The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.

The release of Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me, means she gets to reclaim her story after it has been told for her for too long. And in a way, I got to revisit and reclaim my own, too.

Two new books chronicle the lives of two pop idols, Madonna and Britney Spears. The way each came to stardom — and what happened to them after — illuminates why their paths have been so different.

New excerpts touching on her childhood and relationship with Justin Timberlake are drawing fans interested in her side of the story.

Say it ain't so, but summer's almost over. Keep Lady Gaga's party mantra — bus, club, another club, another club, plane, next place, no sleep — in your heart with this recklessly fun mix.

Jason Alexander was Spears' first husband. The two were childhood friends but were only married for 55 hours before it was annulled. Alexander pleaded not guilty to all charges he is facing.

Britney Spears married longtime partner Sam Asghari months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship. The wedding happened nine months after the pair were engaged.

The 40-year-old pop star had her 13-year conservatorship terminated late last year. Spears is a mother to two teen boys from an earlier marriage.

After 13 years living under a legal arrangement that controlled both her personal life and finances, the pop star was released from her conservatorship Friday.

On Wednesday, Jamie Spears was suspended as his daughter's conservator. Is all the media attention, including three new Spears documentaries, still welcome?

At a hearing Wednesday at Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Brenda J. Penny suspended the pop star's father from controlling her financial affairs. Britney Spears has accused him of exploiting her.

Spears and her father petitioned to end his conservatorship role. A Los Angeles judge has granted that request.

Netflix's Britney vs Spears and Hulu's Controlling Britney Spears — released right before an important hearing on the singer's conservatorship — piece together how Spears lost control of her life.

The filing represents the first time Britney Spears has called for an end to the arrangement in court documents, though she has called for its termination in hearings.

James Spears says, in July, Jodi Montgomery suggested the possibility of involuntarily detaining the singer in a psychiatric hospital. Montgomery released a statement disputing that account.