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“These claims are entirely false, as well as highly offensive, damaging and unacceptable,” Charles Harder, Esq. said on behalf of Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group and its founder and CEO

Britney Spears has accused Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group’s Lou Taylor and Robin Greenhill of attempting to kill her as she threatened to “sue the shit out of” the company. In a since-deleted post on Wednesday, the pop singer detailed a visit she claims she made to the management company’s office a week before she was placed on involuntary detention in 2008.

“They sucked up to me and ‘made me feel special’ … RIGHT …. Ha those same bitches killed me a week later !!!!” Spears wrote. “My dad worshipped those two women and would have done anything they asked of him !!!! I think they were trying to kill me … I still to this very day believe that’s EXACTLY what they were trying to do … but not a damn thing was wrong with me and I didn’t die !!!!”

Spears, who was released from her conservatorship last November, added, “Nobody else would have lived through what they did to me

10cc drummer Paul Burgess has announced that he is leaving the band because the demands of touring have become too much for him.

The 75-year-old musician, who also spent time performing with Jethro Tull, Camel, Magna Carta, and The Icicle Works, has chosen to walk away from the legendary rock group after more than five decades.

He shared: “After so many wonderful years with 10cc, I must admit that the rigours of touring are no longer manageable for me as I get older, and I feel it’s time to let go of the long hours in airports and endless travel on buses.

“I’m not planning to stop playing altogether. I will still perform but at a pace that feels right, working alongside old friends and a new group of fellow musicians called The Guilty Men.”

Frontman Graham Gouldman confessed that it will feel unusual to perform without his “longest-running musical associate.”

He explained: “When Paul and I first joined forces in 10cc, we never could have imagined that we’d still be at it after 30 years, let alone 52.

“Paul has been my longest musical partner and it will feel different to turn around and see another drummer, but I completely understand why he no longer wants to sit on a plane for 14 hours or wake up in a new hotel every day for weeks at a time.”

Ben Stone, who has previously played with Mike and The Mechanics and Bonnie Tyler, will be taking over on drums.

Paul, who had several runs with 10cc after joining in 1973, performed his final show with the I’m Not In Love band in Alexandria, Virginia this past September.

The group is set to continue their And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour in the UK next year.

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