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' family spokesperson amid

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's alleged violation of trust in a family intervention. Taylor served as Spears's business manager from 2008 through 2020 and has been credited as the person who established her conservatorship.

Career

Taylor is a CEO of Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group, which she established in 1992. Her clients for Tri Star include Jamie Lynn Spears,

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, among others. Her former clients are

and Niki Taylor. A ''

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'' article paid for by Spears's estate refers to Taylor as "redefining what business management means in the 21st century." In the 2010s, Taylor established further connections as she was working for Spears. On the Tri Star roster, she obtained

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, and

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as clients.

Work with Britney Spears

Spears's mother, Lynne, wrote in her 2008 memoir ''Through the Storm'' that Taylor and Spears's father,

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, had a discussion in 2007 about putting Britney under a

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. "Jamie was going to file for the conservatorship on January 22... but he and his business manager, Lou, felt God leading them to wait, fast and pray, despite the frustration of a phalanx of lawyers." Days before Jamie went to court in 2008 to put Spears under a conservatorship, he received a loan of at least $40,000 from Tri Star. After the conservatorship was put in place, Taylor was officially hired by Jamie as Spears's business manager leading up to the singer's

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. Taylor's role became more prominent in the media following an ongoing conservatorship dispute between Spears and her father. In November 2021, Spears credited Taylor for establishing her conservatorship. Taylor was party to a lawsuit in 2011 against Spears's estate, in which Brand Sense Partners, a licensing firm, claimed that the estate breached its contract with

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#FreeBritney controversy

Taylor came to further prominence in 2019 with the rise of a movement to terminate Spears's conservatorship, dubbed #FreeBritney. During a May 2019 hearing, Judge Brenda J. Penny ordered "an expert evaluation" of the conservatorship. In 2019, Taylor was accused by supporters of the #FreeBritney movement of exploiting Spears's finances, a claim she alleged to be defamation, orchestrated by Spears's former manager, Sam Lutfi. Lutfi also accused Taylor of creating the conservatorship, and leaked alleged 2007 emails implicating her as a "stalker". The lawsuit was dismissed. Amid the controversy, comments by Taylor's client,

, resurfaced; Blige revealed in 2017 that she owed $6.5 million in unpaid back taxes for the years 2008–2016. On February 23, 2022, Spears alleged that Taylor invited her into her office at Tri Star a week before she was sent away to a health facility against her will. Spears also stated her intention to sue Taylor and her company Tri Star.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Lou M. 1965 births Living people Businesspeople from New York (state) American businesspeople American women in business