News and gossip about Britney Spears

A former UCLA Medical Center employee was indicted on charges that she accessed the records of dozens of high-profile patients and selling the information to a media outlet, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The indictment follows revelations of privacy breaches involving at least 61 patients at the University of California, Los Angeles’ hospitals, including actress Farrah Fawcett, singer Britney Spears and California first lady Maria Shriver.

The indictment accuses Lawanda Jackson, 49, of one count of illegally obtaining individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage. Under seal since April 9, the indictment was made public Tuesday.

Jackson is accused of receiving at least $4,600 from the unidentified media outlet in exchange for providing the private medical information. The indictment also did not identify the celebrities whose records were allegedly accessed.

The indictment said the media outlet paid Jackson by writing checks to her husband.

Jackson worked as an administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center from 2006 until she quit upon learning she was going to be fired, on May 21, 2007.

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Britney was caught in the Gym with just a towel wrapped around her body as she had just completed a very hard workout and then went to get changed. She then realized that she had forgotten her bottle of water and decided to stay in her towel from the changing rooms.

A few people from the gym watched in disbelief as they was met with this once mad singer standing in the middle of the gym with just a towel on. Britney is now doing a great job with not only trying to get her body back into the fit shape that it once was but also trying to get her private life and singing career back on track.

The pop star has been spending at least 6 hours each day on the cardio machines, which is how she has managed to drop 20 pounds in just thirty days.

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For years, people have wondered what it would take for the public finally to lose interest in that tediously troubled singer, Britney Spears. And now we have an answer: her name is Miley Cyrus. She’s young. She’s feeding the media scandal after scandal (admittedly minor and tame). And she’s got a $1 billion empire. She is the new Britney Spears and the most searched person on the planet.

The parental bible in the Britney Spears/Kevin Federline custody war is in — and it is powerful, folks.

It’s called the Child Custody Evaluation report. Sources say it is “several hundred” pages long, and lawyers for both sides received it on Friday. Our sources say the report is a “mixed bag” — both encouraging and damaging for Britney.

The report, written by Dr. Jane Shatz, is extremely detailed. There is a hearing next week (May 06) in the custody case and the report could be all-telling.

And, sources say, the report “makes it more likely that Britney will show for the hearing.”

Lawyers for both sides refused to comment or respond.

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Britney Spears’ number one hits have been turned into art pieces for a new Arizona exhibition.
Current and former Arizona State University graduate students have created a series of mixed media exhibits inspired by 11 Spears chart-toppers.
The Number Ones show, which opens on Friday (02-May-2008) at the LAS Gallery in Phoenix, will feature video, photographic and mixed media inspired by Spears’ biggest hits.
Photography graduate student Peter Bugg is curating the show.

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According to an inside source, the “Gimme More” singer will be filming a new episode that will be airing on May 12th, to coincide with the network’s sweeps week.

The episode is scheduled to begin production on Monday (05-May-2008) and will feature Spears alongside the sitcom’s star Neil Patrick Harris, as their characters continue their on screen love affair.

Reportedly Britney is ecstatic, and feeling is mutual. The show’s executive producer and co-creator Craig Thomas told press, “We’re all so thrilled to have Britney joining us once again.”

“And just to head it off at the pass this time around: Yes, Mom, Britney’s very nice and no, I can’t get her autograph for you,” Thomas added, jokingly.

Spears’ appearance in the March 24 episode won her good reviews and boosted the show’s viewership to 10.6 million viewers, in comparison to the 9.6 million who had tuned in the previous week.

When last seen, Abby was flirting with womanizer Barney (cast member Neil Patrick Harris). The new episode, which began production Monday, has Abby and Barney sharing their mutual dislike of Ted (cast member Josh Radnor) and acting on it.

“How I Met Your Mother” stars Harris, Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel (”Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) as an urban family of 20-something New Yorkers.

The pop star’s camp originally approached the show about taking part, executive producer Carter Bays told The Associated Press earlier this month.

The National Enquirer has details of the diet and fitness regime Britney’s on in an effort to lose 20 pounds and kick start her comeback, and I hope they have some of the details wrong it because it sounds grueling. Supposedly Britney’s newly re-hired manager, Larry Rudolph, put her on the program, and this would make sense because he is also the person who is said to be brokering the deal to have her represent Bally Total Fitness.

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Paris Hilton and Britney Spears have been targeted by the author of a new animal rights book - for their growing pet zoos.
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals writer Karen Dawn accuses the former party pals of being awful role models to youngsters who dream of having pets - because they own too many.
Dawn tells the New York Post, “We’ve already seen Paris go through dogs faster than mojitos (cocktails), and I bet nobody warned Britney that California might soon force drivers to keep dogs safely restrained in vehicles - like babies.
“An impulse purchase of a companion for the next 15 years? … Nobody expects them to have the dogs much longer than 15 months.”
Spears has a small collection of chihuahuas which no one seems to see anymore and Hilton recently boasted of breaking California’s dog ownership laws by taking in seven pets.
The socialite also owns a ferret and an exotic kinkajou among the menageries she keeps at her Hollywood home.

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Carrying her trusty ‘ol cigarettes and a can of Coca-Cola, Britney Spears was guided out of a Hollywood recording studio by her parental-appointed bodyguard on Saturday (April 26).

The Gimme More singer was decked out in a baby blue outfit overtop a magenta bikini - looking ready for a trip to the beach.

In related news, Brit’s little sister Jamie Lynn Spears is getting closer to her June due date and “the pregnant 17-year-old is seeking the advice of a life coach near her Kentwood, La., home to deal with her difficult situation,” reports In Touch Weekly.

“Her sister, Britney, changed for the worse as soon as she had children,” a pal told, noting that Britney was rumored to be suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her two sons, Jayden James and Sean Preston. “Jamie Lynn’s terrified the same thing will happen to her.”

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The troubled pop star is seeking professional help to get her career back on track - and she doesn’t seem to mind who knows it.
The Toxic singer was spotted carrying a CD, marked `4/25/08 Britney’s Voice Lesson - Afternoon’ as she left the home of her vocal coach in Tarzana, California on Friday

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