Britney Spears Secures $15 Million Deal For Memoir After Winning Conservatorship Battle: Report
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- Britney Spears landed a $15 million deal to write a memoir, a report says
- A bidding war took place before the singer signed with Simon & Schuster, according to reports
- Spears was reportedly eager to tell her story after the release of Jamie Lynn’s book
Britney Spears is ready to detail her life in a tell-all book after reportedly securing a multimillion-dollar deal with a publisher.
The pop superstar landed a massive publishing deal amounting to $15 million with Simon & Schuster for an upcoming memoir, sources close to Spears confirmed to Variety Monday.
According to the unnamed sources, Spears’ book will give accounts of and commentary on the different phases of her personal and professional life.
The memoir will detail her rise to fame in the late ‘90s, her successful but oftentimes controversial music career and her personal relationship with her family.
It seemed everyone wanted a piece of the singer’s story since an insider told Page Six that a bidding war actually took place before Simon & Schuster secured the deal with Spears.
“The deal is one of the biggest of all time, behind the Obamas,” the unnamed insider said after noting that multiple publishers expressed interest in working with the singer on her book.
Page Six claimed that Spears has been eager to tell her side of the story ever since her younger sister Jamie Lynn released her book, “Things I Should Have Said,” in January.
When Jamie Lynn’s book became a best-seller, the “Toxic” hitmaker called out her sister on social media for the alleged lies she wrote in her tome.
“Congrats best seller…The nerve of you to sell a book now and talk s—t, but [you are] f—king lying…I wish you would take a lie detector test so all these masses of people see you’re lying through your teeth about me!!!! I wish the almighty, Lord would come down and show this whole world that you’re lying and making money off of me!!!! You are scum, Jamie Lynn,” Spears wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post.
Meanwhile, Spears’ reported book deal with the publishing company comes nearly four months after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge officially put an end to her conservatorship that was in place for the past 14 years.
The “Gimme More” singer had been living under a conservatorship placed by her dad, Jamie Spears, since 2007. The controversial legal setup spawned the “#FreeBritney” movement by Britney’s fans from all over the world. The campaign went on for years until the conservatorship was terminated in November 2021.
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