How They Controlled BRITNEY

AFTER BRITNEY SPEARS’ BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY, NEW DETAILS ABOUT HER CONSERVATORSHIP SHED LIGHT ON HER LONELY NIGHTMARE.

IT’S like something out of a spy movie. In January 2009, a year into her 13-year conservatorship, Britney Spears was at the gym at the Penninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. Closely watched by a bodyguard, she was startled when a figure — her onetime fixer Sam Lutfi’s younger sister — followed her into the steam room. “She almost screamed,” Christina Lutfi recalled, adding, “but then I said was Sam’s sister, and gave her [a] phone in a ziplock, and she thanked me and ran to put it in her locker.”