Sam Asghari calls out Netflix on documentary about fiancee Britney Spears’ conservatorship

Britney Spears’ fiancee has called out Netflix over the documentary about the pop star’s conservatorship as he believes the profits should go to her legal defense.

The major streaming service took to their Instagram on Wednesday to post the explosive first trailer for Britney Vs. Spears and the 27-year-old Iranian-American model could be seen in the comments defending his famous partner. 

Asghari wrote: ‘I hope the profit from these docs go toward fighting agains[t] injustice #freebritney.’ 

He then backed up an outspoken Britney fan’s comment with a 100percent emoji who wrote: ‘How much money is being made by third parties from this documentary leveraging Britney’s personal story and its value in the media?

‘There needs to be transparency about how or whether the filmmakers are profiting from this doc, or if they are donating their fees to Britney’s legal defense, or to legal defense funds to aid those who do not have the financial resources to fight against conservatorships. Even if it is in support of freeing Britney, this appears that it could be exploitative.’ 

The last few weeks have had several ups and downs as Sam and 39-year-old Spears announced their engagement on September 13.

However on Wednesday it was reported that the pop star’s legal team is moving forward in drawing up a prenuptial agreement. 

The legal maneuvering comes just as her lawyers filed the paperwork to have her father, Jamie Spears, removed as her court-appointed conservator 

Britney’s lawyer, Matthew Rosengart, petitioned a Los Angeles court on Wednesday to replace Jamie with a ‘temporary, short term’ conservator when both sides meet again in court on September 29, while also citing that Jamie has, himself, taken recent steps to end the arrangement.     

‘To all the reasons why immediate suspension always has been required, we now can add another essential one: as has been publicly reported, Ms. Spears recently became engaged,’ Britney‘s lawyer wrote in his filing that was obtained by E! News. 

‘With Ms. Spears’s consent and pursuant to her instructions, Ms. Spears and the undersigned counsel are in the process of engaging a family law attorney to craft a prenuptial agreement.’

The filing continued, ‘The prenuptial agreement process will require communications with and cooperation from the Conservator of her Estate but, as referenced above and well-established in the record, given that Ms. Spears’s relationship with that Conservator (her father) is broken, Mr. Spears’s continued involvement would impede the ability to negotiate and consummate a contract that all can agree is in Ms. Spears’s best interests.’  

Rosengart went on to write that he believes the conservatorship should be ‘completely and inevitably terminated this fall.’

Meanwhile, the newly released trailer which Asghari commented on featured Spears pleading  for freedom from the decade-plus conservatorship she’s been under.

 ‘I just want my life back,’ she told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny earlier this year during a phoned-in testimony. ‘I’ve worked my whole life. I don’t owe these people anything.’    

Britney has been under a court order for 13 years where her dad has held the power over all of her personal and financial decisions following her multiple involuntary holds in psychiatric hospitals. 

‘Britney told her lawyer that her father threatened to take away her kids,’ according to The Sun, with the new doc set for release on Tuesday, Sept. 28, the day before her next big court date where she will battle against her father, Jamie, to end the conservatorship.

The last time Spears spoke directly to the judge was in May 2019, but the court was closed to the public and her testimony was sealed, and details of her mental health have never been disclosed.

Directed by filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, the project has reportedly been in the works for more than one year. 

‘I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does,’ her recording echoed in the background of clips through the years. ‘It’s been 13 years and it’s enough.’ 

‘Britney never had one person she could trust,’ Adnan Ghalib said in an interview. ‘Not Mom, not Dad.’ 

One expert weighed in: ‘Britney had a fear that her family would barge in and take everything.’ 

She began dating Adnan, a photographer, during the height of her mental health issues in 2007, a relationship that only lasted one year until she filed a restraining order against him. 

Carr and journalist Jenny Eliscu read through legal documents to piece together Britney’s story and her fight to regain control of her life.

‘Someone very close to the conservatorship leaked me this confidential report,’ a woman echoed while scouring through a digital file. 

‘What was going on inside the conservatorship and why was she still in one if she was “okay,”‘ another voice asked.  

‘The world knows Britney Spears: performer, artist, icon. But in the last few years, her name has been publicly tied to another, more mysterious term: conservatorship,’ the Netflix synopsis said.

‘Britney vs Spears tells the explosive story of Britney’s life and her public and private search for freedom. Featuring years-long investigative work, exclusive interviews and new documents, this Netflix feature film paints a thorough portrait of the pop star’s trajectory from girl next door to a woman trapped by fame and family and her own legal status. It shows Britney’s life without utilizing the traumatic images that have previously defined her.’ 

Since her shocking testimony, Britney’s court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham, resigned after failing to file paperwork to end the conservatorship. 

And just the day before, Britney’s longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, resigned saying he was no longer needed. 

Her new attorney, Mathew S. Rosengart, filed documents Wednesday to end the conservatorship without a psychiatric evaluation and put a plan in place to ‘completely and inevitably’ end the legal arrangement this fall.