It’s been less than 24 hours since we learned that Sam Asghari filed for divorce from Britney Spears, and the pop star hasn’t wasted time when it comes to bulking up her legal team. The singer has hired a high-profile lawyer known for handling celebrity divorces as reports of Asghari attempting to get out of the iron-clad prenup the two signed start to circulate.
This development comes after Spears’ highly publicized battle against her conservatorship, in which she fought to regain control over her personal and financial affairs. The recent termination of her conservatorship has empowered her to make decisions regarding her own life, including her choice of legal representation.
So who is this lawyer? According to Page Six, it is Laura Wasser, who is representing Kevin Costner in his ongoing divorce from Christine Baumgartner and just picked up Joe Manganiello as a client as he goes through his divorce from Sofía Vergara.
This isn’t the first time Spears has turned to Wasser during a divorce, either. When the “Toxic” singer was going through her divorce from Kevin Federline, she hired the family law attorney to fight for custody of their two sons back in 2008. Wasser specializes in family law, and while Spears and Asghari do not share any children, it makes sense that Spears would hire an attorney who is handling other messy celebrity divorces. Spears has gone through so much with her conservatorship, and this time around, she is going to be the one making the decisions.
Spears and Asghari first met in October 2016 on the set of her “Slumber Party” music video and started dating around January 2017. Throughout her conservatorship, Asghari seemed tot be a rock for Spears, publicly supporting her throughout all of the chaos. In September 2021, Asghari proposed. Two months later, a judge released Spears from her conservatorship. The couple tied the knot in June 2022.
There’s no other way of putting it: this divorce is going to be messy. We are hoping that Spears feels confident with her legal team and that both she and Asghari can walk away from this in a somewhat amicable manner. Spears’ tell-all memoir The Woman in Me comes out in October, and Asghari should consider himself lucky that this particular tale from her life won’t be chronicled there, like her time with other exes who are nervous about the book.
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