Britney's Housekeeper Claims She Hit Her One (Not More) Time

Just when you thought Britney Spears would be able to get back to a little normalcy, her housekeeper accused the star of battery and filed a complaint with local authorities.

Battery is a serious allegation, so what exactly happened here…

A spokesperson for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office told E! News that officers responded to a call from Spears’s home on August 16. According to E!, the employee is claiming the singer slapped a phone out of her hands after “confronting her” when she returned from a visit to the veterinarian. The employee also claims Spears “hit her hand,” but she was “not hurt.”

Remember that point 1L year when you learned that every touch that isn’t explicitly invited is technically battery?

Mistreating staff is an awful thing to do, but slapping a phone out of someone’s hands and leaving them “not hurt” is not a reason to bring the cops into the situation. That’s basically a Monday as a Biglaw associate.

This just seems… well, I’ll let Britney’s lawyer say it:

However, Rosengart explained in a statement to Us Weekly that he thinks the whole incident “is overblown sensational tabloid fodder—nothing more than a manufactured ‘he said, she said’ regarding a cell phone, with no striking and obviously no injury whatsoever. Anyone can make an accusation, but this should have been closed immediately.”

Yeah, that.

Again, treat your employees well. That goes for Britney as much as it does Biglaw. But if you are going to call the cops on the partner who threw a computer monitor at you, please let us know.

Britney Spears’s Lawyer Calls Alleged Battery Incident “Overblown Sensational Tabloid Fodder” [Vanity Fair]

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