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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Britney Spears taken from her home in ambulance after 3-hour standoff
By PETER PRENGAMAN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
January 04, 2008 2:22 PM EST
LOS ANGELES - A bizarre new chapter is unfolding in the life of Britney Spears, with the troubled pop star hospitalized Friday "for her own welfare" after a three-hour standoff involving her two young sons.
With paparazzi swarming the ambulance doors, Spears was whisked away late Thursday, nearly three hours after police arrived at her home in a gated community. No injuries were reported.
Police initially said it appeared the 26-year-old Spears was under the influence of an unknown substance but Officer April Harding said Friday she could not confirm that or other reports that Spears was hospitalized for mental evaluation.
"For her own welfare, she was transferred to a local hospital for medical treatment," Harding said, declining to elaborate.
Spears was conscious as the ambulance left her home escorted by a row of police cars. A horde of paparazzi chased the ambulance, their strobes going off as they held their cameras up to the vehicle's rear window.
Another group of videographers met the ambulance at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, banging on the ambulance doors.
Cedars spokeswoman Simi Singer said she could neither confirm nor deny that Spears was at the hospital, citing patient confidentiality laws.
Officers were called to Spears' house around 8 p.m. Thursday for an issue involving custody of 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James, Harding said.
By about 10:30 p.m., six police cars, two ambulances and a fire truck had entered the gated-community, where Spears has a $4.5 million (?3.06 million), five-bedroom, six-bathroom home in the Santa Monica Mountains above Beverly Hills.
Several police cars were seen in the area earlier in the night.
Spears turned over the children around 10:50 p.m., Officer Jason Lee said.
Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline have been involved in a long and very public custody battle. Federline, 29, has temporary custody of the children because Spears, who has limited visitation rights, has defied court orders. The two were married in October 2004 and divorced in July.
Attorneys for Spears and Federline were in court Friday to discuss child custody arrangements.
Tara Scott, representing Spears, and Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, spent about 30 minutes in chambers with Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon, who has been handling the custody case. They made no comments to reporters.
Kaplan said later through his publicist that it would be "inappropriate for him to speak to the media ... because of what's happened last night, because of the serious nature of what we've all read about."
Publicist Michael Sands said Kaplan was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after Spears was admitted Thursday, but he declined to provide any details.
"Just say prayers," Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, told the celebrity news show "Access Hollywood" by phone on Friday.
Spears' life has spiraled downward during the past year. She has been photographed without underwear and appeared to be drunk and out-of-control in public. She shaved her head, beat a car with an umbrella and spent a month in rehab, and has had a handful of fender benders, including one in which she ran over a photographer's foot.
Earlier Thursday, Spears appeared for a deposition in her custody dispute. Spears was questioned for just 14 minutes, Kaplan told reporters after Spears left.
Spears called in sick for a Dec. 12 court-ordered deposition, but was photographed that day driving with a friend. She also didn't show up for a session Wednesday, Kaplan said.
Spears' attorneys from the firm Trope and Trope on Wednesday filed a court motion asking to be relieved due to a "breakdown" in communication with their client.
Kaplan said Spears' attorneys were present for what became a very abbreviated session, which had been scheduled to last two hours.
"You can imagine in 14 minutes there's not a lot of time to develop questions," he said.
Kaplan said another deposition would be scheduled.
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Associated Press writer Denise Petski and Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | They don't make a Prozac big enough.... |
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Location: UK | She is a " nut job "and clearly deserves no sympathy whatsoever because she has brought it all on her self and like anyone else who is a nut job clearly the mistress of her own down fall and obviously a total waste of space for hitting the bottle drugs etc etc when not able to see her children or only see them under supervision and thankfully no one on this boards life has ever spiraled out of control and for complex reasons not been able to see their kids and again we all know men get such an excellent deal in the courts over custody arrangements so never resort to drugs alcohol or violence under preasure.
Give her a break , i personally couldnt give a toss about her but i dont like hypocracy and i dont think any one in their right mind would "choose" to humiliate themselves in this way and therefore i dont find it amusing . |
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Location: UK | She is a " nut job "and clearly deserves no sympathy whatsoever because she has brought it all on her self and like anyone else who is a nut job clearly the mistress of her own down fall and obviously a total waste of space for hitting the bottle drugs etc etc when not able to see her children or only see them under supervision and thankfully no one on this boards life has ever spiraled out of control and for complex reasons not been able to see their kids and again we all know men get such an excellent deal in the courts over custody arrangements so never resort to drugs alcohol or violence under preasure.
Give her a break , i personally couldnt give a toss about her but i dont like hypocracy and i dont think any one in their right mind would "choose" to humiliate themselves in this way and therefore i dont find it amusing . |
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Location: SoCal | Why are you guys even talking about this? Is it that boring a day? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Last evening, a newscast reported that she made a deposit on a home in the Cherry Creek area in Denver. That puts her within two miles of me. Not sure if its accurate. Just what we need. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Give her a break . ."
She had more than her share. |
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Location: UK | dont know what breaks shes had and its not the point |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | My word for the day is:
Schadenfreude
Generally speaking, when it comes to celebutards, their misfortune makes me feel good. I guess in the inside I'm saying, thank god it's not me ...
I suppose after she's hit rock bottom, I'll have sympathy for her, but the light at the end of that tunnel is a long way off ... it's a bit like going thru the lincoln tunnel in that movie by steven king, the stand. I believe that guy was carrying a taylor? |
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Location: UK | Schadenfreude ...yup , get that , loved it when that Helmsey woman went down |
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Location: UK | And when Monica went down on Clinton gave me alot of schadenfreude |
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Location: Cicero, NY | At least Amy Fisher has changed her ways.
Well, ok, maybe it's not exactly in the right direction but you gotta admire the effort to try a new direction nevertheless... |
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Location: UK | Is it about our idea of "justice" being done or pleasure at someone elses downfall ? |
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Location: NJ | ". . At least Amy Fisher has changed her ways.
Well, ok, maybe it's not exactly in the right direction but you gotta admire the effort to try a new direction nevertheless . ."
So . . .
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Location: Cicero, NY | Don't get me wrong, Andrea. I get no pleasure whatsoever at what these celebutards are doing whether it be Brit, Lindsay, Paris, Tara, or any of the guys - Mel, Nick, or even our beloved (to some) Glen. What amazes me more than anything is that we, as a society, can't get enough of it. Amazing. I won't let my daughter buy Teen magazine for those very same reasons. I know she's reading it at her friends' house but she knows I don't want to hear about it. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | That said, she's not too bad, Cliff.... |
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Location: UK | That Amy woman , i have never heard of her myself but judging from that piece ....seems shes fairly good at making money out of men |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Stupid men.
The problem is there's no shortage of stupidity these days. Nor lengths some women will travel to find them.
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Speaking of "Schadenfreude", what ever happened to John & Loreena Bobbit? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Loreena's a hairdresser now.
Apparently she cuts a little short. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Anyone think Britney's hot or is it cold outside.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by rededdie:
Speaking of "Schadenfreude", what ever happened to John & Loreena Bobbit? Not sure, but shortly after these two made headlines, out came the John Bobbit doll. "Some assembly required."
It was almost as popular as the divorced Barbie doll, which came with all of Ken's things. |
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Today's Amusement... Oh, that Britney!