Britney Spears is thrifty! Sort of. TMZ and the NY Post got their hands on Britney Spears’ 2012 expenses (both personal and professional, I guess), and it seems like Britney is a decent bargain-hunter. Sort of. Quite honestly, Britney Spears and I have similar shopping patterns. I too bargain-hunt at dollar stores and I pick up fast food a few times a week. I don’t frequent Starbucks (I don’t drink coffee) but I do pay too much for law maintenance. That being said, I still don’t understand how Britney spent $6.8 million in one year…?
Britney Spears made a fortune last year — way more than $10 million — but she’s still a hardcore bargain shopper … this according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ.
According to documents, Britney’s conservatorship raked in nearly $14 mil in 2012. But here’s the thing … she spent $6.8 mil, which sounds like a lot, but a closer look makes Brit look like a bargain hunter.
— $63.74 at a 99 Cents Plus
— $11.92 at Pay 99 Cents Or Less
— A tab from Subway, Wetzel’s Pretzels, Domino’s, IHOP, 7-11, El Pollo Loco, McDonalds, In-N-Out, Coffee Bean, Starbucks, and Romano’s Macaroni Grill.
— $33,959 on grooming and wardrobe — bargain basement for a big star.But there are extravagances as well … like a $500 manicure. And get this — $3,400 on XMAS lights.
Our favorite — Britney paid $1,500 to her Kentwood, Louisiana yard boy — aka, Jamie Lynn’s baby daddy Casey Aldridge.
As for Britney’s total worth … it’s a lot. The conservatorship alone now has $36.4 million. And that doesn’t include a huge chunk of her net worth … including the $68 mil she made on her last concert tour and the $15 mil she snagged from “X Factor.”
So how did she spend $6.8 million on that? Was there a real estate purchase that I’m missing? And I guess I don’t understand the intricacies of Britney’s conservatorship because how is it the conservatorship is worth $36.4 million but her “net worth” is much more than that? It was my understanding that Jamie Spears controlled every aspect of Britney’s finances, so her entire financial portfolio should fall under the “conservatorship”. And I’ve never understood all of the hand-wringing about Britney “needing” to work to bring in money – she was worth more than $100 million before her mental breakdown and the breakdown and subsequent conservatorship didn’t leech that much money from her estate. My take is that Britney is worth in excess of $150 million, all of which is likely controlled by Jamie Spears.
Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame/Flynet.
Was ‘law maintenance’ meant to be lawn maintenance? 😉
ah I was wondering about that.
Bob Loblaw’s Law Maintenance.
You can read about it on the Bob Loblaw Law Blog.
An Arrest Development and a Parks and Rec reference all in the comments of one article….this is why I love you guys 😊
It’s her money, she earned it so she can spend it any way she pleases. I like a chick who loves a good bargain.
And it’s not like she wouldn’t have to pay for her whole family. They all depend on her.
Yeah. Shes still paying that freeloader KFed maintainence. Child support is understandable but spousal support over five years later is total bs. Hopefully, this loser is off the tit now that he finally (probably reluctantly) married.
ita, i dont feel like this should be public info either
Yep. She earnt it so she can spend it on whatever she likes.
Now she has the sneaker version of the Uggs she loves so much!
She looks so sad and lost in that first picture.
You’re right. I just noticed that.
I think she looks fine. If you look at her eyes, they are naturally shaped so they tilt down at the ends.
I can’t fault her, I love me some dollar stores.
I’m not sure she’s worth in excess of 100 million, or at least she wasn’t in the aftermath of her mental breakdown. There was a few years of absolutely crazy spending where her money out was far exceeding what she was bringing in, and very little of the cash was spent on anything that could be described as an asset eg. she spent almost a million in one year on cheap plastic crap for her dogs. The fact that her finances were a mess played a part/still plays a big part in the conservatorship. It sounds like this stupid spending is continuing, she’s just on a tighter leash.
Her finances were a mess and that was an impetus for her family to seek a conservatorship, but not grounds for one. At the time, she was an adult amd could fritter her money away how she saw fit. It’s not the job of the court to come in and say that she’s spending money badly, therefor we will take away her rights as an adult.
That poor girl looks so tired.Poor Brit.I am sure a lot of her money goes to taking care of other people.Plus cars,expensive homes, and vacations.I can see where alot of her money went too.
I’d imagine all the security and other expenses are covered by this as well?
I don’t know why they push her to work either. She’s made enough money, just let her hang out with her kids and be happy.
The problem is, when you live really lavishly like this and blow money on ridiculous things like Christmas lights, it can lead you to a point 10-15 years down the line when no more money is coming in and you can go broke. She is not going to be a pop star forever.
It’s her life, I don’t care – I just always cringe when I see people who have everything in the world mismanage it.
Clearly these reports have left out the names of those that are receiving the biggest portion of Britney Spears income: Lawyers! There is literally a team of them. Don’t forget to consider her medical care, child support payments to Kevin Federline which is $20,000 per month, also her children’s private school tuition which could be as much as $50,000 annually. Her own father receives money from her by the month, the upkeep of her mother’s home in Louisiana isn’t cheap, the managers get paid a percentage, around the clock security fees, the list goes on.
Well said.
Professional services and upkeep on her home(s), vehicles, etc., could easily account for a chunk of $500K per month.
Don’t forget TAXES.
She’s never really been the type that seems into really expensive things- she’s photographed in Target a lot. She seems really down to earth.
Totally
I love that she does her thing.. It’s endearing
Unlike miley who tries so hard to prove herself and fails. Britney is the one who was bald; yet miley is the one i’m embarrassed for Hmmmm.
How she chooses to spend her money is her business. She earned it.
I feel like I’ve done the same.
Me too! I love the 99 cents stores. I go to one around my way every other weekend.
LOL! That sh*t adds up. It’s like “whoa, how did I get all of that in my cart?”
I love a bargain too. H***, give me a good resale shop and Good Will and it’s new wardrobe time. No one knows the difference.
She’s staying out of serious trouble and far more mentally stable than her “pink wig” days, so leave her alone and let her spend her money.
Whatever plastic surgery Britney had recently has changed her considerably and made her look even older. It’s odd…her skin looks better, but her face looks older. Not sure what happened.
I think I’ve figured out why she looks different: she got her nose re-contstructed again. In that pic, it’s much thinner than it was just a year or so. She looks great. Just different.
Her eyes look different to me also…more turned down than they used to be?
Yes I agree with you guys about her eye’s.They do turn down and make her look different.The sun,smoking,and her med’s have really taken a toll on her.
I agree with Quinn – her eyes are more down-turned than before. Not sure why…but it makes her look sad.
The combination of a terrible diet, cigarettes and anti-psychotics. It will be much, much worse in 10 years. The body can’t sustain that level of abuse without showing it.
Would she be on anti-psychotics for bi-polar?
You are likely right about the diet and cigarettes.
That’s a decade of hard living all etched on her face. Plus she likes too tan
@ UsedToBeLulu: yeah, quite likely she would be. However, it’d almost certainly be atypical antipsychotics – the old antipsychotics have too many nasty side effects for long term use.
So yes, but perhaps not the specific drugs you’re thinking of.
Saw an interview with her the other day and she looked so normal and almost happy. She didn’t look dead in the eyes at all. Maybe she is getting back to a sense of normalcy
It’s her money, the rest her family can spend it any way they want.
Pay Momma
Pay Daddy
Pay K-fed
Pay Aldridge
I am sorry I opened this. I had no idea it would be so detailed.
This is awful. The right to privacy has vanished in the age of “instant access”.
No one should have the right to access someone’s finances, let alone publish them like this. It goes along with arrest reports, mug shots, divorce proceedings, autopsy reports, etc.
Totally agree. There’s no reason at all for this to be made public.
It doesn’t seem like anyone went digging into her financial affairs. It seems like the info was offered. Possibly by someone in her camp.
I hate the 99 cents store, I end up buying so much unintended candy.
“Unintended Candy.” I love that. Andy on Parks & Rec would call it as his new band name.
LOL! I buy so many useless things too. Just unintended crap.
lol…”baby in a straight jacket…that’s a good name!”
all that money and she still dresses like a college kid in their dorm room.
+1000! No way anyone unless they fill mansions w/ junk and are huge themselves can spend millons a year at the dollar store. No matter how thrifty you are, even when not everything is a dollar. However, money going to Lawyers, Daddy, child support, Ex-Spouse, etc, etc… now that makes sense.
the +1000 was supposed to go to @ANAYA. Sorry:)
I think this just shows that you can take the girl out of the trailer park but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl-and I’m not saying that as a cricism.
When i was broke or when i’m making good money, i still love to bargain shop. after you find good deals, you want to keep finding them. you feel a little foolish paying more for something you got for so little earlier
I can’t believe she only spent 33 grand on hair/makeup/wardrobe for an entire year. That is a tiny amount for a star as big as she is. Just compare that to Goop’s spring wardrobe which alone was over 500,000!!! I feel like Brit spends her money the same way a lot of ordinary people would if they suddenly became rich.
I love fast food, soooo yummy and convenient!
Britney has always been pretty low maintenance compared to other big celebrities. She’s pretty down to earth