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A woman decked out in camouflage fatigues -- and carrying a backpack and video camera -- was arrested this morning for sneaking into Britney Spears' private Calabasas community and peering into the windows of her home.
The whole thing went down around 10:50 this morning when private security noticed 26-year-old Miranda Tozier-Robbins acting suspicious outside of the home. According to the incident report, security asked her to leave, but the woman "balked at their requests" and had to be physically escorted off the property.
Sheriffs arrived shortly after and took her to a local station where she was booked on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Bail was set at $5,000, but she was released on a citation to appear in court on June 16.
We're told Britney was not home at the time, but she is in town this week -- playing the Staples Center in Los Angeles tonight and tomorrow.
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A woman was arrested Thursday morning for sneaking into Britney Spears' private property in Calabasas and peeping inside the windows of her home, Usmagazine.com confirms.
The woman, identified as 26-year-old Miranda Tozier-Robbins, was wearing camouflage fatigues and carrying a backpack and video camera when private security noticed her trespassing into the community, which Spears moved into in January.
Tozier-Robbins is likely a fan of Spears, as a woman by the same name has left comments on Britney Spears' official site as recently as April 11.
Security personnel asked her to leave, but the woman "balked at their requests" and had to be physically escorted off the property, according to the police report.
Sheriffs arrived shortly after and physically escorted her off the property. They then took her to a local station where she was booked on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Bail was set at $5,000, but she was released on a citation.
Tozier-Robbins -- who resides in the Inglewood, Calif., neighborhood -- will appear in court on June 16.
Spears -- who moved into the $8.9 million Prado De Los Suenos house in The Oaks community in Calabasas -- was not home at the time. The pop star, however, is currently in town for a performance from her Circus tour at L.A.'s Staples Center on Thursday evening.
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Is Britney Spears responsible for Mel Gibson’s marriage problems?
British tabloid the Daily Mirror seems to think so!
“Mel invited Britney to his estate to offer a place of respite,” a source tells the paper, referring to when Gibson asked Spears to join him and his wife in Costa Rica in 2008. “He also took her for dinner in LA. But the innuendo and whispers got to Robyn. She had to get out and this meant divorce.
“Robyn doesn’t believe anything happened but thought it odd a 50-something man struck a friendship with someone so young. She was aware what people might be thinking and wasn’t very happy to say the least.”
Gibson announced last week that he and Robyn — his wife of almost 28 years — had filed for divorce. She’ll likely get 50% of his $900 million fortune.
On the Billboard 200 'Circus' rises 5 spots to #38 in its 19th week on the chart.
On the Billboard Hot 100 'Circus' drops 7 spots to #31 in its 19th week on the chart while Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' remains at #21 in its 9th week on the chart.
Designing the costumes for Spears' tour is right up the Catens' back alley. The brothers have been known for their provocative ideas since their Milan debut in 1995, and said they were intrigued by the tour's concept of a circus. That theme is drawn from Spears' latest album, titled "Circus."
The title track includes such lines as:
All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus When I crack that whip, everybody gonna trip just like a circus Don't stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor just like a circus
"It is a sexualized modern circus," Caten said of the show. "We love contrast. It's taking a new light on a familiar thing."
Perhaps an expected strategy for the controversial singer, now 27, whose latest single, "If You Seek Amy," sounds like an expressionchise that can't be printed in a family newspaper. Setting aside tabloid escapades, that blurring of the line between innocence and decadence has been part of the singer's performing persona since her first video, "... Baby One More Time," was released in 1999. In the infamous video, the then-17-year-old bared her cleavage, midriff and pigtails in a schoolgirl's uniform.
To design costumes for the tour, the Catens collected ideas from Spears, then added their own brainstorms and sketches to the mix. The first costume designed by DSQUARED is inspired by the idea of a seductive lion-tamer.
Caten said he wanted the costume to make Spears appear as the beast and the ringmaster simultaneously, so the brothers designed a red jacket with royal blue cuffs and gold braided details. They added flowing animal hair to the jacket's shoulders and topped everything off with a replica cheetah head adorned with black tulle and ostrich feathers.
When the outfit is completed with fishnets, lace-up boots and a whip, ringmaster Spears will be an antithesis of family-friendly Bello Nock, the head clown of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The sexual allure of the costume is important because it equates to showmanship, according to Caten.
Spears' second costume lies underneath her first and further transforms the singer. After peeling off her ringmaster costume, she reveals herself to be a sexy dominatrix. In a three-piece vixen corset and panty set enriched with Swarovski crystals and draped chiffon, she is thrown into a cage with muzzled, leather-clad sex slaves, a tableau that Caten labeled "erotic."
Those are just the first two costumes. Other characters through the show include the aforementioned "sado-clowns," Parisian balancing acts, "salacious centaurs" and "chiseled and chained Houdini men," according to the Catens.
One thing the designers had to keep in mind is that they were designing a stage show, not a runway show. The outfits Spears and her dancers wear use stretch fabric such as Lycra so that even in the most elaborate costumes, movement isn't hindered.
The overall effect, the designer said, is to take the audience out of the real world and catapult them into an alternate reality that's edgy and sensual. "We want people in the 200th row to get some impact," Caten said.
"I'm truly impressed at the spectacle," said Nicole Sherzinger, leader of the opening act, the Pussycat Dolls, who for once won't provide the most revealing eye candy in the arena.
''Britney is not engaged, she did not get proposed at Subway last week - she is currently on tour - she is not getting married on a farm in Germany, she did not receive a $4.5 million marquise-cut diamond ring. Oh, and she has not been abducted by aliens either."
Take a look at this picture from Britney's Easter brunch in San Jose. Britney planned the brunch for her dancers and they had a lovely time this past Sunday.
The brunch took place on the roof of the Hotel Valencia in San Jose, California. The hotel catered salad, chicken, veggies, fruit and other brunch treats. Britney and her dancers ate, laughed, listened to music from the street below, told stories and had a great time!
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Lady GaGa has spoken of her respect and mutual admiration for fellow pop musician Britney Spears.
The 'Just Dance' singer told Fab that she enjoyed her recent collaboration with Spears and claimed that the Blackout star had never gone away.
Lady GaGa said: "It was awesome seeing the song change when she put her touches on it. I'm just really grateful that she loves the music and she's so supportive of me.
"She's a fan of my stuff and to write a song that she loves and to know she loves me as an artist, you can't ask for anything better than that."
She added: "Britney's a real class act in terms of the way she handles herself in the media and embraces new artists. She's always really kind, I've always admired that about her.
"She's gonna kick everybody's ass. She's awesome, as far as I'm concerned Britney never left."
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Will the show go on?
Britney Spears's father has been seeking permission from a judge to expand the pop star's current Circus tour – but the dour economy may hamper those plans, it was revealed in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday.
The pop star, 27, is halfway into a 49-show tour through the U.S., Canada and the UK, with hopes to add more dates through Europe, Australia and a possible second U.S. tour.
"It hasn't yet been determined whether it's feasible to expand tours to the Europe or Australia legs," L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz said following a closed-door discussion with Jamie and his lawyers.
"That will be determined in the future after everyone's seen the analysis, in terms of the economy and value of the dollar," Goetz added.
Jamie and another lawyer hold indefinite legal control over his daughter following her two forced hospitalizations last year.
"Britney's loving being onstage again," says a source close to the singer. "Health-wise, she's progressing every week, it's amazing. Britney was the single force for wanting to go on tour in the first place."
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So you think you're a Britney Spears fan, eh? But really, how far – or short – would you go to win free tickets to one of her shows on the Circus tour? Well Austin and Michelle of Visalia, Calif. nabbed their freebies to the April 16 L.A. show by shaving their heads in the "Shears for Spears" radio contest on their local station, Q97, and now they're on her official site as well.
The couple only shaved a section of their locks off, which makes us wonder if they'll complete the pre-conservator Brit look later, just to even things out.
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Correction...not only did they murder it but they also raped it, spit on it, set it on fire, killed it, brought it back alive to do all of the following and then put it out of its misery.
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Britney Spears could be forced back into the legal zone.
Jon Eardley, who once tried to break Spears out of her father-controlled conservatorship supposedly at her behest, has asked a judge to require the songbird to take a time-out from her Circus tour and testify in court. Eardley is currently the target of a restraining order filed by the conservatorship.
Per court documents obtained by E! News, Eardley says that with the "Blackout" singer performing at L.A.'s Staples Center this Thursday and Friday, she should be required to show up and testify on the validity of her allegations against him.
"If Britney Spears is well enough to put on two concerts in Los Angeles she is certainly well enough to attend a trial where attorneys on her behalf have falsely accused Jon Eardley of harassment and elder abuse," the petition states.
Specifically, the attorney is demanding Spears address two issues: whether or not she authorized him to take legal action to block the conservatorship, and whether he caused her "substantial emotional distress."
Should the Britser not be able to show up for any reason, Eardley is seeking an order forcing her to submit to an oral deposition "at a location of her choosing" to answer questions pertaining to those two points.
If the Oops! girl's unable to make herself available in any way but is willing to stipulate that she did not suffer substantial emotional distress due to Eardley's conduct, court papers said he'd withdraw his subpoena.
Team Spears has previously claimed that after her onetime manager Sam Lutfi brought Eardley in to act as her counsel, she never knew the legal eagle nor acknowledged him working for her.
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Britney Spears will be appearing in a Los Angeles arena and, if a certain lawyer has it his way, an L.A. County courtroom.
Jon Eardley, Esq., the lawyer who claims Britney hired him to torpedo her conservatorship, has just filed legal papers demanding that Brit appear at a trial in which Eardley has been accused of harassing Britney and her family.
In his legal papers, Eardley notes that Britney will be performing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on April 16 and 17. He says if she's well enough to perform, she's well enough to testify on two points -- did she authorize Eardley to take legal action on her behalf and did Eardley really cause her "substantial emotional distress."
The judge will have to decide if Britney is competent enough to testify and if it's fair to drag her into court. It would certainly be entertaining.
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Britney Spears’ tour bus passed through the north state on Interstate 5 this morning, and even just passing through, the pop star’s presence caused a stir with her fans.
So much so, that a motorist called 911 around 9:40 a.m. to report her entourage was being harassed by three people in a car, said Kurt Heuer, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.
The tour bus reportedly was heading southbound near Bowman Road in the Cottonwood area, when it was approached by three young women or girls who tried to get the 27-year-old singer’s attention.
“Apparently it was just some people who wanted to say hi to Britney, if it was even her,” Heuer said.
The tour bus didn’t stop, so it’s unknown if Spears was even on the bus, Heuer said.
Spears performed on Wednesday in Vancouver, Canada and has a performance scheduled at ARCO Arena in Sacramento on Saturday night, according to her Web site publicizing her current tour called “The Circus.”
Heuer said Spears’ fans weren’t cited, but officers warned them to leave her alone.
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