- December 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
In early 2008, a small-time Tennessee company with big-time aspirations made a loan to Britney Spears’s father, who for years had struggled financially.
Less than a month later — after consulting with the owner of the company, Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group — James P. Spears had his daughter placed into a conservatorship, a legal arrangement typically reserved for people unable to care for themselves or work. He would wield vast power over her life and finances.
Mr. Spears soon sent his daughter on a 97-show international tour. And he hired Tri Star, to whom he still owed at least $40,000, to manage Ms. Spears’s business.
Over the ensuing decade, that assignment would generate millions of dollars for Tri Star and help transform it and its owner, Louise M. Taylor, into one of the premier managers in entertainment, with clients including the Kardashians.
Today, Ms. Taylor — a deeply religious former bookkeeper who had few notable clients…
