Britney Spears' longtime manager Larry Rudolph resigns
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Britney Spears' long-time manager Larry Rudolph has resigned as the pop star's manager. Rudolph wrote a letter to Britney's conservators, stating he hadn't talked to the 39-year-old in two-and-a-half years and it is in her best interest that he resign. The news comes amid Spears' court battle to end her conservatorship.
In the letter, which was obtained exclusively by Deadline, Rudolph said he "became aware that Britney had been voicing her intention to officially retire." "As you know, I have never been a part of the conservatorship nor its operations, so I am not privy to many of these details," Rudolph said in the letter, which was addressed to Jamie Spears and Jodi Montgomery, co-executors of the star's estate.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.