The Ugliest Golddigger: Britney Spears' former manager now "helping" Amanda Bynes

10/14/2014

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LOS ANGELES –  She had the successful Hollywood career most actors only dream about. But over the weekend, for the second time, former child star Amanda Bynes has been put in a psychiatric hospital.

According to TMZ, Bynes, 28, was lured back to Los Angeles last week from New York City by none other than former Britney Spears confidante Sam Lufti, who “managed” the pop star throughout her public fall of 2008, but was later accused by Spears’ parents of negligently medicating her.

Lufti reportedly convinced Bynes to return to the West Coast so she could sue her parents. But rather than taking her to a lawyer’s office, Lufti took Bynes to a medical facility in Pasadena where she was placed on a 72-hour psych hold. The 5150 hold can be extended for 14 days if deemed necessary, and while her parents have not publicly announced plans to get another conservatorship over their daughter, it is being widely reported they will do so while she is under psychiatric care.

Lufti said on Twitter that Bynes was "in good hands":

Bynes had tweeted just an hour earlier:

Courtney Love even chimed in:

A hearing on Bynes is expected to take place this week. Last year, she was taken in for mental evaluation after a string of bizarre incidents, climaxing with a small fire she set in the driveway of a stranger’s home.

The urgency for professional intervention increased substantially on Friday after the actress tweeted to her 3.4 million followers that her father sexually abused her as a child. She later deleted the tweet, and wrote:  “My dad never did any of those things. The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he’s the one that ordered them to microchip me.”

Lynn Bynes shot down the abuse claims in a statement, noting that she was “heartbroken” for her husband of 47 years.

Upon arrival at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, where she was swarmed by paparazzi, Bynes told photographers that she wanted to be “like Marilyn Monroe” and that she couldn’t wait for her father to be “dead in his grave.” 

Earlier in the week, the troubled entertainer was filmed gyrating on a bodyguard at a New York boutique and an hour later was issued with a “do not trespass” order at Barney’s after allegedly attempting to leave wearing a $200 hat she had not purchased.

Bynes’s hospitalization comes at the end of increasingly erratic and disturbing behavior. The former star turned fashion guru hopeful was arrested for a DUI on September 28, in which reports then emerged that she had been booted from classes at fashion design school FIDM.

Bynes’s troubles appear to have begun around four years ago when she “quit” acting and posed for Maxim in an attempt to shed her wholesome, tween idol image. She rose to international stardom at the age of ten, soon even garnering her very own primetime Nickelodeon program “The Amanda Show.” Bynes later transitioned into movies, making her mark in hits like “Hairspray” and “She’s the Man.” She appeared to stay out of the Hollywood party scene, and told FOX411 in 2008 that she preferred “quiet time.”

Experts say that the trappings of fame and fortune aren’t necessarily the cause of severe mental illness, but they can be a catalyst.

“I have seen firsthand how the pressure of fame and stardom can trigger vulnerable kids to develop both bad behavior and mental illness,” said L.A.-based addiction specialist, Dr. Damon Raskin, who does not treat Bynes. “It is the stress for those with poor coping skills that can then lead to acting out. For those with the right genetics, this can trigger illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia.”

Last year, Bynes was arrested for tossing drug paraphernalia from her Manhattan apartment, was seen at gyms in West Hollywood talking to herself and wearing sunglasses to workout. She shaved her head and tweeted incessantly about her body and weight.

Yet even after the first psychiatric hold and rehab, Bynes’s attorney and parents denied reports that she was suffering with schizophrenia, her mother declaring earlier this year that her daughter “has no mental illness whatsoever.”

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