Inside Britney Spears’ wild historical past of operating off with taken males

Britney Spears is currently making headlines for her new romance with felon and father-of-nine Paul Soliz. 

According to Soliz’s ex-partner Nicole Mancilla – who is also a mother to five of his children – the handyman cheated on her with the pop star. 

The 42-year-old has quite the history of flings with married and taken men, most notably with her second husband Kevin Federline.

When she met Federline back in 2004, he already had a pregnant fiancée at home, as well as a two-year-old daughter.

The pair hooked up the first night they met and were married within three months. 

Britney denied knowing that Kevin was engaged with a newborn baby in her memoir The Woman in Me. 

She wrote: ‘I was living in a bubble and I didn’t have a lot of good, close friends to confide in and get advice from. I had no idea until after we’d been together for a while and someone told me, “You know he has a new baby, right?”‘

However, Fedlerine’s ex Shar Jackson claims otherwise, telling Dailymail.com last October that not only was Britney aware of their relationship, she also waited outside the Orange County hospital as Shar gave birth to her second child with Kevin. 

‘I felt betrayed and crushed. I thought, ”How could you do something like that?” she said. 

Federline ended up personally apologizing to Jackson for his part in the affair in 2010, when they both appeared on Celebrity Fit Club together. 

‘I know I’ve caused you a lot of pain. I’ve been really selfish. I guess I got so wrapped up in all this other s*** that I never really got a chance to sit back and apologize to you,’ he said. 

Surprisingly, the Popozão rapper wasn’t the first unavailable dancer that caught Britney’s eye.

One year before she met K-Fed, Britney enjoyed a brief but steamy fling with her choreographer Columbus Short in 2003. 

Short was married to wife Brandi at the time, but that didn’t stop him from spending a wild night of partying with the Toxic singer. 

‘It’s true I slept with Britney, [but] we never had sex because another person was in the room at the time,’ he told Star magazine at the time.

‘We shared a bed and were really close, kissing and hugging. The chemistry was magical… our feelings were so strong.’

Short also claimed that his kiss with Britney contributed to the end of his marriage.

‘It would be fair to say Britney caused major problems in our marriage. Sadly, we’re now getting divorced,’ he said.

He changed his story in his 2020 autobiography Short Stories, where he said that he’d already separated from wife Brandi when he kissed Britney, but admitted that he was dating another dancer at the time. 

‘She was on me like white on rice, and would not leave me alone the entire night. Britney had her eyes on the prize and wasn’t about to stop until she got what she wanted,’ he wrote. 

He also claimed that he was in fact ‘intimate’ with Spears during a video shoot in Rome, but he rebuffed her advances after that.

Things finally came to an end during an awkward game of truth or dare one night, where Spears said she wanted to marry Short – while Short said he wanted to marry his girlfriend at the time. 

The next married man that caught Britney’s eye was paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, whom she dated between 2007 and 2008. 

When he met Britney, the British-born photographer had been married to wife AzLynn Berry for five years.

Speaking about Spears destroying her marriage, Berry told Us Weekly in January, ‘I’m so f**king grateful that, for whatever reason, this unbelievable person walked into my husband’s life and removed him from mine.’

The relationship between Spears and Ghalib began in late 2007 when Spears was divorcing Federline – Ghalib was snapping photos of the singer when she jumped into his car in an attempt to evade other photographers.

Ghalib began working with Spears but insisted to his then-wife they were merely friends.

At the time of the affair, Berry insists their marriage was at a ‘high point’ and says ‘it was the closest we had ever been’, adding they were ‘definitely still married’ when the relationship began.

Berry claims Ghalib informed her he was attempting to help Britney in a role that mirrored a personal assistant.

‘Britney was aware of the incoming conservatorship,’ Berry said. ‘He told me a lot of intimate details [about her] … even mental health stuff.’

It wasn’t until January 2008 that Berry learned the truth behind their relationship.

The alleged affair had been going on for around three months when a photo of them kissing in a parking lot in Santa Barbara was published. 

‘I’m pretty sure I called him, yelling and screaming. I probably texted him 50 times and waited for him to come back,’ she recalled of confronting him. She added the discovery was ‘extremely traumatic.’

Once the extramarital relationship came to light, Berry filed for legal separation from Ghalib on January 18, 2008 before he filed for divorce in June of that same year. 

‘[Britney’s] presence was the catalyst that was strong enough to end the marriage, and I’m actually very, very grateful. I know for a fact that I would’ve killed myself if I stayed in a toxic relationship,’ Berry said.  

Spears addressed the alleged affair in her memoir, The Woman In Me, insisting she was unaware Ghalib was married when they were together.

Without naming Ghalib directly in her memoir, she wrote: ‘I didn’t know then that the photographer was married; I had no clue that I was essentially his mistress. I only found that out after we’d broken up.’

Ghalib also said that he and Berry had been separated for three years before he ever got involved with Britney.  

‘My wife and I were not divorced, but we had been separated for three years,’ he told The Sun last year.

‘I didn’t live with her for that time, I was 100 percent single.’

Long before being painted as the other woman in a string of relationships, Spears was in a happy long-term relationship with her teenage sweetheart Justin Timberlake.

The demise of their four-year romance has been the subject of much discussion, with both parties accusing the other of being unfaithful.

Timberlake famously penned a song about Britney’s infidelity, 2002’s Cry Me a River. 

In her memoir The Woman In Me, Britney claimed that the *NSYNC hitmaker had been unfaithful to her with multiple women for many years, and that she retaliated by kissing her choreographer Wade Robson one night while they were out dancing. 

She then claimed that she confessed everything about the kiss to Timberlake and that they ‘moved past it’ – only for him to paint her as a cheater in the press as part of a calculated plot to launch his solo career.

While she presented herself as a victim in her memoir, other sources have called Britney’s version of events into question. 

According to a source who spoke to Page Six, Timberlake actually discovered a lengthy breakup letter that Spears had sent to Robson, which confirmed that they’d carried on a torrid affair for months. 

Spears also failed to mention in her memoir that Robson was one of Timberlake’s close friends and collaborators at the time.

This version was backed up by Britney’s Everytime co-writer Annet Artani, who told TMZ that she knew about the 14-page letter and suspected that Britney did a lot more than just kiss the choreographer one night. 

Britney’s former backup dancer Dan Karaty also said that the singer was having a long affair with Robson – and that Timberlake was in tears when he found out about it.

Discussing the affair on Dutch talk show Humberto, Karaty also said that she’d misrepresented the situation in her memoir.

‘That’s what worries me about the book … when you write stuff like that, there’s too many people that know those things aren’t true,’ he said. 

There were also rumors that Britney cheated on her last husband Sam Asghari – allegations that she strongly denies. 

In 2023, both Page Six and In Touch reported that Britney had been unfaithful, citing anonymous sources.

However, another source told In Touch that Britney believes Sam leaked the cheating rumors himself to give himself an advantage during their divorce proceedings. 

A source also told Entertainment Tonight that Britney ‘didn’t cheat’ on Asghari. 

Britney is now dating tattooed handyman Paul Soliz, who has nine children and a criminal record.

Soliz’s ex Nicole Mancilla – who is the mother of five of his nine children – called him a ‘deadbeat dad’ in an interview with Dailymail.com and claimed that he cheated on her with Spears. 

She also alleged that Soliz had failed to pay child support for any of his nine children.

Soliz was connected to Spears when he worked as her cleaner and handyman, though the two later allegedly struck up a romantic connection.

Nicole told DailyMail.com that he had cheated on her with the pop star, and she claimed that even though he allegedly hasn’t paid child support for his nine children, he still tries to see her occasionally at her mother’s home in Sylmar.

‘Just let them know that my husband fell in Britney Spears’ p****. He was married, and now he denies his children,’ Mancilla said. ‘He neglects his children for her.’