Oops! Britney Spears faked
her wedding amid pre-nup row: US
magazine
Thursday September 23, 5:28 AM
US teen queen Britney Spears, who stunned fans with her secret
wedding last weekend, faked the marriage amid a row over her
pre-nuptial contract with her fiance, Us magazine said.
The American weekly claimed in its October 4 edition that it had
obtained documents signed by the 22-year-old pop diva and her beau
Kevin Federline, 26, stating that Saturday's marriage was held as a
"faux wedding."
"Britney Spears and Kevin Federline ... agree that they intend to
participate in a 'faux' wedding with one another on September 18,
2004," a document signed by the pair on September 14 states,
according to Us magazine.
"However they do not intend to and shall not validly marry one
another on said date," the four-page document reportedly
said.
US quoted a draft copy of a pre-nuptial contract between the pair
that said they intend to marry -- for real -- on October 16.
Spears representatives were not immediately available for comment
on the report that said the couple had not yet filed a marriage
licence with Los Angeles authorities following the wedding at a
friend's home.
But rival People magazine, which had excusive US rights to
photographs of the Spears-Federline wedding, however insisted that
the marriage was the real thing.
The wedding was billed as the singing sensation's second in just
nine-months, following an impromptu 55-hour Las Vegas marriage to a
childhood friend in January that was soon annulled.
But Us claimed that the multi-millionairess pop idol and her
reportedly impoverished back-up dancer fiance, who announced their
engagement in June, decided to put it off marrying until they could
hammer out a mutually acceptable legal agreement over how to share
their assets.
Under California law, couples can be forced to split their wealth
50-50 when they divorce unless a pre-nuptial contract divvying it
up in a different way is signed before they wed.
The magazine said it had obtained a draft of a pre-nuptial contract
stipulating that if the couple split, Federline would only be
entitled to 300,000 dollars a year for exactly half the term of the
marriage, instead of 50 percent of Spears' total wealth.
Under the draft contract, Spears, who is worth anywhere from 32 to
100 million dollars according to various reports, would also not be
financially responsible for Federline's two young children by
another woman.
Us magazine claimed that in addition to the wrangling over the
pre-nuptial agreement, that Spears had reportedly been loath to
make Federline sign, Spears wanted to avoid possible leaks by
Federline's relatives to the press ahead of her real wedding next
month.
(source: Yahoo News)
