LOS ANGELES - SINGER Britney Spears has obtained a restraining order against former pal Osama 'Sam' Lutfi and one-time boyfriend Adnan Ghalib, court records show.
Attorneys for Spears and her father, who is her legal conservator, received the order last Friday. The documents state that Lutfi, Ghalib and attorney Jon Eardley have been trying to gain control of her affairs 'with an utter disregard for Ms Spears' health and well-being'.
Lutfi was a manager and friend of Spears, but Spears' mother once accused him of grinding pills into the singer's food to control her. Ghalib, a paparazzo, had dated Spears. Eardley once claimed to be her attorney and tried to get her conservatorship case moved to federal court.
The documents claim that Lutfi tried to contact her in late December by sending text messages to her hairdresser. The documents state Lutfi later started sending messages to Spears and one of her attorneys, trying to arrange a meeting.
The order, first reported last Friday by celebrity website TMZ, alleges that Lutfi has also sent 'anonymous, harassing and threatening' messages to her father.
Last week, the documents state, an attorney sent a proposal to remove Spears' court-appointed attorney. He later told her attorneys that he had been contacted by Eardley and Lutfi, according to the filings.
Spears and her father agreed not to renew a temporary restraining order that was issued against Lutfi last year when it expired in July. At the time, her court-appointed attorney issued a statement renouncing their friendship.
Spears was placed under the conservatorship a year ago. The arrangement has been expensive but since her father took control of her life, she has not had the bouts of erratic behaviour, including two hospitalisations, that led to his intervention.
