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Britney, who was joined by her mother Lynne, also unwisely abandoned her bra for the day, despite clearly needing the support.
Meanwhile, the 26-year-old has been ordered to pay ex-husband Kevin Federline $US375,000 to cover his legal fees in their ongoing child-custody dispute.
Federline’s lead attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan was asking for nearly a half-million dollars.
Commissioner Scott Gordon issued the order Monday in response to arguments presented last week.
Britney’s attorney Stacy Phillips argues that Kaplan was overbilling and that Federline can pay his own legal bills, but Gordon says that the star’s actions led to a great majority of the litigation and delays in the case.
Federline has full custody of the two little boys Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, 17 months.
Britney spent time with the children over the weekend, under the watchful eye of her father.
The singer was also seen meeting film star Mel Gibson for dinner at the Romanov restaurant in Studio City, Los Angeles on Saturday.
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Who cares! She’s human.
Oh goodness gracious! Britney now looks like 99& of the rest of the females on earth. Whats this world coming to?
- Jethro Tull, Los Angeles USA
Enough already! The girl is trying to get her life back together. So her legs aren’t perfect.

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It’s Litigation Wednesday here at People Central, which means it’s time to catch up with our favorite celebrities’ comings and going in the courtroom.
A state appeals court has dismissed a lawyer’s challenge to the order giving Britney Spears’ father control over much of her life. Jon Eardley, who claimed to represent the 26-year-old pop star, challenged a court decision making James Spears a co-conservator of his daughter’s estate.
Justice Roger Boren of the California Court of Appeal wrote in a ruling Monday that the court has no jurisdiction to grant an appeal.
Eardley claimed the conservatorship violated Spears’ civil rights. A federal judge previously ruled that Eardley is not Spears’ attorney and has no authority to act for her.
James Spears was named co-conservator of his daughter’s estate Feb. 1 after she was twice hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. Conservatorships are granted for people deemed unable to take care of themselves or their affairs.
Sounds like this Eardley guy might need one of them conservators.
In even more exciting legal news, Sean “I Diddy Dang Didn’t Kill Tupac” Combs settled a lawsuit filed by a man claiming Combs punched him after a post-Oscar party outside a Hollywood hotel.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in court papers posted Monday on TMZ.com. The suit by Gerard Rechnitzer said Combs punched him, pushed his girlfriend and spat on another woman on Feb. 25 outside Teddy’s Nightclub at the Hollywood Roosevelt
In court papers, Combs, 38, said Rechnitzer lunged toward him and that “any contact … was caused by his forward motion against my open hand.” We stress that at no time has Combs said any contact Tupac Shakur had with a bullet was caused by his forward motion toward the gun.
Let’s see, what other legal foolishness can we delve into … oh, yes: A man charged with stalking Tyra Banks has been ordered to stay away from the talk-show host or face going to jail.

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BY CHRISTOPHER WYNN
Nestled beneath American Airlines Center’s massive video screen, and across the plaza from mega-watt eateries N9NE and Nove, two upstart tastemakers are bringing their own electricity to Victory Park. Late last month, they flipped the switch on a boutique Mexican cafe and tequileria (it gets easier to pronounce after a margarita) dubbed La Condesa Comida y Tequila.
Consider it the little eatery that could.
Named after the chic Mexico City neighborhood that inspired it, the restaurant is a reflection of creators Donald Chick and Jesse Herman: youthful, casual, more worldly than you’d initially expect.
The men’s friendship turned business venture began in 2006, when their paths crossed at Victory Park. Chick was the project’s creative director at the time, overseeing retail and restaurant development and leasing. But he also had quite the hospitality résumé, including a lounge opened during his SMU days and an event-planning stint with Mico Rodriguez’s M-Crowd (Mi Cocina, Taco Diner, Mercury Grill).
Herman, a Boston native, made his name as a nightclub guru in New York and Miami before branching into mixed-use developments, which led him (naturally) to Dallas – and to Chick. Drinks were poured, conversation was made, and over time, a fanciful idea to launch a boutique eatery began to take flight.
"There are many great restaurants and venues at Victory," acknowledges Herman over midafternoon drinks at the Uptown townhouse Chick shares with BeE Woman magazine creator Celine Gumbiner. (The two walk the aisle this month.) "But what we felt was missing was some place more casual, more low-key."
Skimping on design was not an option. In fact, quite the opposite. When their concept developed a Mexican bent, the two well-traveled architecture- and design-philes headed south of the border to do their homework.

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