Britney Spears boasts a HUGE legal bill for the past 14 months of her life. While Britney has dusted herself off, gotten clean, released an album and gone on tour, her camp have paid an easy $2.7 million in legal fees. Thankfully, she’s working again so the well can be replenished, but make no mistake, Brit Brit‘s mistakes have been expensive.

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According to the Los Angeles Times, Britney has a stable of 17 lawyers and firms. Perhaps the most costly of all or her court dealing centered around granting her father Jaime Spears conservatorship of her all her money. The paper breaks down her astronomical legal bills below:

  • $460,000: Cost of divorce and custody proceedings with Kevin Federline
  • $113,000: Cost of a Florida civil suit brought against Spears by her former manager
  • $26,000: Cost of Spears’ headline-grabbing driving without a California license trial
  • $7,000: Cost of a legal dispute over mold in Spears’ leased Malibu property
  • $102,000: Cost of Jamie Spears’ attorneys during the first six months of conservatorship
  • $4,600: Cost to hire a private messenger service to confidentially deliver legal documents
  • $25: Cost to reserve private courthouse for legal proceedings to avoid media coverage (in retrospect, money not so well spent)
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