Britney Spears‘ former manager, Sam Lutfi, has filed an appeal after being ordered to stay away from the singer for three years.
Lutfi’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, argues that he was only responding to the singer’s “cries for help” to buck her father’s legal control. “Sam’s only crime was trying to help out a friend,” says Freedman, who has argued there is no evidence that the Toxic hitmaker suffered substantial emotional abuse.
The restraining order was requested by Jamie Spears, who has indefinite legal control over his daughter after her two forced hospitalization in early 2008.

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