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Britney has lost $60 million - scammed or not?


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Interesting that the IRS is auditing her to see if she has been scammed...What say you, people? Did she spend it on dumb things? Or was she ripped off by people around her?
kuochingtiger

11 responses // Britney has lost $60 million - scammed or not?

  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/08/usa.topstor...
    Happened to Leonard Cohen...on discovering that most of his £2.8m retirement fund had gone missing in action, Cohen claimed Kelley Lynch, his manager for 16 years, liberated it from his bank account. Leonard, a devout Zen Buddhist, stated that he was 'deeply concerned'.
    mischabarrett
  • Ha, I just read an article claiming the missile that will shoot down the defected US satellite will cost $60m! Hmmmm coincidence? I think so.
    ipodrulz
  • Yes she's being sucked dry by everyone from her Ex-husband to the doctors. You can count on that - and why is it any wonder she's distraught when she lives in a society of predators.

    When I was in business in Los Angeles and enjoying some degree of success, it wasn't but a year or so that some worthless person came along to see what he could get out of me. Los Angeles is crawling with people like that - and the worst part of it, the judicial system in Los Angeles actually enables these predators by protecting them via withholding evidence, suppressing witnesses, allowing / condoning false testimony. Been there, seen it, been a victim of it.

    These people protect like minded criminals - so it's kind of an honor among thieves, much like on Capital Hill. Look at Rocky Delgadillo, City Attorney for Los Angeles, he and his wife don't think they need to possess driver's licenses or even auto insurance, pay for damage they caused or obey city rules - like qualifying for the position of City Attorney.

    If the leadership has no regard for law, who or what's watching the hen house?

    Britney's problems are not her own, it's the people and the world around her that was insane - not the other way around.
    VoyagerFilms
  • I truly hate to be deconstructionist regarding such banality, and so, by way of this preface, I acknowledge the fact that the very act of posting such a response on this subject is an exercise in contradiction and redundancy and, consequently, I have shown myself to be somehow concerned with the topic at hand. With that said I offer the only plausible comment that I could possibly muster... Who cares what happened to that silly broads loot?

    I am, however, vaguely concerned with the previous poster's mention of a similar fiscal tragedy having befallen Leonard Cohen. That just ain't right man. LEEEEAVE LENNEEEEEY ALOOOOOONE!!!!
    Hellenbach
  • You should care and not condone criminality by passively enabling it with your acceptance, becoming complicit in it.
    VoyagerFilms
  • RE: 'VoyagerFilms'

    I "care" enough about criminality not to "condone it" by shopping at corporate mega-stores opting, instead, for locally owned businesses whenever possible. I care enough about criminality to volunteer at an organization that helps to free wrongfully imprisoned men and women who have sat in prisons for years (some, sadly, on death row) for acts they did not commit. Furthermore, I care enough to fret, daily, over the ill distribution of wealth in the world today, specifically (for the sake of this correspondence anyway) as it pertains to the mostly untalented—and consequently, undeserving—young Hollywood 'party girls.' Finally, as stated in my previous post, I care enough to be concerned with a similar crime having been committed against the painfully talented composer, Mr. Leonard Bernstein.

    My original post was obviously (or so I thought) tongue-in-cheek. I certainly did not mean to come across as crass or hubristic in any way my friend.

    I do appreciate the input, and will attempt to sound more considerate and concerned (where such concern is deemed deserved) in future posts. What I will not do, however, is shed a drop of tears, nor a bead of sweat, for some poor little rich girl who was too wasted and/or naive to select better companionship; not while there are single mothers with college degrees struggling to survive in this world—and certainly not as long as there is so much passivity within a society that condones and enables the likes of Britney Spears to be at the forefront of their preservative concerns.
    Hellenbach
  • Hellenbach, I applaud your efforts at correcting wrongs, avoiding corporate stores and so forth. Kudos to you.

    The consideration you speak of should not be inappropriately connected to whether a person deserves it or not, if some thing is wrong, it is wrong.

    Good performers give the audience themselves, they put themselves on the line, it is a gift to people. We reward them highly for it. Britney has been an awesome performer - let's not make her pay a price for her generosity of heart and spirit.

    Ya, I guess I overlooked that little $60 million fact, suspicious indeed.
    VoyagerFilms
  • ---- Voyager ----

    As I do yours sir. The # 1 reason I participate in the whole message board shtick is to learn from the opinions of others. At the most my horizons are broadened; my knowledge base is expanded by way of a new form of media and the subsequent lessons that can be culled from yet another educational resource. At worst the critical thought process is taken for a jog around the block—hopefully, someone else’s block as all too often our own becomes too familiar and we become prone to complacency. And so… Thank you kindly for the banter ‘VoyagerFilms.’

    I stand... Enlightened.
    Hellenbach
  • To both Hellenbach and Voyager - very nice little mutual preening going on there, even littered with some right on debate. But you are both missing one point - why is it ok to make blanket negative judgments anyone you don'™t know? Injustice is wrong, just as judging anyone, socialites included, for their lifestyles (which are doing you no direct harm) is wrong.

    The image/lifestyle of your average socialite is polished off in the media-manufacturing machine for our mass global enjoyment. In a sense you could say they had sold their souls and in turn we have all greedily purchased them. For example we get to blog about these people on this awesome site. But how about trying for a little compassion and sympathy instead? After all, who of us could actually thrive as integrated human beings within the seductive trap of wealth and fame, especially at the young and vulnerable ages of the women in question. We are all of us responsible for creating the phenomena of celebrity, and 90% of us buy into it at some level or another, whether positively or negatively, it's difficult to avoid.

    It's sad to me that many of us get seem to get our juice off at playing high and mighty by negating another human beings very existence. Especially when we can't even begin imagine what that persons existence actually is from the information being silver spoon fed to us via a media that hardly offers a multifaceted representation of who they truly are as an individual. And anyway, if this young woman has been illegally ripped off, we should all care; a wrong towards anyone is a wrong towards all of us.

    Lastly I have to say how obvious it is for you dudes to better identify with intellectual, groovy, Zen, Leonard Cohen, and to vilify Ditzy Britney. Perhaps you need to learn to love your own inner Britney. You know, €that gorgeous, blond, neurotic, obscenely rich party girl inside, who'™d like to get out every now and again to kick up her heels. Yer' just jealous ;)
    anniefree
  • Thank you anniefree. Would you like a little preening also?

    I'm not jealous! I am a gorgeous, blond, neurotic, obscenely rich party girl who likes to kick up her heals - on Halloween, okay not.
    VoyagerFilms
  • Ahh! Well put 'anniefree.' But just how free is Annie?

    I contend that I have never had the luxury of having anything "silver spoon fed" to me. Thus, I can take the high (or low, or parallel, or... honestly I don't care as long as it is a decidedly different...) road and lay claim—while bearing in mind the effect of mass media saturation on the collective subconscious—to the idea that I have never "greedily purchased" anyone’s "soul." I believe that that responsibility would fall into the hands of those that defend a person that they have never even met.

    I mean, please, don’t get me wrong. I am no Britney basher and I am more than in touch with my inner Brit (if, by “Brit,” we are talking about my extreme anglophilia… ‘give us a pint of the black stuff please landlord; tally ho and cheerio!’).

    Obviously though, it totally sucks to have something that you have earned stolen from you by a bunch of lowlifes. Again, this thing went from something I intended to be tongue-in-cheek, to something of an exercise in contradiction—seeing as how I have been spending an awful lot of time and syntax on a topic that I have repeatedly claimed to care little about. I believe the words went something like: “who cares about that silly broad’s money?” Yet here I am, still caring enough to come back for round after round of semantic sparring with the many fine people of current.com!*

    * That means youze guyz.
    Hellenbach

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