In 2009, Britney Spears superfan Megan Radford read a blog post about her idol's new legal arrangement, and something didn't feel right.
"It was just a way of trying to convey the situation," said Jordan Miller, the owner of the fansite and the man who coined the expression"Free Britney" in a series of breathless posts to his readers in late 2008."I was 19, 20 years old ... all of this came flying out of me." But the band of internet sleuths and hardcore supporters, once generally dismissed as fringe conspiracists, have nonetheless dedicated much of their lives to their cause of"freeing" her, spreading their concerns online under the ever-present #FreeBritney hashtag and winning over a number of celebrities and public figures. A New York Times documentary highlighted their cause earlier this year, drawing attention to the movement from beyond the avid Spears fanbase.
The elder Spears temporarily stepped aside from overseeing his daughter's medical decisions after he experienced his own health problems in 2019. Jodi Montgomery has since been temporarily filling in, a role that Jamie Spears' team hopes to make permanent in the coming weeks. In November last year, Judge Brenda Penny appointed Bessemer Trust as the co-conservator of the singer's estate.
"I've played out like 50 different scenarios in my head," Radford said, as she looked toward the hearing."I'm nervous, but I'm trying to set those nerves aside ... I hope that she feels, for the first time ever, possibly, the support that she has behind her.
And in the past three years, supporters have organized into a bona fide protest movement. For many of those involved, that quest has meant giving up their spare time to brush up on California law, organize protests and seek out media coverage. Now, still riding high from the New York Times documentary that drew wider attention to Spears' case, the movement has increasingly spilled off computer screens and onto the streets of major cities around the world. In Germany, Willweber will be organizing a"Free Britney" protest in the center of Cologne on Wednesday -- the second he's held for the singer.
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