Britney Spears
Alleged Impostor Swindled Label
Swiped Unreleased Music
11/30/2017 2:35 PM PST
EXCLUSIVE
Someone crook pretended to be Britney Spears‘ manager and got her record label to send a bunch of yet-to-be-released music … TMZ has learned..
According to docs obtained by TMZ … the suspect impersonated Larry Rudolph, Brit’s longtime manager, and emailed RCA Records to ask for tracks that at the time were unreleased. The person went so far as to create [email protected] … which is not Larry’s actual email address.
Didn’t matter … RCA reps got duped and uploaded 49 digital files.
In all, law enforcement says the culprit nabbed 12 tracks intended for Britney’s album, “Glory,” which was released in August 2016 … shortly after this caper.
Law enforcement obtained search warrants in October 2016 and June 2017 to search AOL and Microsoft records for the suspect’s email account — and they now have a suspect. They say he’s an attorney who’s studying intellectual property law at UCLA. There goes the Dean’s List … allegedly.
The case is still under investigation. We spoke to the suspect, and his attorney, and they say the authorities have the wrong guy.
