By Mark Gray
10:00pm PDT, Oct 1, 2023
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The matriarch of the Spears family is in dire straits financially.
Britney Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, is reportedly taking on part-time work at a Louisiana school as she struggles to pay her bills — despite the fact that her famous daughter is reportedly worth $60 million. Lynn's younger daughter, Jamie Lynn Spears, is estimated to be worth $6 million.
"[Lynne] is struggling to pay her bills, but she has already substituted for several classes at [a local school]," a source told DailyMail.com. Substitute teachers make about $15 a hour in Kentwood, Louisiana, where Lynne is teaching.
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Britney Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, knows her way around a classroom. Prior to her older daughter's rise to fame in the late '90s, the 68-year-old worked as a teacher and ran a daycare in Louisiana.
After Britney struck it rich with a string of hits, the "Toxic" singer reportedly built her mom a $2 million mansion. Lynne soon took over several Britney-associated companies and quit her teaching gigs.
But now that Lynn's relationship with Britney has soured, the "Through The Storm" author's finances have been "seriously impacted," DailyMail.com's source said.
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In April 2022, several months after Britney Spears' conservatorship was terminated, Lynne Spears filed to have her daughter pay a $660,000 attorney bill she'd racked up. Britney's team balked at the request and her lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, said "no legal authority" supported Lynne's claim that Britney's estate should cover the bill.
He also argued that Britney had spent $1.7 million on Lynne over the years, claiming that her mom had "for at least a decade resided in a large, expansive house owned by Britney" for which the singer paid "utilities, telephone services, insurance, property taxes, landscaping, pool work, pest control, repairs and maintenance."
"This was the final nail in the coffin for Lynne," DailyMail.com's source said. "She could not fight with Britney anymore and she knew that asking her to pay her half-million-dollar lawyer bill was not right, considering what Britney had been through. Not only that, but Lynne was really trying to repair her relationship with Britney. Taking more money from her was not the way to do it."
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There was a time earlier this year when it appeared as though the ice had thawed between Lynne Spears and Britney Spears. Photos showed Lynne arriving at her daughter's Los Angeles-area home and Britney later said the two were working toward "making things right" between them.
"My sweet mama showed up at my door step yesterday after 3 years … it's been such a long time … with family there's always things that need to be worked out … but time heals all wounds!!!" Britney wrote on Instagram in May 2023. "After being able to communicate what I've held in for an extremely long time, I feel so blessed we were able to try to make things RIGHT!!! I love you so much!!! Psss… I'm so blessed we can have coffee together after 14 years!!! Let's go shopping afterwards!!!"
The reconciliation was apparently short-lived.
According to DailyMail.com, Lynne wants her daughter to return to her roots — especially amid Brit's divorce from Sam Asghari. He filed in August after a little more than a year of marriage.
"Lynne is begging [Britney] to leave L.A. and live with her" in Louisiana, a source said. "L.A. is toxic and the only thing keeping her there was [Sam]. Lynne believes she can heal and regroup in Louisiana, then return to L.A. when she is ready. Instead of working with her family to get her help, [they feel that] he abandoned her as soon as things got tough."
