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Topic: Conservatorship

Wendy Williams attends the ceremony honoring her with a Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame held on October 17, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Michael Tran/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Wendy Williams opposes her guardianship

Singer Britney Spears (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Britney gets "final piece of freedom"

Gabriella Ferrigine

Where Is Wendy Williams? (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Tuomas A. Lehtinen/Lifetime/Calvin Gayle)

Wendy Williams won't be silenced yet

Melanie McFarland

Cher attends the grand opening of Fontainebleau Las Vegas on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Cher's bid for conservatorship denied

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Cher is seen wearing dark shades and big silver diamond earrings, a black top with silver ornaments and matching oversized black jacket with silver ornaments on it before the Valentino Fashion Show during the Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 01, 2023 in Paris, France. (Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images)

Cher files for conservatorship of son

Britney Spears (Michelangelo Di Battista/Sony/RCA via Getty Images)

8 bombshells in Britney's new memoir

Singer Britney Spears (Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

We're also celebrating Britney's divorce

Jesse Williams and Britney Spears (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Disturbing reaction to Spears' nude pics

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US singer Britney Spears arrives for the premiere of Sony Pictures' "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on July 22, 2019. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

The victory of Britney Spears' pregnancy

Amanda Bynes (Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Amanda Bynes bids to end conservatorship

Honoree Britney Spears accepts the Vanguard Award onstage at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 12, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for GLAAD)

Movie over, sis, Britney has a tell-all

Honoree Britney Spears accepts the Vanguard Award onstage at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 12, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for GLAAD)

Britney's family can't quit her fame

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Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Starlets reclaimed their lives in 2021

Britney Spears performs at the NOW 99.7 Triple Ho Show 7.0 SAP Center on December 3, 2016 in San Jose, California. (Steve Jennings/WireImage/Getty Images)

I was in a cult and captive like Britney

#FreeBritney activists protest outside Courthouse in Los Angeles during Conservatorship Hearing on April 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Eugenics legacy in conservatorships

Michaela Kathleen Curran - The Conversation

Singer Britney Spears walks the red carpet at the 2017 Pre-GRAMMY Gala And Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Debra Lee at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 11, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Britney's dad leaves conservatorship

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Britney Spears attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Arrivals at Madison Square Garden on August 28, 2016 in New York City. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The legal bias against mental illness

#FreeBritney activists protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Britney Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

This model may help others like Britney

Britney Spears onstage performing at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards held at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 6, 2001. (Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

Britney and millennial women are fed up

Tabitha Blankenbiller

A cardboard cutout depicting Britney Spears is seen during a #FreeBritney protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Spears is expected to address the court remotely. Spears was placed in a conservatorship managed by her father, Jamie Spears, and an attorney, which controls her assets and business dealings, following her involuntary hospitalization for mental care in 2008. (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Bombshell testimony revives #FreeBritney

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Framing Britney Spears (FX)

Britney doc bares our complicit misogyny

Ashlie D. Stevens

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