Britney Spears’ personal conservator Jodi Montgomery is alleging in new court papers that Spears’ father, Jamie, used $2 million of the pop superstar’s funds in his own defense.

Montgomery has acted as the conservator over Spears’ person since she temporarily took over for Jamie in September 2019, after he asked the court to allow him to step down due to “personal health reasons.” In new documents filed to Los Angeles court on Friday by Montgomery’s attorney Lauriann Wright, she alleges that Jamie has not been acting in the best interest of his daughter.

“It is ironic that Mr. Spears now wants the conservatorship to ‘reflect her wishes,’ since it is no secret that Ms. Spears has wished her father out of her life for years,” she says in the recent filing, adding that he has used “more than $2 million of his daughter’s money” to keep his post as co-conservator of her estate.

Montgomery asked Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny on July 7 to approve that the 24/7 protection she requested be paid for by the conservatorship, which could cost up to $50,000 a month. Jamie’s attorney Vivian Lee Thoreen filed an opposition the next day, arguing that Montgomery “is not the only person involved in this Conservatorship who has received threatening communications and/or death threats” and suggested other feasible options for security.

Montgomery also said in the documents that she and Jamie “should be working as a team to ensure that Ms. Spears’ best interests are being met, that she is on a path to recovery and termination of her conservatorship, and that she is living her best life possible. Instead, Mr. Spears has decided it is time to start the finger-pointing and media attacks.”

Britney’s court-appointed lawyer Samuel D. Ingham III; Bessemer Trust, the wealth management firm that was appointed to be co-conservator of the singer’s financial affairs alongside Jamie; and her longtime manager Larry Rudolph have all recently announced their intentions to step away from the situation in the weeks following her bombshell court hearing. On June 23, the 39-year-old superstar told Judge Penny in an open court that she wished for the end of her “abusive” conservatorship that she entered into in 2008. During her 20-minute testimony, Britney said she believed she should sue Montgomery and her team for making her go visit her therapist and psychiatrist multiple times a week.

But in the new court filing, Montgomery included screenshots with texts from the singer, who’s referred to as “Jane Doe,” where she says, “I need u to stay as my co conservator of person. I’m asking u for ur assistance in getting a new attorney.” Last Wednesday, Montgomery filed a petition for a guardian ad litem to help Britney pick her own attorney to replace Ingham after he requested to resign. She argued this would allow said guardian to retain the attorney Britney wants on her behalf, since the pop star cannot enter into such a contract on her own, and would bypass the need for an evaluation of her capacity to retain her own attorney.

“After 13 years of court-appointed counsel, she wants to select her own counsel,” the filing reads. “At the hearing on June 23, 2021, Ms. Spears addressed the Court and repeatedly expressed her desire to select her own counsel, without an additional medical evaluation.”

Jack Harlow stars on the cover of Footwear News, where he talked about the privilege he has in being a white man at the forefront of today’s hip-hop scene.

Harlow received three nominations at the 2021 BET Awards for best male hip-hop artist, best new artist and best collaboration for the “Whats Poppin” remix, featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne. He faced a lot of online criticism for receiving nods over certain Black artists at a show that calls itself “Culture’s Biggest Night” and celebrates Black culture in entertainment. The 23-year-old rapper also received flak for the artwork of his debut album That’s What They All Say, which depicts a Black woman’s legs next to him in the backseat of a limousine that people argued was sexualizing and objectifying the woman.

But as an artist who’s had multiple opportunities to collaborate with Black artists, from Big Sean to Bryson Tiller, Harlow understands his privilege in the genre and is appreciative of those who have accepted him.

“I feel blessed to have a voice in this period because, one, I’m not a street artist, and two, I’m not Black,” the Louisville, Ky.-based MC told Footwear News. “The only thing keeping me here right now is that level of authenticity, of being myself.”

He recalled his previous conversations with his friend and fellow Kentucky rapper Nemo Achida, who is Black, about the state of hip-hop following the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement last summer. Harlow has joked about the white kids being invited to the party before in his single “Tyler Herro,” when he raps, “I brought a gang to the party with me/ Five white boys, but they not *NSYNC.” But he believes the genre is now headed toward a direction that brings the focus back to the Black community.

“All of this stuff was coming into the fold and it had this energy surrounding it of, ‘We’re letting the white kids come to the party. We’re all in this together,’” Harlow said. “He feels like the country going into these new civil rights moments almost shifted away from, ‘Let’s have the white boy at the party.’ It became less about let’s all be diverse together and turned back into hip-hop being, ‘It needs to be a Black genre.’ That’s just been the natural transformation of things, I think.”

One of the “new civil rights moments” Harlow is referring to is the uproar following the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT who was fatally shot by Louisville police while she was sleeping in her apartment on March 13, 2020. While reflecting on Taylor’s tragic death in his Louisville hometown that sparked nationwide protests, which Harlow participated in, the “Whats Poppin” artist said, “It was a no-brainer for me in terms of where I stood on the topic. There was a moment last summer when we were all marching through the city and there was this feeling that this is historic. This isn’t a viral moment, this is going to be in textbooks and is something I’m going to be able to tell my grandkids about. There was a gravity to what was going on where you felt like you had a responsibility. Where are you going to fall? You can’t be on the fence for this.”

He won’t allow his fans to be on the fence about this, either. The hip-hop rookie-turned-star set the standard for being a Jack Harlow fan as someone who supports the Black community that birthed the very music he makes.

“The things I was doing last summer, any fans who didn’t feel like criticizing the police or were on the other side of things, I was going to weed them out. That could have been a moment for them to no longer be fans,” he said. “But what is important is that I lead by example for all the white kids looking at me. This is what you do. You don’t just enjoy Black culture. You stand up next to Black people in a time of need.”