Washington, Feb 3 : It has now emerged that pop princess Britney Spears' former manager Sam Lutfi had made attempts at persuading her to name him as conservator of her estate early last year.

After her much publicised meltdown at the start of 2008, Spears lost the custody of her two sons-Sean Preston, three, and Jayden James, two-and her father Jamie was put in charge of her assets, along with attorney Andrew Wallet.

But as per court documents, which were leaked online, Lutfi had tried to get Spears to fight against her dad and turn all legal responsibility over to him.

He reported instructed his lawyer Jon Eardley to write to Spears informing her of his plan to get her out of hospital, and win back custody of her kids.

"I have developed a legal strategy for you that I am confident will turn everything around, and ultimately garner you full custody of your children within approximately 30 to 60 days," Contactmusic quoted him as having written in a letter.

"They will not be happy until they have denied you your freedom and milked you for your last dime. The custody case, as you know, is nothing more than a flat out extortion scheme, with your children being used as pawns. Your case will continue to spiral until they have denied you your freedom, your children and your assets...

"Please recognise that aside from some anxiety and depression, which are totally normal under these circumstances, there is nothing wrong with you, but that the court system routinely engages in character assassination to conceal its internal bias and to break you down.

"What they ultimately want is to get you into a conservatorship; at that point, your freedom will be denied, giving them the full opportunity to steal all of your money and to deny you any access to your children," he added.

The revelations come days after a court hearing was scheduled to review Spears'' temporary restraining order against Lutfi, Eardley and her ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib.

The decision is due on February 23. (ANI)