Britney Spears was reported to be unloading her six-bedroom, six-bathroom Studio City, California home for £3.4m, according to The Los Angeles Times in September 2008. The pad, which came complete with a pool, spa, arbor and three garages, was being offered for sale partially furnished and decorated. Britney had to flee the home twice last year to be hospitalised at the UCLA Medical Center.

Her father Jamie, confirmed that the star was “looking for a fresh start,” and in March last year a court granted him the power to “sell or dispose of” an undisclosed number of her seven cars after he was placed in legal control of his daughter’s affairs.