The Lawyer Who Freed Britney Spears Has Some Thoughts On His 'Zaddy' Status
He's incredibly humble, and wants the focus to remain on achieving justice for his client.
Mathew Rosengart (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
It’s been remarkable but I take it all with a grain of salt. To my mortification, someone sent me the “RosenZaddy” fan account (I had to look up the word “zaddy”) and some of the other tweets as well as the “Rosengod” ones. I sometimes tease the great Eddie Vedder, who is incredibly down to earth and humble, that he is, in fact, a Rock God, which he is. I had the rare opportunity of recently telling Ed that I maybe knew what he felt like for a millisecond, a very slight millisecond, which passed very, very quickly. In all seriousness, it is all very flattering but it really is about the work, the law, and achieving justice for Britney, and that has been and will always remain the focus.
— Mathew Rosengart, the Greenberg Traurig partner who was able to free Britney Spears from more than a decade of conservatorship under her father’s rule, commenting on his fleeting celebrity during the representation. “I knew very little about conservatorship law,” he disclosed in an interview, “but as some of my colleagues and others have observed, that has actually turned out to be an asset.”
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