t going to be on TV and she had to be responsible and contact me?”

As it turns out, Spears did not contact the nurse. Instead, Robard-Rifkin found out about the accident when an Australian reporter showed up at her door at 8:00 a.m. the morning after the accident for comments.

Robard-Rifkin’s husband then went online and saw the smoking-gun pictures of Britney hitting his wife’s station wagon. “I saw pictures of exactly what happened,” says Robard-Rifkin. “It was bad enough that she hit my car, but then when she got out and slammed her car door into mine, that was sort of slightly annoying.”

As CelebTV.com is the first to report, Robard-Rifkin filed a police report against Spears Thursday morning in L.A.

This is just the latest legal trouble for Spears, whose ex-husband Kevin Federline reportedly filed for full custody of their two children, Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 10 months, on Wednesday.

Source: CelebTV.com

“We recently shot Britney Spears for the print campaign for her new fragrance Britney Spears Believe, in Santa Monica. It is true that Britney did leave the set; however, she returned after a brief time. Kylie was the wardrobe assistant on the shoot. We used her as a stand in so that we could set up the lighting while Britney was off the set. When Britney returned, we shot the national print ad with her.The only person in the national print ad for Britney’s Believe fragrance is Britney Spears.”

Source: Access Hollywood

Elizabeth Arden have put online a placeholder for Britney’s new fragrance website. The site tells visitors to come back on August 17th to pre-order the scent!

Check it out here!

Kevin Federline has filed an order to show cause for primary physical custody of his two sons with ex-wife, Britney Spears, according to a source.

The documents were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday by Federline’s lawyer, according to the source.

Spears and Federline’s divorce was finalized less than two weeks ago. At the time, the couple agreed to split custody 50-50 of Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 10 months.

But a source close to Federline told PEOPLE that the would-be-rapper was worried Spears was exposing the boys to “unnecessary risk” and that his lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, “hopes to get Kevin primary custody.”

In June, when the couple were wrangling over their divorce settlement, Federline was still resisting signing the papers over growing concerns about Spears’ erratic behavior.

Spears, who spent a stint at Promises rehab center, has been a fixture on the nightclub and party scene. The news of Federline’s request for primary custody comes as photos have surfaced of his ex-wife reportedly topless in a hotel pool.

Calls to Spears’s lawyer were not immediately returned.

Source: People Magazine

In another blow for Britney, her new fragrance, Believe, will soon come out with someone else’s tighter body on the packaging.

Spears walked out of a shoot for the perfume’s ads before decent shots were taken. But that hasn’t stopped Elizabeth Arden’s marketing campaign for the scent.

“She looked amazing, but she left the shoot three times in a state of distress before driving away for good,” the Page Six source said. “They had decent shots of her face, but not her body, so the art director made the stylist — a cute girl name Kylie Cavaco — get in Britney’s clothes and pose.

“They are superimposing Britney’s head on Kylie’s body. Kylie has the body Brit used to have, not the one she has now.”

In late April, after shaving her head and attacking a photographer’s car with an umbrella, Spears did manage to get through a cover shoot for Allure’s September issue.

Insiders told Page Six, “She did the cover shoot and was fabulous. She did everything they needed her to do. Everyone was saying how professional she was — but then, she never showed up for her interviews.”

Source: Fox News

Britney’s new scent, “Believe”, will be hitting the stores in time for Christmas, here is the official description:

“We all have beliefs that are treasures in our soul. Some are fun with a superstitious twist, others are words to live and love by, the remainder serves as inspiration when we need it the most. Britney’s next fragrance is a reflection of her soul. As she shares her beliefs, we reflect on our own.”

A spokesperson for Elizabeth Arden said Britney did the photoshoot for the print ad (below) earlier this summer.

After a brief sabbatical, it looks like Alli Sims is Britney Spears’ right-hand man once again. Robert Baker, owner of Millennium Dance Complex, where the singer’s been rehearsing for her upcoming Las Vegas gig, confirms Alli and Britney’s reunion exclusively to OK!.

“Yes, it looks like Alli is back,” he tells OK! “I know she was due for a break since she has been working as Britney’s de facto manager for months and has been attending to Britney’s needs every day since she left rehab.”

The time apart was necessary and well-deserved for the aspiring performer, Robert says.

“She was sort of thrown into this months ago, at a time when Britney needed support and a solid confidant she could trust.”

But Alli’s break wasn’t all rest and relaxation. The 26-year-old spirited to Las Vegas to orchestrate her cousin’s Aug. 31 performance at LAX, Sin City’s newest club, and has been handling all of her future projects.

Now that she’s attached to Britney’s hip again, expect the pop star to get back on track.

“Alli made sure Britney was healthy and working out every day and keeping a nice balance in her life, given the pressure she was under,” Robert says.

Without her cousin, there was no one to keep Britney in line.

“When Alli is not around, Britney kind of does her own thing and often flakes out on important things like the callback she held but didn’t show up for last month,” a source at the dance studio tells OK!.

The 25-year-old mother of two is keeping her appointments now. She met with a choreographer – who is also a friend of Kevin Federline’s – earlier in the week and plans to start rehearsals next week for the eagerly anticipated performance.

“The show in Vegas is going to be simple,” the source adds. “A couple of numbers with that video [she shot a few weeks ago] as the intro to the show. She’s talking about that new song. I think it’s called ‘Get Out,’ but I’m not sure. She’s working with funeral get-ups, sort of the whole metaphor of burying the past. Should be fun.”

Source: OK! Magazine

Britney Spent 8 hours at a club in LA yesterday finishing off her new music video! She left wearing a see-through white top with spandex hotpants, a leapord print bra and green contact lenses!

Now the video is finished, it shouldn’t be too long before we can hear the single…

You can view the pictures of her leaving the set at the forums.

HERE’S topless BRITNEY SPEARS romping in a pool with a complete stranger just hours after her music video meltdown.

My pictures show the crazed singer pawing at student Mike Encinias soon after sobbing uncontrollably at the shoot for her new single.

Onlookers watched in shock as Brit - who divorced KEVIN FEDERLINE days later - stripped at a hotel pool.

Brit swigged from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and downed Mojito cocktails before flashing her breasts and playing a game of truth or dare.

American Mike kept his trunks on as straggly-haired Brit - who had a 1999 hit with Crazy - groped him.

Mike was an extra on the video shoot and says she later tried to seduce him in her hotel suite - while wearing nothing but a pair of pink pants.

He said: “I went in and found Britney lying on the bed with her knees up and just a pair of pink panties on.

“She was looking like she was ready - and I wanted to finalise it.”

Britney and Mike had been passionately kissing in the pool of downtown LA’s Standard Hotel just a few hours earlier.

The singer had pulled the plug on the pole-dancing shoot for Give Me More after breaking down and sending the crew home.

Britney’s assistant hand-picked Mike and a group of male pals to go to her hotel for drinks by the pool.

Mike explained: “Britney was drinking Mojitos and she’d been drinking some Jack Daniel’s

“Suddenly she shocked everyone by just stripping out of her top.

“She went into the pool topless - her boobs were exposed and she had a drink in her hand and a hat on with sunglasses.”

Mike says he kissed Britney after her assistant told him the singer wanted to “make out” with him.

He said: “She straddled me and put her legs around me.

“When I started kissing her I did everything in my power - from my previous experience of kissing girls - not to mess it up.

“Britney had more drinks - she was having Jack and more Mojitos in between me feeling her up, her boobs, and kissing her on her neck.

“Her body was very nice. It was sexual and sensual kissing. It took some effort to perfect.

“She is a great kisser - I’d actually say a phenomenal kisser.”

Mike was invited back to Britney’s suite once the party was over at 4am.

He was planning to spend the rest of the night in her bed — until one of his friends collapsed and nearly drowned from all the booze he had downed.

Britney’s bodyguards stepped in and ordered Mike to take his mate home.

Mike added: “In the end we had to say our goodbyes.”

Source: The Sun

I’m sure most of you have noticed that the site isn’t as popular or updated as it used to be! Back in 2004/2005 it was one of the most visited Britney sites on the internet…

I’m hoping to change all that and make BritneySpy.com the site it once was again!

But I need YOUR help! Do you have experience in updating websites? If you do, or if you want to learn please get in touch. I’m also looking for people with layout concept ideas, or general ideas for the site.

Soon, the site will look a lot different and have a totally different format than the current site and previous layouts. I’m not going to say too much now or it won’t seem like such a big change when it happens!

If you want to be a part of making the site huge again, contact me here, and include as much information as you can!

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