The stuff of a good murder story

I can just imagine reading something like this on Crimelibrary.com. It's really not too farfetched. There are already stories on there that start off like this: A young, naive Southern girl moves to Hollywood to make it big, and does so, only to have her life turned upside down by a drug addiction, ending in a tragic murder-suicide bid.

I actually really feel for her, having to go through all this, and with the paparazzi doing what they do. Even if the allegations aren't true, it still means that her life is all screwed up. Everybody wants a piece of the Brit.

From Reuters: Britney Spears said drugged and controlled by manager:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britney Spears has been "drugged" by her self-styled manager in a bid to take control of her home, life and finances, the troubled pop star's mother charged in court documents made public on Tuesday.

Lynne Spears, in a sworn declaration submitted to the court to obtain a temporary restraining order against Sam Lutfi, paints a disturbing picture of her 26-year-old daughter as confused, numbed by drugs and virtually held captive by her sometime-manager.

"Mr. Lutfi drugged Britney. He has cut Britney's home phone line and removed her cell-phone chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything -- Britney's business manager, her attorneys and security guards at the gate," Lynne Spears wrote in the declaration.

She describes arriving at her daughter's Los Angeles home on January 28, days before she was forcibly hospitalized, finding Lutfi was in charge and the entertainer confused.

"Britney ... became very agitated and could not stop moving," Lynne Spears wrote in the court papers.

"She cleaned the house. She changed her clothes many times. She also changed her dogs' clothes many times. Britney spoke to me in a tone and with the level of understanding of a very young girl," she said.

Lynne Spears said Lutfi told her and a friend that he gave Britney Spears pills ground up in her food to keep her quiet and at one point he told her she had to take "10 pills a day" if she wanted to see her two young children.