Was Britney Railroaded into Rehab? : A Research Thread

[Steel Magnolia]

9 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

I need to comb through the entire "Pre-CON" thread for dates...But here's a new entry for our Chronological Timeline:

Key Dates:

Dec. 1, 2007 - Bryan Spears remains the President of the Britney Spears Foundation, having signed the 2006 tax return with a female accountant from Tennessee.

Dec. 14, 2007 - Dan Dymtrow's lawyers, including Vivek Gupta, file a complaint against Taylor Swift and her parents in a New York court to recover monies for, "unjust enrichment, breach of contract and implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, promissory estoppel and estoppel in pais, and tortious interference with prospective economic opportunity." Gupta's business address is listed as Apt. 803 in the Silk Building.

I need to tweak the first entry...

Because the address of the Britney Spears Foundation was also Apt. 803 in the Silk Building.

[RebellionSparkles]

18 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

I need to tweak the first entry...

Because the address of the Britney Spears Foundation was also Apt. 803 in the Silk Building.

Where where did you find that #803 was the Britney Spears Foundation? I’ve been looking for receipts for the address of the BS Foundation.

[Steel Magnolia]

7 minutes ago, RebellionSparkles said:

Where where did you find that #803 was the Britney Spears Foundation? I’ve been looking for receipts for the address of the BS Foundation.

I was just about to say...By 2007 it is no longer the Silk Building. It is Richard Feldstein's address.

Where can I find all of the tax filings for the Foundation? Was the link posted in the "Pre-CON" thread?

[RebellionSparkles]

2 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

I was just about to say...By 2007 it is no longer the Silk Building. It is Richard Feldstein's address.

Where can I find all of the tax filings for the Foundation? Was the link posted in the "Pre-CON" thread?

They are in the law library! Search “Britney spears foundation” the address for the tax filing was always the biz managers.  But this isn’t the foundation’s office address. There in all likelihood was an office address for the foundation—I can’t find it though.

[Steel Magnolia]

On 4/4/2022 at 1:01 AM, RebellionSparkles said:

 

This was an amazing find!

Adding to this, here is one of the original docs for the purchase of apartment 803. Date was Dec 1, 2000 (or Dec 22, 2000). Bert Padell had a power of attorney and was acting on behalf of One More Time Music, Inc.  So is it fair to assume the Britney in some form owned this apartment until 2011?

 

 

 

On 4/4/2022 at 8:17 AM, Ghoulia said:

Yeah, and it seems like it was used as a private office for the Britney Spears Foundation until its demise.  Then it was used for Dan Dymtrow's attorney in 2007??

 

1 hour ago, RebellionSparkles said:

They are in the law library! Search “Britney spears foundation” the address for the tax filing was always the biz managers.  But this isn’t the foundation’s office address. There in all likelihood was an office address for the foundation—I can’t find it though.

 

@Ghoulia  Do you know where we can find a source for the office address of the Foundation?

[Steel Magnolia]

A seven minute drive from the Silk Building:

New York, NY 10016
United States

https://philanthropynewyork.org/redhen/org/720

The Britney Spears Foundation
432 Park Avenue South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20040202023050/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

Also the address of:

Rudolph & Beer LLP. 432 Park Avenue South,. 2nd Floor. New York, NY 10016

Source: https://www.stefansautographs.com/Spears.htm

 

Edited April 18, 2022 by Steel Magnolia
Adding new details + links to sources.

[Steel Magnolia]

A five minute drive from the Silk Building:

The Britney Spears Foundation
24-32 Union Square East
4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
USA
www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

Source: https://www.celebrities-galore.com/celebrities/britney-spears/contact/

Also the address of:

Unknown

Edited April 18, 2022 by Steel Magnolia
Adding new details + links to sources.

[Steel Magnolia]

A 12-minute drive from the Silk Building:

689 5th Avenue 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022

Source: https://opengovny.com/corporation/2686614

Also the address of:

Vivian Lewit

Source: https://www.searchpeoplefree.com/find/vivian-s-lewit/26iGq7lp6sq9

Edited April 18, 2022 by Steel Magnolia
Adding new details + links to sources.

[Steel Magnolia]

Oh?

"Tickets for Britney Spears -- Onyx Hotel Tour 2004 -- are on sale in select markets. Check local listings for on sales, dates and times. As in the first leg of Britney's tour, a portion of all ticket sales will be donated to The Britney Spears Foundation."

https://www.sony.com/content/sony/en/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-music-entertainment/2004/britney-spears-second-leg-of-her-us-tour-kicks-off-june-22.html

[RebellionSparkles]

4 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

Oh?

"Tickets for Britney Spears -- Onyx Hotel Tour 2004 -- are on sale in select markets. Check local listings for on sales, dates and times. As in the first leg of Britney's tour, a portion of all ticket sales will be donated to The Britney Spears Foundation."

https://www.sony.com/content/sony/en/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-music-entertainment/2004/britney-spears-second-leg-of-her-us-tour-kicks-off-june-22.html

Yes! There is accounting shenanigans with this donation! It was $300k-$400k.

This shenanigan was curtesy of Bert Padell….elegant, masterful. The shenanigan was reversed in 2003 or 2004 after an audit by Straus & Herzog.

 

[Steel Magnolia]

$2-million towards 9/11 by November 2002.

https://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/9_11updt_hi_res.pdf

[RebellionSparkles]

5 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

$2-million towards 9/11 by November 2002.

https://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/9_11updt_hi_res.pdf

Great find! Now we have an additional source to compare the Foundations reported numbers to.

[RebellionSparkles]

8 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

$2-million towards 9/11 by November 2002.

https://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/9_11updt_hi_res.pdf

The 2002 and 2003 tax docs for the BS Foundation give good detail about the various Sept 11 donations.

[Steel Magnolia]

1 hour ago, Steel Magnolia said:

A seven minute drive from the Silk Building:

New York, NY 10016
United States

https://philanthropynewyork.org/redhen/org/720

The Britney Spears Foundation
432 Park Avenue South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20040202023050/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

Also the address of:

Rudolph & Beer LLP. 432 Park Avenue South,. 2nd Floor. New York, NY 10016

Source: https://www.stefansautographs.com/Spears.htm

 

February 3, 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050203025146/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

So Rudolph & DeBeer still received mail addressed to the Foundation after Larry was fired as manager?

[Tar_isa]

5 hours ago, Steel Magnolia said:

A seven minute drive from the Silk Building:

New York, NY 10016
United States

https://philanthropynewyork.org/redhen/org/720

The Britney Spears Foundation
432 Park Avenue South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20040202023050/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

Also the address of:

Rudolph & Beer LLP. 432 Park Avenue South,. 2nd Floor. New York, NY 10016

Source: https://www.stefansautographs.com/Spears.htm

 

Wait wait so the Britney Spears Foundation's address was also Larry Rudolph's office address? Is that a common thing?

[Tar_isa]

20 hours ago, Steel Magnolia said:

Making connections...

...

Dec. 2, 2006 - Britney turns 25, which is the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UMTA) age of majority in the state of Florida if the transferer/parent chooses. Otherwise, the age of majority in Florida is 21-years old.

Dec. 14, 2006 - Richard Feldstein, a trustee of the Love Shack Trust, assists in the purchase of a house located at 12094 Summit Circle in Beverly Hills.

Dec. 26, 2006 - Britney's business manager, Pat Marchese of RHF Management Group, LLC, makes a final payment of $58,301.00 on "2004 commissions" to Wright Entertainment Group (WEG). The cheque is issued by the SJB Revocable Trust c/o RHF Management Services, LLC, located at 10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 1300, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

...

Was Richard Feldstein's RHF Management Services, LLC fired by Britney following her 25th birthday?

Is this why the payments to WEG stopped?

Is this why it was necessary to intervene legally by railroading her into rehab via the "carrot on a stick" of physical custody of her children?

Who was hired to replace Feldstein?

And was Howard Grossman hired by Lutfi in August 2007 in an attempt to reign the situation in?

EDIT:

More connections...

Sean Phillip has told us that Britney did not have access to her funds or her house during this time period. She did not know the gate codes (to either the Malibu property or the Summit property, I'm not sure which), and by the time she was between rehab stays in February 2007 she had lost the black Amex card "belonging to her management" and was down to half an account number scrawled on a piece of paper. By that point, she couldn't even book a hotel room.

How does this play into the above scenario?

EDIT #2...

Dec. 31, 2006 - By the end of this year, the Britney Spears Foundation is in a deficit of close to $200,000.

So...

We know that the mailing address of the Britney Spears Foundation was Apt. 803.

Bryan Spears' personal mailing address also appears as if it could have been Apt. 803.

The Foundation fell under the umbrella of the SJB Revocable Trust.

...

What was the relationship between Bryan Spears and RHF Management Services?

Did Bryan have the ability to issue directions to RHF as "top cop" of Britney's finances?

EDIT #3...

Cross-posting this research thread about Apt. 803 for any journalists who might be following:
 

 

EDIT #4:

I've added a question above.

...

Was Richard Feldstein's RHF Management Services, LLC fired by Britney following her 25th birthday?

Is this why the payments to WEG stopped?

Is this why it was necessary to intervene legally by railroading her into rehab via the "carrot on a stick" of physical custody of her children?

I keep coming back to the fact that by december 2006 when she was already 25 she didn't have real access to her own money to the point she didn't carry her own credit card. How can that be? Did Larry/her team/family manage her life that much, that even after being married and having kids she couldn't regain control? Is this part of the reason she wanted to distance herself from her family and Larry? Even more, is this part of the reason she tried to escape that kind of control by marrying, thinking this would be her get out of jail card (not to say she didn't love kevin, I do think she did), and is this tug of war for control of Britney's life why her team told her she had to file for divorce in late 2006?

Feels like December 2006 was the moment when everything came to a point of no return, like different things were brewing behind the scenes for a while, financially and personally but right then and there some ingredient was added and that's when the recipe for disaster started definitely happening.

[Steel Magnolia]

2 hours ago, Tar_isa said:

Wait wait so the Britney Spears Foundation's address was also Larry Rudolph's office address? Is that a common thing?

I've found three different addresses for the Foundation...so far.

1. Vivian Lewit (who was originally with Rudolph & DeBeer and who was on the intervention calls in Feb. 2007) registered it.
2. Larry's law firm was receiving the mail until March 20, 2005.
3. I don't know who occupies the third address...yet.

I'm dealing with a black mold problem so will be on the road again this week moving the contents of my apartment, but I'll be shacked up in a hotel room tonight and will try to tackle this. I think we can track who was receiving the mail between 2004 and 2022 thanks to the Wayback Machine.

EDIT:

The earliest date for the Wayback Machine is February 2, 2004 and Larry's law firm was receiving donations at that time:

Here's How You Can Help

The Britney Spears Foundation welcomes contributions of any size. Your money will be used to help finance a number of programs with a common purpose: to help children in need.

Donation checks should be payable to:

The Britney Spears Foundation
432 Park Avenue South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20040202023050/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

On March 28, 2005 the address had changed to:

Here's How You Can Help

The Britney Spears Foundation welcomes contributions of any size. Your money will be used to help finance a number of programs with a common purpose: to help children in need.

Donation checks should be payable to:

The Britney Spears Foundation
24-32 Union Square East, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20050328020438/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

[Note: I haven't been able to verify whose address this is yet.]

EDIT #2:

So...

Some time between March 20 and March 28, 2005, the mailing address of the Foundation changed from Larry's law firm to someone else.

Here's the last date that it shows up for Rudulph & DeBeer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050320012951/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

EDIT #3:

The Foundation's mailing address remained the same until April 5, 2007. After this date the website is pulled offline and the page is no longer available:

Here's How You Can Help

The Britney Spears Foundation welcomes contributions of any size. Your money will be used to help finance a number of programs with a common purpose: to help children in need.

Donation checks should be payable to:

The Britney Spears Foundation
24-32 Union Square East, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20070405212813/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

There are no captures on the Wayback Machine for the next six months, and then on October 3, 2007 we get this:

Not Found

The requested URL /foundation-bsf.php was not found on this server.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20071023144859/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

Edited April 18, 2022 by Steel Magnolia
Adding new details.

[Steel Magnolia]

41 minutes ago, Steel Magnolia said:

EDIT #3:

The Foundation's mailing address remained the same until April 5, 2007. After this date the website is pulled offline and the page is no longer available:

Here's How You Can Help

The Britney Spears Foundation welcomes contributions of any size. Your money will be used to help finance a number of programs with a common purpose: to help children in need.

Donation checks should be payable to:

The Britney Spears Foundation
24-32 Union Square East, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20070405212813/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

Key Dates:

Apr. 5, 2007 - Gossip blogs report that Britney is dating singer Howie Day after meeting him at Promises.

Apr. 6, 2007 - Britney is reported to "hate" Larry Rudolph, but is said to be locked into a new five-year contract with him.

Apr. 13, 2007 - Britney sues manager Larry Rudolph through the Labor Commissioner of the State of California. (Case No. TAC 3744)

Apr. 13, 2007 - In a taped rant, Britney says, "My management totally knew what they were doing when they sent me to rehab - they were so right."

Apr. 19, 2007 - In a statement to Page Six, James Spears sticks up for Britney's manager Larry Rudolph - who was fired by Britney last Friday.

[Ghoulia]

7 hours ago, Steel Magnolia said:

February 3, 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050203025146/www.britneyspears.com/foundation-bsf.php

So Rudolph & DeBeer still received mail addressed to the Foundation after Larry was fired as manager?

Yes, and after the Rudolph & Beer firm dissolved in 2003 https://www.indiewire.com/2003/07/rudolph-beer-to-head-film-practice-at-greenberg-traurig-79582/

Though I suppose Larry could have kept the same office space there (432 Park Ave South) after his partner left.  

[Ghoulia]

11 hours ago, Steel Magnolia said:

 

 

 

@Ghoulia  Do you know where we can find a source for the office address of the Foundation?

I looked through all of the Wayback machine's pages for the Britney Spears Foundation - saw the 432 Park Ave S & 24-32 Union Square addresses, no 803.  Why did I think the Foundation used the Silk Building address? Maybe because of the notation on the 2003 990 form https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLA3gt5L0LGjFTNoBpdpyIesZERMJC8_/view?usp=sharing

"The Foundation was charged an amount for rent of its office space; however, a payment was made directly from Britney Spears to ReignDeer Entertainment to cover rent expenses as a donation to the Foundation. The office space was never occupied rent-free."  -> maybe this was 432 Park Ave S, the old Rudolph & Beer office.