Even listening to her bedroom .. Documentary: Britney Spears' father monitored her calls and messages
Britney is in a court battle to end her father's guardianship
A New York Times documentary revealed that Britney Spears' father had tasked a security company with wiretapping her phone calls and text messages during her court-imposed guardianship period since 2008.
In the movie, "Controlling Britney Spears," Alex Vlasov, a former Black Box security employee who worked with the singer's team for nearly nine years, says the company "copied" the singer's phone onto an iPad by logging into her iCloud account.
He added that he also placed a bug in her bedroom.
He told the filmmakers that he was asked to decode some of Britney's text conversations to send to her father, Jimmy Spears, and an employee of a business management firm the father had hired.
He stated that when he inquired about the eavesdropping, they told him that Britney's communications were being monitored "in the interest of her security and protection", and that the court supervising the guardianship was "aware of the matter", as was the singer's lawyer at this time.
Vlasov noted that the surveillance included discussions between Britney and her lawyer.
Britney Spears is locked in a legal battle to end the guardianship that has allowed her father to oversee her personal affairs and her fortune, which amounts to about 60 million dollars, since 2008 after the collapse of her mental state.
The singer said last June that this guardianship is insulting and humiliating.
In a surprising decision, Jimmy Spears said in early September that he supported ending the guardianship because circumstances had changed.
The Los Angeles Superior Court is scheduled to hold a hearing in the case next Wednesday.
Britney's new attorney, Matthew Rosengart, said in a statement that he would investigate the new allegations.
The new documentary was shown on Friday night on FX and Hulu's broadcasting service.
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