Sam Lutfi says he is on Britney Spears’ side as he fights against an extension of a restraining order from her family.
“Sam and the family are communicating and cooperating trying to do whats best for Britney,” Lutfi’s spokesman, Michael Sands, said in a statement to Usmagazine.com.
In fact, Lutfi agreed to stay away from the singer through July.
At the family’s request, Judge Aviva Bobb extended the restraining order until July 31.
Lawyers were in attendance but neither Lutfi nor a member of the Spears family appeared at court.
Lutfi has been forbidden from going within 250 yards of Spears and her home since February.
In a six-page declaration released in February, Lynne Spears accused Lutfi of grinding up Risperdal, a sleeping medication, and Seroquel, an anti-psychotic drug prescribed to treat bipolar disorder, and giving them to Britney.
Lutfi himself admitted in an Us Weekly cover story that he had given Britney “a handful of pills” to help her sleep. Britney, Lutfi told Us, agreed that the meds were helping her sleep.
Spears, meanwhile, returned to the recording studio this week with former manager Larry Rudolph.
Sam Lutfi “made various demands” of Britney Spears, “including demands for money,” court documents in the singer’s conservatorship case claim.
The revelation was part of a declaration submitted by attorney Jeryll Cohen, who is representing Jamie Spears, Britney’s father and co-conservator.
Cohen said that Spears’ business manager, Howard Grossman, told her of the “numerous emails” from Lutfi with the demands.
Cohen is seeking the dismissal of Grossman by Spears’ conservators – Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet – because, in part, he will not turn over the emails despite a court order
Cohen’s filing claims that despite a court order stating that Spears lacked capacity to retain an attorney, Grossman arranged for a meeting between Spears and Adam Streisand, an attorney who claimed to represented the singer.
Also, the declaration says that Grossman authorized one of Spears’ Mercedes to be delivered to her at the Beverly Hills Hotel despite a court order to only release her cars to representatives of Jamie or Wallet.
With Jamie in charge, Lutfi was banned from contacting Spears.
Jamie and Wallet were named co-conservators of the singer’s legal, medical, and financial decisions on February 1.
The court’s decision to put them in charge was the worst-case scenario for Spears, sources told Us, as she has never been close to her father (who battled alcohol abuse during her childhood and was verbally abusive).
Spears was released from the UCLA Medical Center on February 6 after a week of treatment. She had been expected to remain hospitalized for another 10 days.
The singer was involuntarily committed to treatment for bipolar disorder on January 31.
