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US pop star Britney Spears who is fighting a legal battle to end her conservatorship, has now announced her engagement to her long-time boyfriend, Sam Asghari.
To announce their engagement the singer posted a video of them showing off the ring on social media platform.
The 39-year-old pop star is fighting a legal battle to end her 13-year conservatorship, which controls both her personal life and finances.
Spears revealed that the terms of the arrangement are preventing her from marrying Asghari, 27.
The conservatorship arrangement was imposed in 2008 when concerns were raised over her mental health. Her father Jamie Spears looks after her finances and personal affairs.
A conservatorship is granted by a court for individuals who are unable to make their own decisions, like those with dementia or other mental illnesses.
Spears’ conservatorship is split into two parts – one for her estate and financial affairs, the other for her as a person. Under this legal agreement, she has not controlled her finances since 2008.
Jamie Spears was initially in charge of both parts of the conservatorship but stepped down as his daughter’s personal conservator in 2019 for health reasons.
Spears had sought to remove him from the role twice in the last two years. Asghari, an actor and fitness trainer, posted a separate photo of the ring and the couple kissing.
The couple met on the set of a music video in 2016. Asghari was born in the Iranian capital Tehran but moved to Los Angeles at the age of 12 to live with his father, a truck driver.
Asghari has three sisters, who have also emigrated to the US from Iran.
Spears has been married twice before. In 2004, she wed her childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas but the marriage was soon annulled.
Later the same year, she married dancer Kevin Federline, with whom she has two children. The couple divorced in 2007.
In explosive testimony in June, she asked a judge to end the abusive conservatorship so she could get married and have more children. A month later, she said she wished to file charges against her father.
Spears stepped down as the conservator of his daughter’s personal affairs in 2019 due to health issues, and was replaced by Jodi Montgomery, the singer’s long-time care manager. The father still continues to oversee his daughter’s business arrangements.
