Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly Jeff Weiss. MCD, $19 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-60613-8 ...

A look at Britney Spears’s historic rise and equally tragic fall told by a former tabloid writer. The book is a blend of fact and fiction from Jeff Weiss, who covered Britney for years. Weiss ...

‘Waiting for Britney Spears’: Behind the Scenes of Her Infamous Summit With Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan In an excerpt from his buzzy new book, Jeff Weiss recalls a mid-2000s golden age when ...

Weiss said that he had known Spears since she was 16 when he signed her for a contract with Jive Records. "She's a superstar, a household name in every country in the world," Weiss said.

Barry Weiss, who headed Jive Records, the label on which Spears recorded, said his only contact from Lutfi in 2007-08 was when Weiss asked him for assurance that Spears would be on set to record a ...

A top recording executive testified Monday that he was Britney Spears' "lifeline" during the darkest days of her well-documented meltdown and never heard that she had a new manager named Sam Lutfi.