The legal fight is now scheduled to play out before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harold Cherness on Aug. 12.
In December 2006, Marie sued Burton, saying he promised her that they would “combine their efforts and earnings and would share equally any and all” accumulated property. The lawsuit also claimed that Burton said he would financially support her for the rest of her life.
According to court papers filed by Burton’s lawyer, the director gave Marie US$5 million to sign a contract releasing him from any further claims to his assets. He maintained that if she wanted to rescind the contract, she was obligated to return the money.
A Superior Court commissioner gave Britney Spears’ father the power to fire the singer’s business manager, according to documents.
Commissioner Reva Goetz also ordered Howard Grossman to turn over “all documents, records and assets relating to Britney Spears” to James Spears, who is the court appointed conservator of his daughter and her estate.
Goetz issued her decision Friday after an emergency closed-door hearing requested a day earlier by James Spears. Grossman showed up at the hearing, but he and others were ordered to leave the courtroom.
Meanwhile, attorneys who have represented Spears in her child custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline filed papers to withdraw from that case.
A swimsuit left at a Swedish pool by Australian movie star Nicole Kidman was sold on Saturday at auction to buy cows for poor families in India.
“The swimsuit went to the highest bidder for 16,200 kronor (US$2,500). That’s enough to buy nine cows,” the suit’s previous owner Zlatko Nedanovski, 32, said.
Kidman, a keen swimmer, forgot the suit at a pool she had reserved for her personal use in the southwestern town of Vaenersborg during a 2002 stay in Sweden to shoot Lars von Trier’s Dogville.
Bids for the swimsuit had come from all over the world, Nedanovski said, but it finally went to 49-year-old Bengt Olsen from Trollheattan, Sweden, just south of Vaenersborg.
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