Women Affairs

Britney Spears was taken to a Los Angeles hospital early today, after police spent about four hours at her house trying to mediate a custody dispute, according to witnesses. Two ambulances left Britney Spear's house, both headed for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -- one transporting Britney, the other had two-year-old Jayden James in it! A car carrying Jayden's older brother Sean arrived at K-Fed's home a short time later. No word on what Jayden was being treated for. Spears reportedly refused to turn over her sons Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one, to the bodyguard of her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, as planned. LAPD spokesman Jason Lee said police were called to her house about an hour later to try to resolve the dispute. Spears, whose professional and private life has spiralled out of control in the last few years, lost primary custody of the boys in October. A media circus quickly formed outside the security gate to the Summit gated community where Spears lives, wit...

A Judge today dismissed a hit-and-run case against pop star Britney Spears after her lawyer revealed an out-of-court settlement was reached with the person whose car she struck in a parking lot. But the 25-year-old performer is still on the hook for a misdemeanour count of driving without a valid licence in connection with the August 6 fender bender in Los Angeles, said City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan. Spears's lawyer today entered a not guilty plea on her behalf for that charge. She was not in court and is not required to be present for the next hearing, set for November 26. Britney had faced jail sentence Spears had faced up to six months in jail and a $US1000 fine on each of the two counts she was originally charged with. But the judge agreed to drop the hit-and-run case once the civil claim stemming from the incident was resolved, Mr Mateljan said. Details of the settlement were not disclosed. Video footage on TMZ.com of Spears's auto mishap shows her driving a conve...