Britney Charged In L.A. Parking Lot Crash
Spears Charged With Misdemeanor Counts Of Hit And Run, Driving Without License
24LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21, 2007
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Singer Britney Spears performs on stage during the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. (Getty Images/Kevin Winter)
(AP) Britney Spears' legal woes mounted Friday as prosecutors charged her with misdemeanor counts of hit and run and driving without a valid license after she allegedly smashed her car into another vehicle in a parking lot.
If convicted, the singer could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for each count, said Nick Velasquez, spokesman for the city attorney's office.
Messages left with Spears' attorneys were not immediately returned.
The case comes days after a court commissioner ordered Spears to undergo random drug and alcohol testing twice a week as part of a child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline. She must also meet eight hours a week with a parenting coach, who will observe and report back to the court about her parenting skills.
Meanwhile, her management firm dropped her as a client this week, and a performance at MTV's Video Music Awards that was supposed to herald her comeback was widely panned.
The fallen pop star's latest problems stem from an Aug. 6 crash in a Studio City parking lot. Paparazzi captured Spears, 25, with a puppy on her lap while steering her car into another vehicle as she tried to park her black Mercedes-Benz convertible. After assessing the damage to her car, she was caught on paparazzi video walking away.
Kim Robard-Rifkin, the owner of the other vehicle, filed a police report three days after the accident. Investigators later determined that Spears does not have a license, officials said.
"A check of state records shows that no California license has ever been issued to Ms. Spears," Velasquez said.
Robard-Rifkin, a 59-year-old registered nurse, learned it was Spears who had hit her car through a video posted on the celebrity Web site CelebTV.com.
She said she was "sort of amused and sort of shocked" when she learned Spears was the source of the damage, adding that she had expected to hear from the star's camp.
"I simply want my car fixed, the same as I would fix somebody's car if I had done that," Robard-Rifkin told the site in August.
Spears was scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 10. She is not required to appear.
Her new album is set for release Nov. 13.
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to follow up on. just for fun. melissa
wilson is the real mother of britney.
doris carlin is the real mother of melissa
wilson. the fathers? many suspects, no
firm leads. teen parents. grandparents
by age 27. some just do not approve
of abortion. adoption better. to a cousin.
show. she did have on stiletto tap heels. i had
commented she should have had those on. good
flamenco shoes. and ya know, after seeing the
photo, i realized she did have on stiletto flamenco
tap heels. good going. nice of her to wear black
widow clothing for all the men who have died, defending
the right to dissent from popular opinion. most
women are fans of military men , not sissy singers.
right to get drunk, stoned and make love to anyone
and anything. how absolutely absurd. britney''s
behavior is latino star behavior. in latino
cultures stars are more important than the sun
itself. they have special permission to do as
they please. that''s a stars prerogative.
as the usa becomes more and more latino, expect
more of the same. i see around my town sometime
in a black limo. she tailed me one day with
her entourage. i thought i was gonna be killed.
the driver had to get a cheesesteak sandwich
from our local phillly franks cheesesteak shop,
so they could make the run back to los angeles, ca.
i got outta my car and smoked three or four cigarettes
and she put down the back window and blew me a kiss.
beats getting shot with a silencer pistol i tell ya.
there are the big people and the little people.
leprachauns and giants. i play the pauper very well,
for *** good reason. yay whispy seas, right on bro.
other than that, i have no comment. thanks for
our daily britney.
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