"We're looking to hold accountable to the full extent of the law and the court of public opinion," he said. He admonished Spears' father Jamie and his lawyer Lou Taylor, who Sandt speculated was the "mastermind" behind Britney's conservatorship. When asked about his purpose for being at the rally, Sandt rattled off "Free Britney" talking points at breakneck speed. In his videos, he takes on a friendly but urgent tone, describing the terms of Spears' conservatorship in gritty details in front of cinematic, crisply edited footage. On his channel JakeyonceTV, where he used to extensively cover "RuPaul's Drag Race," Sandt has 172,000 subscribers. As a YouTube content creator, the appearances bolstered his credibility within the "Free Britney" movement, which Sandt has bolstered with hours of YouTube documentary footage. He had flown into Los Angeles from New Jersey.Īt 1 PM, he estimated that the crowd was three times larger than it had been at any Spears hearing before.Īs a Spears fan, Sandt has stood outside every court hearing concerning her conservatorship since November 2020. Jake Sandt arrived at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse bright and early at 8 AM, several hours before the hearing that would officially end Spears' conservatorship began. Jake Sandt's signature "Free Britney" sunglasses have appeared on the covers of both the New York Times and the Washington Post, he said. The clash between Spears fans and photographers was indicative of their passionate advocacy for the megastar singer.Ĭlose by the verbal spat were some of the star activists and online creators who spearheaded the "Free Britney" movement, propelling it from what skeptics called a fan conspiracy to the major media circus that preceded Spears' release. "Get the fuck out of here," a man wearing a white t-shirt with a picture of a grinning 16-year-old Spears on it yelled at the reporters, one of whom responded, "Nice, blame the press."Īnother "Free Britney" activist compared the throngs of reporters at the courthouse to the paparazzi who mercilessly tailed Spears in the early 2000s at the height of her fraught relationship with the press. A white van had pulled up behind the stage at the "Free Britney" rally, and photographers for Reuters had gotten out. Hundreds of reporters, cameramen, and news vans were encircling a greater number of "Free Britney" supporters as 80-degree heat beat into black pavement.Ī handful of supporters were screaming at the reporters. Twenty minutes before Britney Spears was freed from her 13-year conservatorship on November 12, chaos was unfolding outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. It often indicates a user profile.Ī "Free Britney" supporter yelled at Reuters reporters to "get the fuck out" of his face outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Downtown LA. The next year, at her conservatorship hearing, Britney detailed an abusive relationship with her father and said she would ‘like to sue my family’ but stopped short of naming any of her relatives in particular.Ī few days later Jamie Lynn said she was ‘proud’ of Britney for ‘using her voice’.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. However, at the time she hit out and said she had ‘been here long before anyone else’ and shared an old video showing her defending Britney from paparazzi and hecklers.īut in 2020, she reportedly sought more control over her sister’s fortune and filed a court request for all the assets of Britney’s SJB Revocable Trust to be moved into one or more ‘blocked accounts’. The sisters together in 2003 (Picture: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images)īack in 2008, Britney, now 41, was placed under her infamous conservatorship.Ī decade later it was reported her younger sister became a trustee of a portion of Britney’s estate and once the #FreeBritney movement kicked off, many people started criticising Jamie Lynn for seemingly supporting her sister’s life being controlled by the court order.
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