Sam Lutfi, former manager of Britney Spears has come into question for his links to the paparazzi who follow Brit around L.A. all the time. Michael Joseph Gross, a reporter for Maxim magazine wrote an article about the photographers who chase Britney and discovered Lutfi’s publicity efforts which included a hotline to photographers. He may actually be the source for tipping the paps off about where Britney would be at all times. Gross said:

“The media frenzy (surrounding Spears) was significantly aided and abetted and intensified after Sam Lutfi came on the scene. There’s one paparazzi agency that’s emerged as having the inside track on Britney all the time - they’re the ones who know where she is, where she’s going… It’s called X17. One of the owners of X17 told me that last year she began getting messages from lots of people with funny names; we know that Sam, in the past, has used a lot of pseudonyms. After that she said one day out of the blue, Sam Lutfi called and introduced himself by name, then he started calling more and more often. By the time I was with the paparazzi, they were sitting there getting text messages from him at regular intervals telling them where she was, where she was gonna go”.

Sam Lutfi was served with a restraining order on Friday and was told to keep his distance from Britney and the family. Lynne, Britney’s mother claimed he had admitted to drugging Britney.

Poor Britney, she doesn’t know who she can trust. She really should have taken the advice of other celebrities to stay out of the spotlight and go somewhere for a while to get herself healthy again.

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