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"&lt;img alt=\"10187_britney_sam_tmz\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/10/18/10187-britney-sam-tmz-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The \"&lt;strong&gt;Britney Spears&lt;/strong&gt;\" trial has officially begun, and right out the gate &lt;strong&gt;Sam Lutfi&lt;/strong&gt;'s lawyer told the jury ...&amp;#160; \"She liked to use amphetamines.&amp;#160; Most everything that went wrong was because of this drug.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sam's lawyer, &lt;strong&gt;Joseph Schleimer&lt;/strong&gt;, admitted in opening statements ... Sam used Adderall (an amphetamine) for ADD, but he was adamant, Sam never gave her the drug.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Schleimer claimed, Sam repeatedly told Britney she needed to get off drugs, to no avail.&amp;#160; Schleimer says Sam wanted to bring a new team in -- he called it \"the varsity team\" -- to help save her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Schleimer says in an attempt to clean Brit's house of drugs, he brought in a drug-sniffing dog and found a baggie of crystal meth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schleimer also said Britney's dad &lt;strong&gt;Jamie Spears&lt;/strong&gt; attacked Sam while Sam was working for Britney, punching Sam and knocking the wind out of him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for Sam's managerial role with Britney -- Schleimer says Britney approached HIM to be her manager, offering 15% of her total earnings ... $800,000 a month when she wasn't on tour, and MILLIONS when she was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schleimer also gives Sam credit for hooking Britney up with her fiance &lt;strong&gt;Jason Trawick&lt;/strong&gt; -- claiming he introduced the two at Jason's Halloween party in 2007."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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