On Videotape: Spears Hits Parked Car, Then Goes Shopping
Posted August 10, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Oops, she dinged it again. Paparazzi took pictures and video of Britney Spears (with a puppy on her lap) attempting to park her black convertible in a Studio City parking lot when she hit an adjacent car. The former pop princess then got out to survey the damage of her vehicle only before heading off to indulge in some retail therapy.
But the tale of the tape made it clear to the owner of the parked car just who it was who scraped up her silver Mercedes-Benz. Kim Robard-Rifkin, 59, told a celebrity entertainment website on Wednesday that nobody from Spears’ camp had contacted her about the damaged car.
“It’s sad because I was really hoping she’d step up and be a human being,” Robard-Rifkin said. “It was simply like my car didn’t matter to her, my inconvenience didn’t matter to her.”
Rifkin, a registered nurse, said she was “sort of amused and sort of shocked” when she learned it was Spears who hit her car, and figured she would hear from the embattled entertainer.
“There were obviously a lot of paparazzi there and what kind of person wouldn’t realize that this (would) be on TV and she had to be responsible and contact me,” she said. “I’m not asking for money. I’m not asking for a new car. I simply want my car fixed, the same as I would fix somebody’s car if I had done that.”
Britney Spears arrives to a party for the 2006 Grammy Nominees with Kanye West, hosted By Verizon Wireless and Rolling Stone Magazine at the Avalon Hollywood, on February 6, 2006. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images for Rolling Stone)
