Britney Spears has reportedly signed a tell-all book deal that will bring the pop music icon as much as $15 million.
What Happened: The New York Post’s Page Six, citing unnamed “publishing insiders,” said Spears will make her book authorship deal via Simon & Schuster, a division of Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARAA), formerly ViacomCBS.
The publisher snagged the rights to the singer’s book in a deal after a bidding war with a rival book company that the unnamed sources claimed will result in a deal that “is one of the biggest of all time, behind the Obamas” — the latter referring to the 2017 deal with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama that brought the couple a reported $60 million.
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Why It Happened: The 40-year-old Spears has been the subject of public and media fixation for both her music and her melodramatic off-stage life, including a 13-year conservatorship that pit her against her father, Jamie Spears, in a case that was settled in court in her favor last September.
Spears found herself in another family feud when younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears authored the memoir “Things I Should Have Said.” Spears replied to the book via Instagram in an open statement to her sister that accused the younger Spears of being a liar and “scum.”
But Spears also seemed to subscribe to the notion of fighting fire with fire — or in this case, fighting one tell-all book with another. Also last month, she posted an Instagram photograph of an old-fashioned typewriter with the caption: “Shall I start from THE BEGINNING???”
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