Britney Finalizes Marriage and Fires Manager

After some skepticism from the press as to the legitimacy of Britney Spears' marriage to dancer Kevin Federline, the star announced Thursday that the paperwork from last month's ceremony has been legally filed. Spears, now a wife and step mom, has also chosen to part with the manager who first discovered her in Louisiana 9 years ago.

"All the proper paperwork was dealt with today, filed, done. It's all legal," Spears' publicist, Leslie Sloane, told Reuters.

People magazine reported that Spears, 22, and Federline, 26, proclaimed their "I dos" in a secret wedding ceremony in Los Angeles last month; however, People's greatest competitor magazine, US Weekly, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the nuptials, reporting it had obtained documents proving the whole ceremony was fake.

Spears acknowledged that she and Federline had not filed a marriage license, which California law requires within 90 days of the ceremony, but insisted their wedding was real, and that the couple was waiting for that grace period to finalize their prenuptial agreement.

In other contract news, Spears' longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, announced Thursday that he and the singer had "mutually agreed not to renew their nine-year management relationship" because as he stated, "Britney and I simply realized what we have done all we can do together."

Sloane said the split was amicable and added no decisions have been made about future management for Spears.

For now it seems Ms. Spears is in complete control of her career and as her latest single reminds us that's her "Perogative".