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Marketing agency sues Britney over perfume cut
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 31 March 2011
A US marketing company called Brand Sense Partners is suing Britney Spears and her father Jamie, who is still looking after her financial affairs of course, over allegations they have cut the agency out of the perfume deal they negotiated between the singer and cosmetics firm Elizabeth Arden seven years ago, depriving them of their 35% commission.
Brand Sense says that it set up the original partnership between Spears and the cosmetics company in 2004, and had been receiving its commission until Spears Senior renegotiated the arrangement with Elizabeth Arden last year, cutting the company out of the picture. The agency says those new negotiations breached its original agreement with the singer.
The lawsuit is looking for damages and a court ruling to the effect Brand Sense is still due its 35% of Britney’s perfume revenues. Team Spears is yet to comment.
Also in Britney legal news, her former bodyguard Fernando Flores, who has made various claims of sexual harassment and child abuse against his former employer, has now said that he has nude photographs sent to him by the singer.
As previously reported, Fernando Flores sued Spears in September for sexual harassment and also made various allegations about the singer mistreating her two sons. Flores had made these same claims previously, prompting the Los Angeles Department Of Children And Family Services to investigate. It ruled that there was “absolutely no truth” in the former bodyguard’s allegations.
This week, a source told Heat that Flores is “determined” to prove what he has claimed is true in court, telling the magazine: “The nude pictures are Fernando’s smoking gun. They’re apparently explicit images that will shock everyone who sees them. I don’t think he cares if his court case affects her album sales or career – he says that should be the least of her concerns. Fernando is convinced that Britney is just as troubled now as she was when he was working for her. She needs help and she needs to admit what she did was wrong”.
Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline and another former bodyguard, Mark Chinapen, have both come to her defence, saying they do not believe that Flores’ claims are true.
