The man who made #FreeBritney a reality hasn’t slept much in four months. He’s worked almost non-stop. He’s lost 10 pounds. So I’m happy to report that Mathew Rosengart took his wife, the publicist Mara Buxbaum, and some friends (including Jeff Ross, Conan O’Brien’s longtime producer) to the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills on Friday night, hours after an L.A. judge terminated Britney Spears’ infamous conservatorship. Rosengart had a steak and some Don Julio.
I’ve known Mat for years, care of his legal work for clients like Sean Penn and Casey Affleck, and I predicted back in July that the former federal prosecutor would run circles around the clowns controlling Spears’ life for the past 13 years. Even so, his success was surprisingly swift and total, leveraging Jamie Spears with the threat of sitting for a deposition and responding to interrogatories. Jamie quickly petitioned to end the entire conservatorship rather than answer probing questions about his role in it.