Celebrity attorney Paul Barresi, who has visited our site and commented here, told Page Six that he spoke with a paparazzo who verified that Britney Spears does call the paparazzi to let them know her every move, as has been rumored. She probably doesn’t call the entire hoard to follow her and just contacts a select few, but they multiply like flies with big ‘ol bug eyes and swarm around her. It’s how Britney gets her kicks, Baressi claims, so when she starts flipping out from all the attention it’s not like the paps are entirely to blame:

Britney Spears is in cahoots with the paparazzi to make sure her every move is chronicled on camera, a top snapper says. Lensman Alison Silva tells celebrity private eye Paul Barresi: “Britney is in on it. [She] calls the paparazzi before she goes out. We know 15 minutes before she leaves the house. It’s all staged.” Silva adds that when four photographers were arrested last week for chasing the increasingly demented pop tart, “one of [them who] works for my company told me that Britney sent him a text message and said she was sorry. She tried to talk the cops into not arresting them . . . Money, fame, the excitement. It’s part of her life.” Barresi told Page Six that after reviewing footage of Spears with Adnan Ghalib, “[he] appeared to purposely position Britney in full view of fellow paparazzi to help them get the shot . . . It appeared that Britney is in on the sham.” Barresi says if anti-paparazzi laws are ever enacted, celebs in cahoots with them should be just as liable. Spears’ rep could not be reached.

[From Page Six]

Britney spent two hours at a deposition yesterday at K-Fed’s lawyers office and wasn’t dressed completely inappropriately, although she did leave early and forgot to wear a bra. She seems to be easily influenced and has ditched her paparazzo married boyfriend for her old friend Sam Lufti, who at least looks like he’s convincing her to show up to court and fight to see her children again. Britney is likely to have stopped hanging out with hangabout Adnan Ghalib after he went incommunicado over the weekend and refused to speak to her. She was seen looking cozy with another photographer in what struck me as blatant attempt to make Adnan jealous. Lufti also seems to have pressured her not to take Adnan back.

OK! Magazine reports that Britney ditched the deposition after 2 hours looking furious but has at least 4 hours more to go. They say that her remaining testimony will be split up over several sessions because “she simply can’t sit still.” Now do you think that attorney would make that provision for any other mother who held her child hostage and has repeatedly flouted court orders and refused to show up to custody hearings?

Britney is shown yesterday leaving her deposition, thanks to Splash News.