Britney Spears Fights Father’s Fee Claim, Alleging Financial Misconduct

A lawyer for Britney Spears, in an effort to thwart her father’s demand that she pay his legal bills, claimed in court papers filed on Tuesday that her father and others involved with her conservatorship had committed myriad financial improprieties over several years.

Among the many accusations in the filing was a claim that Ms. Spears’s father, James P. Spears, paid almost $6 million from her estate to a security firm that somehow obtained private phone records for Ms. Spears’s mother and others and obtained GPS “ping data” to track the locations of people close to Ms. Spears.

Mr. Spears, known as Jamie, was in charge of the conservatorship for most of its nearly 14-year existence, until a judge