Judge: It's a Spears Family Affair

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Libel claims against Britney Spears' mother will likely remain part of a lawsuit by the pop star's self-proclaimed ex-manager that also names the singer and her father, a judge said Thursday.

Osama "Sam" Lutfi alleges the pop star's mother, Lynne Spears, defamed him, the singer's father, Jamie Spears, assaulted him, and the performer still owes him money for management fees.

He claims that Jamie Spears punched him in the chest at the singer's home in January 2008, and that Lynne Spears' book, "Through the Storm, A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World," contains false information, including that Lutfi admitted he threw away Britney's phone chargers and disabled her house phones in an attempt to isolate her from her family.

Lynne Spears notes in her court papers that some of the statements in her book recount -- often word for word -- what she said in a defamation-proof court declaration in favor of the issuance of a temporary restraining to protect her daughter against Lutfi.

Her attorney, Michael S. Adler, argued in court documents that the claims by Lutfi for libel and defamation should be dismissed because they interfered with her right to free speech. He also is asking the judge to throw out an allegation of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Zaven V. Sinanian rejected arguments that Lutfi was legally "libel-proof," a term referring to someone whose reputation has been irreparably stained by prior published statements.

"My opinion is that a prima facie case has been made in this circumstance," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Zaven V. Sinanian said after hearing a motion by Lynne Spears to dismiss all of Osama "Sam" Lutfi's allegations.

However, Sinanian said he was taking the motion under submission and expects to have a final ruling in a few days.

"I want to look at the papers again to make sure I've covered all my bases," Sinanian said.

Lutfi's lawyer, Bryan J. Freedman, said after the hearing that he was encouraged by Sinanian's comments indicating he is leaning toward denying Lynne Spears' motion.

"I think there's no question we will prevail on this motion," Freedman said.

In a sworn declaration also filed with Lynne Spears' court papers, Chip MacGregor, her book agent, states that sales of "Through the Storm" have been disappointing. The poor sales may be attributable to the fact there was "little news in the book," according to her court papers.

The Lutfi suit was filed Feb. 3, four days after Britney Spears was granted a temporary restraining order against Lutfi, her 36-year-old former boyfriend Adnan Ghalib and attorney Jon Eardley, forbidding all three from having contact with her, her parents and her two young sons.

The order was later extended until 2012 against Ghalib first, then later until the same year against the other two men as well.

Lutfi has appealed the order.

Source: NBC

Britney's Former Pal -- They Ruined My Life!

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Britney Spears' former BFF has filed legal papers in his defamation lawsuit against Britney and her parents, claiming they have ruined his life.

The devil Sam Lutfi claims Lynne Spears' book about her famous daughter is a pack of lies, especially the part in which she says Sam told her he secretly ground up pills and put them in Britney's food.

Lutfi says as a result of the book, "I am constantly in fear for my life..." He says he was "harassed and cajoled by the public." If our memory serves us correctly, Lutfi was cajoled long before Lynne's book was published.

Lutfi trotted out his own cast of character witnesses in the new legal docs -- notably the infamous Adnan Ghalib -- currently being prosecuted for felony battery. Adnan wrote a declaration, claiming Lynne's assertions that Sam was effectively holding Britney hostage were false.

Source: TMZ

Spears 'Signs £10m Autobiography Deal'

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Britney Spears is reportedly close to signing a deal worth £10 million to pen an official autobiography.

According to The Mirror, the 'Circus' singer has already teamed up with a literary agent and is expected to begin writing the book following her world tour.

"There have been numerous unofficial biographies printed about Britney, but she's never agreed to pen her own tome - until now," said an insider.

"And some of the stories she's got are absolute dynamite. She's kept diaries so there's nothing she'll leave out unless she wants to."

The source added that Spears could eventually write "between three and five books throughout the next decade", adding that it was "one of the most lucrative deals in showbiz history".

The 27-year-old's mother Lynne released her own autobiography last month, entitled Through The Storm: A Real Story Of Fame And Family In A Tabloid World.

Source: Digital Spy

Lynne Spears On Britney’s Return To Performing: ‘This Is When She’s Most In Her Element’

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On the eve of Britney Spears’ return to U.K. television this coming Saturday, her mother Lynne Spears told Britain’s “GMTV” that the pop star is eager to perform.

“I think Britney’s just ready to get started again,” Lynne, who appeared via satellite, told “GMTV” host Lorraine Kelly “This is when she’s most in her element.”

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Britney will appear on “The X-Factor” in Britain this weekend, following a stop in Germany, where the singer is presently.

When asked if Britney’s recent career moves mean she’s back, Lynne, who was promoting her own memoir during the appearance – “Through The Storm” — said things are still working themselves out, but everything was following the right path.

“The balance is going to have to be worked out with work and everything, like any other performer has to do,” Lynne said. “But… everything is gonna be fine because we have a lot of people… that are helping us now. We’re gonna get this done and it’s all gonna be good. You just wait and see.”

When asked why Britney has been doing so well of late, Lynne said it was thanks to the support of those that love the singer.

“I think with a lot of love and care and help,” Lynne said. “Sometimes you have to just settle down. You have to stop [and] think. There’s a lot of people that care about Britney and love Britney and Britney’s doing great now.”

And the singer is also thriving as a mother to Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2, Lynne said.

“She’s a wonderful mother,” Lynne smiled. “She’s funny, she’s extremely affectionate and she’s just a normal mother.”

Source: Access Hollywood

Lynne Spears: 'Things Are Looking Up Again'

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After a year of upheaval for her family, Lynne Spears exclusively tells PEOPLE.com that she's cherishing the "small things" like taking Britney's sons Preston, 3, and Jaden, 2, for a spin in her golf cart and planning a shopping trip with Jamie Lynn because 3-month-old Maddie is "growing out of all her clothes."

"Really wonderful things are happening now," Spears, 53, said Saturday. "It looks like things are looking up again."

PEOPLE caught up with Spears at the Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) 20th annual convention in Grapevine, Texas, where she was a surprise guest speaker. She shared with the crowd of 4,500 mothers what it's like to face criticism for the way she raised Britney, 26, and Jamie Lynn, 17.

"I had a perfect little plan," she said, explaining the parenting journey chronicled in her memoir, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World. "But, you can't control the [kids]' peers, you can't control society and you do the best you can."

Lynne is making plans for the whole clan to get together. She especially loves doting on her three grandchildren, who call her "Me Maw."

"The seasons are changing and things are good this year," she says. "I am so happy where we are right now."

Spears, who appeared at the MOPS convention with co-author Lorilee Craker, said her deepest wish for the future of Britney and Jamie Lynn, is simple: "I would like smooth sailing for my children."

Source: People

Lynne Spears: VMA win gave Britney a boost

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Lynne Spears said she couldn't have been happier that her pop star daughter Britney won three MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles last week.

While Spears was on "Inside Edition" to talk about her new memoir "Through the Storm," she revealed what it was like to watch Britney collect three of the night's top prizes, just a year after she gave a widely panned performance at the 2007 VMAs.

"This was what she needed for that boost of ego," Lynne Spears told "Inside Edition. "You know Britney has gone through a lot and there's no one that deserves it more than her. I couldn't have been happier that night and neither could she. After the first award, she called me and we were just squealing on the phone."

Spears also admitted she doesn't understand why the media attention surrounding her daughter is so intense.

"People are just drawn to her, to watch her. I don't know, I don't get it... but people are mesmerized by her," Lynne Spears said.

Source: Upi

Lynne Spears: In Her Own Words

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It was all across the tabloids over the last year: Britney Spears' life looked like it was spiraling out of control, and the paparazzi crush was capturing every moment of it. Then, it was announced that Britney's 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn was going to have a baby. Now, Lynne Spears is talking to ET's Jann Carl about her world-famous daughters -- and the nightmare of fame -- from the inside out!

"Is it human nature to want to build somebody up so very, very big, and then actually enjoy tearing them to pieces?" asks Lynne in her emotional interview, saying of Britney, "I want her to remember back when she was the happiest person she could be, and be that person. She's almost there now."

Lynne says her daughter Jamie Lynn broke the news to her that she was pregnant by writing her a note. "I blew it," she says about her reaction -- after first thinking it was a joke -- but then faced the challenge head-on: "We got the biggest blessing through the toughest time."

Lynne's new book, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, is on bookshelves now. It's a mother's story of keeping her faith and keeping her family together. Lynne also gets candid about both her successes and her failures. Did the whirlwind of fame distract her from listening to her mother's intuition?

"I didn't feel very strong," she says. "All I knew was at certain points I had to do what I had to do."

With the opening words, "If you're looking for parenting advice, you've opened the wrong book," Through the Storm is clearly not a collection of advice or a guide to making your kids famous. Instead, it tracks the incredible story of how a mother's encouragement for her children's dreams turned into a nightmare of paparazzi, tabloid exploitation and, for a heartbreaking stretch, a time where she lost the family she loved -- all written while it was all happening.

"I'm more or less a cheerleader," she says. "Did I ever manage my children? No. Did I ever take any percentages of anything they ever did? No, I did not. I really don't know how to do these things."

Ultimately, after all her family's been through, she says, "I just pray for smoother sailing."
Watch ET tonight for more with Lynne Spears!

Source: ET Online

Si Tempts Brit Back To Britain

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BRITNEY Spears is returning to Britain to star on The X Factor.

The pop megastar, 26, will perform comeback single Womanizer on the show in December.

The appearance is her first visit here since her Onyx Hotel tour more than four years ago — and marks her continued recovery after a public meltdown last year.

Thrilled

An insider on Simon Cowell’s ITV1 hit said: “Everyone is thrilled. To have Britney involved is a massive coup. They expect ratings to go through the roof when her performance airs.”

Meanwhile, Britney’s mum has denied pushing her into the limelight — and said she became famous too young.

Lynne, 53, said on US telly: “Britney pushed me. What was I to do? Persuade my child not to go after her dreams?

Ugly

“She was in high school, was the homecoming maid and was most popular. She had everything going for her.

“I could not understand why she wanted to leave such a happy little nest.”

Lynne said everything was “wonderful” during her meteoric rise after 1999 debut hit Baby One More Time — but they weren’t prepared for the “ugly side of fame” which led to her breakdown.
It saw the star shave her hair off and lose custody of her two kids.

Lynne said she did everything she could to help her at the time.

But she thinks twice-divorced Britney, who releases her sixth album Circus in December, is now “headed to the top again”. She said: “We’re through the storm and looking at the sunshine.”

Source: The Sun

Lynne Spears: Britney's Fine!

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In a rare TV interview, Lynne Spears appeared on NBC's The Today Show on Wednesday, where she opened up to host Meredith Vieira about how her youngest child, Jamie Lynn Spears, told her that she and boyfriend Casey Aldridge were expecting a child.

"She hands me a note and tells me to go into the bedroom and read it," Lynne recalled. "It said she was pregnant and everything was going to be okay.... I thought it was a joke. I kept waiting for the punchline."

But after noticing that Casey, who was in the house was the bomb was dropped, couldn't look her in the eye, Lynne realized this was no joke.

"I was in shock... I started to cry," said Lynne, who also revealed that, as a mom, she tends to take the blame for all her children's mistakes on her own shoulders. "What did I do?" she asked herself at the time. "I took all the blame... It's always my fault."

As for her other daughter, Britney Spears, who has seen her life go from the top of the pop charts to the bottom of the tabloid barrel and now once again surging, Lynne says, "She's strong, she's resilient... Britney's fine... She's headed to the top once again."

Source: OK Magazine

Lynne Spears on Britney: "We Didn't Know What We Were Doing"

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Lynne Spears admitted on Wednesday's Today show that her family wasn't ready for Britney's fast rise to fame.

Asked by Meredith Vieira if she wishes she had done things differently, Lynne said, "shoulda, coulda, woulda."

"It's kind of like Britney was sent out into the world a little bit prematurely," Lynne said while promoting her memoir Through the Storm.

She denied she was ever a stage mom, saying, "Britney pushed me."

When Britney began her career, Lynne said she was a single mom who also had to raise Jamie Lynn, so she couldn't always be there.

"Did I want to be there? Of course!" she said. "Was it feasible? It wasn't."

Lynne compared her situation to when parents send their children off to college.

"You don't really know what they're doing in college ... just as Britney set out two years earlier to be a star," she said.

"She's out there, she's with the crowds and with her peer groups, and she's doing things -- she's a celebrity, for heaven's sake!" Lynne added.

Lynne said she felt she lost control the moment Britney posed nearly naked with a Teletubby on a 1999 Rolling Stone cover.

She said she wouldn't have agreed to let Britney strip down, but "we didn't really know what we were doing."

"We were so in awe," she said. "I never even bought [Rolling Stone], but I just heard this is a really big deal."

"We were kind of in shock at what was going on," Lynne continued. "It was a two-day shoot. Thank god [manager] Larry Rudolph came in and said, 'Stop, that's enough.'"

Lynne added, "We didn't have any choice over pictures ... We had no one who could tell us what we were supposed to be doing."

Did Lynne get sucked into fame?

"It was more of an excitement at first," she said. "It seems like everything's fabulous: Look at the trips she gets to go on!

"There was that honeymoon period where it looked like she could do no wrong," Lynne said. "Then there's that ugly side of fame ... and we weren't ready for that."

As things started to unravel -- Britney's 55-hour marriage to Jason Alexander, two kids in two years, her K-Fed divorce, the shaving of her head, stints in rehab -- Lynne said, "it was so crazy
.
"I don't think anybody was even trying to sit and think of what was going on," she said. "We were praying very hard. It seemed like we had no control over what was happening."

She was so desperate to get in contact with her daughter she said she remembers telling her friends: "If you see my behind going over that wall into the Summit [Britney's house], it's me because it's my last drastic measure."

Looking back, Lynne said, "I have sat for hours, thinking and thinking about everything that's happened. It's been a whirlwind. When you mix extreme heightened celebrity hood and then when you have heartache ... The mixture's just not healthy."

Source: US Magazine

Lynne Discusses "Through The Storm" On Camera

Lynne Spears' Tears For Britney

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BRITNEY SPEARS' mother LYNNE has told how she wept at the recent MTV Video Music Awards - because she was so happy to see her daughter back to her best.

Britney wowed the audience at the Los Angeles event last Sunday when she picked up three awards for her recent musical efforts.

And opening her heart in her gripping new book, Lynne admits it was an overwhelming moment to see her daughter's amazing recovery - just months after the singer's public breakdown which saw her admitted to hospital at the beginning of the year under a mental health order.

Lynne says: "I looked at her on stage and I realised I finally had her back.

"I saw the Britney I remember and love - not the girl I had seen strapped to a stretcher and wheeled into a psychiatric hospital. And tears of relief filled my eyes."

Lynne also recalled her despair as Britney cut her out of her life for seven months.

Britney blamed her mother for forcing her into Promises rehab clinic and siding with ex husband KEVIN FEDERLINE in their divorce battle.

Lynne says: "I was a wreck, worrying myself sick many miles from my confused, hurting daughter.

"I felt hopeless, as if I was losing my grasp on my child."

The pair are now fully reconciled and were together at the weekend as Britney threw a star-studded joint birthday party for her two sons SEAN PRESTON, 3, and JAYDEN JAMES, 3.
Lynne adds: "She is my fighter, my sweetheart. My girl has been to hell and back.

"It has been one hell of a journey. We have taken our first steps on the road to healing our family."

Guests at the car-themed bash included singer GWEN STEFANI, with her two-year-old son KINGSTON, and JIM CARREY'S girlfriend JENNY McCARTHY with her son EVAN, six.

Britney's dad JAMIE, sister JAMIE LYNN and two-month old niece MADDIE BRIANN also joined in the fun.

Britney treated her sons to custom-designed mini motorised cars complete with personalised licence plates and a cake in the shape of a yellow truck.

A source told People.com: "The boys received tons of birthday gifts. Britney and her family really made the party special for the boys."

Britney lost custody of her two sons to Kevin last year and earlier this year lost visitation rights.

But her access to the boys was gradually restored over the summer with the resolution of the former couple's bitter custody battle.

Source: The Sun

Lynne Opens Up About Memoir In Who Magazine

In an exclusive interview and excerpt from her new memoir with Who Magazine, Lynne opens up for the first time about her anguish over daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn - and what she wishes she'd done differently. The print is a little small; may have to squint your eyes.

Source: Breathe Heavy

Britney Poses Pretty Preparing For December Album Release!

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Britney Spears was back to work yesterday posing at a shoot with Vogue photographer Patrick Demarchelier in Beverly Hills after which she rewarded herself with dinner at Magnolia. If the pictures end up in the magazine, it should line up with the rumored December release of Britney's star-studded new album. That will make it almost a year since the worst of her breakdown — thankfully she has come so far and the biggest headlines about the singer are about her VMA wins and planning a joint birthday bash for her boys who were born two days apart in September. Even the press about Lynne Spears's controversial revealing new book has become more positive.

Source: Pop Sugar

Lynne Spears: 'Every Mother Makes Mistakes'

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Lynne Spears says that even knowing what she knows now, she would still let her daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn pursue stardom.

"I think you have to let them follow their dreams," she says in a new interview with PEOPLE. "I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't."

But she does express regrets about not listening to her "gut" at times: "Was I the perfect mom? No."

In an exclusive excerpt from her new memoir, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, Lynne, 53, details the highs – and lows – of her family's journey from Kentwood, La., to the harsh international spotlight. "Every mother makes mistakes," she writes, "and I'm no different."

"I wanted the truth out in my own words for myself and my family," she tells PEOPLE of writing the book, which chronicles Britney's highly publicized troubles and Jamie Lynn's pregnancy at 16. The latter, says Lynne, "was probably the hardest time in my life."

What do her kids – Britney, 26, Jamie Lynn, 17, and Bryan, 31 – think of the book?

She says Britney and Bryan have yet to read it, but "Jamie Lynn loved the book. I started to cry because I told her, 'I wanted so much for you to like it.' And she got up and kissed me on the cheek and said, 'Mama, thank you so much.'"

Lynne's once-troubled relationship with Britney "has undergone tremendous healing," she says. "We are back to four or five phone calls a day."

These days Lynne is also a doting "Me Maw" to her grandsons Preston, 3, and Jayden, 2, and granddaughter Maddie Briann, 2 months. Of Britney's boys, she says, "They are the cutest! The biggest personalities you've ever seen. Preston is the older brother and he's protective, but Jayden is tough as nails."

For more on this story, including Lynne's memories of Britney's early career and her hopes for Jamie Lynn's wedding, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

Source: People

Lynne Spears to Britney: You're Still My "Brave Little Girl"

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In her new memoir Through the Storm, Lynne Spears claims her daughter has overcome her troubles of the past few years and is regaining her "glorious voice."

She adds that they're close again and that Britney remains a "brave little girl who sang to the skies" so long ago, according to The Associated Press, which obtained an early copy of the 211-page book (out Sept. 16 by Christian publisher Thomas Nelson).

Among the highlights:

--She says she first felt she was losing control of Britney after the debut of " ... Baby One More Time," when she posed in panties and a bra for a 1999 Rolling Stone story.

--She says she felt "shock and dismay" at seeing her daughter shave her head, at her brief marriages to Jason Alexander and Kevin Federline and her highly publicized custody battles over her two children.

--She writes that she felt "punched in the stomach" when she learned that Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant at age 16. (Lynne famously sold the story to OK! magazine for $1 million.)

--She praises Federline as a "caring daddy" and says Britney is "an amazing mother," but only when at her best.

--She writes that she was distraught as then-manager Sam Lufti told her he was grinding pills and putting them in Britney's food, hoping to induce a coma that would enable doctors to cure her of all addictions. She calls her daughter's two hospitalizations this year a "turning point"

Source: US Weekly

Lynne Spears to Britney: You're Regaining 'Glorious Voice'

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The mother of Britney Spears says that the singer has overcome the tabloid nightmares of the past few years and believes that little by little, her daughter is regaining her "glorious voice."

Lynne Spears writes of her famous child and her other celebrity daughter, Jamie Lynn, in "Through the Storm," to be published Sept. 16 by Thomas Nelson, a leading Christian publisher. The Associated Press obtained an early copy.

The 211-page book, which includes several pages of family photographs, tracks Britney Spears' life through her precocious early years — she was singing and dancing by the time she was 3 — through her explosive rise to her pill-addicted, near-tragic fall.

Lynne Spears describes young Britney as a confident, outgoing girl whose talents were so obvious that family friends would insist she would one day be on Broadway. Spears rejects the image that she pushed Britney into show business, and writes that the singer was always focused on achievement and would constantly practice to the music of Madonna, Whitney Houston and others.

In "Through the Storm," Lynne Spears presents herself as a loving, selfless (she gave up her job as a school teacher for her daughter's sake) but increasingly powerless parent. After the jolting, but pleasant surprise of Britney Spears' debut smash, " ... Baby One More Time," Lynne Spears says she felt she was losing control when a 1999 Rolling Stone magazine story featured a racy cover of the singer in panties and a bra.


Lynne Spears recalls feeling "shock and dismay" at seeing her daughter shave her head, at her brief marriages to childhood friend Jason Alexander and dancer-rapper Kevin Federline, and her highly publicized custody battles over her two children. She also recalls feeling she had been "punched in the stomach" when she learned that Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant at age 16.

She praises Federline as a "caring daddy" and says Britney Spears is "an amazing mother," but only when at her best. Lynne Spears also writes warmly of her daughter's former boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, but says the willful nature of the young couple helped break them up.

The bottom came in the past two years with Britney Spears' increasingly disturbing public behavior and her drugged private life in her Malibu, California, house. Lynne Spears writes that she was distraught as then-manager Sam Lufti told her he was grinding pills and putting them in Britney's food, hoping to induce a coma that would enable doctors to cure her of all addictions.

Britney Spears was hospitalized twice this year, the second time in February, when paramedics took her to the psychiatric ward of the UCLA Medical Center, where her mother says she finally received the care she needed.

It was, Lynne Spears writes, a "turning point" for the entire family.

On Sunday night, Britney Spears had clearly recovered from last year's fiasco at the MTV Video Music Awards, when she bumbled her way through a performance of "Gimme More." This time, Spears nabbed three VMAs, including video of the year.

"Wow, thank you, I'm in shock right now. I was not expecting this," Spears, looking spectacular in a shimmering silver dress, said as she accepted her third trophy of the evening for "Piece of Me."

Mother and daughter are close again, Lynne Spears writes, and Britney remains a "brave little girl who sang to the skies" so long ago.

Source: FOX News

Publisher Denies That Lynne Spears Dishes on Britney's Virginity in New Book

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Britney Spears' mother Lynne Spears does not "tell all" about when her daughter lost her virginity in her upcoming book, according to the book's publisher.

"It's as far from accurate as you can get," a rep for the publisher Thomas Nelson told FOXNews.com, providing this statement from the company's CEO Mike Hyatt:

"The Lynne Spears book is not yet available for sale, and it won’t be until September 16. So despite certain claims that are being reported by the tabloid press and Internet gossip sites, this is not a 'tell all book' nor a parenting book. The so-called 'facts' that they claim Lynne reveals about Britney and her family are a complete fabrication."

On Thursday, the U.K.'s Sun reported that Lynne Spears writes in the book that Britney was "not that innocent" long before Justin Timberlake.

The paper claims that the book says that Spears lost her virginity to a high school football player when she was 14; began drinking when she was a 13-year-old Mouseketeer; began experimenting with drugs at 15; was caught with cocaine and marijuana on a private jet by 16; and was allowed to sleep with Timberlake at 16.

The book, "Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World," is set for release Sept. 16.

Source: FOX News

Brit in Snit with Mama Over Book

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So as we told you yesterday, all that dish you've heard is in the Lynne Spears book about sex and drugs –- ain't really there.

But Britney is still PO'd about the book because it blames everything on Brit's ex-managers, says the New York Post and makes Lynne look like a saint. The paper says she's only talking to her daddy Jamie, who's got her on an even keel, as everyone could see last night at the VMAs.

Spears' rep says the report is "false."

Source: TMZ

Brit's Mom Didn't Spill Beans

The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:

More on Lynne Spears so-called "tell all" book about Britney. Lynne supposedly says a few days before Brit went completely mental, Sam Lutfi said, "If you try to get rid of me, she'll be dead and I'll piss on her grave."

Here's the deal. That story has already been told and, by the way, it's true. Lutfi even told us what he meant was that no one cared about Britney and she'd be dead without him. And, for the record, we never bought Lufti's story.

As for the London Sun getting an advanced copy of Lynne Spears' book -- something's rotten in Denmark. The Sun has said the book claims Britney lost her virginity at 14 and started taking drugs at 15, etc. etc. We're told none of that appears in the book and it's more about Lynne being a heroic mom. For the record, we're not buying that either.

Source: TMZ