LOS ANGELES, Oct 8 (AFP) - Pop diva Britney Spears has made her marriage to dancer Kevin Federline official nearly three weeks after they secretly wed, stifling claims that they faked their wedding, aides said Friday.
The couple filed their marriage licence with Los Angeles authorities Thursday, formalizing the union that one report had claimed was faked amid a row over the financial terms of the marriage.
The blond bombshell's spokeswoman Leslie Sloane said the document had been filed well within the official 90-day limit, making the celebrity marriage final.
"They are legally married, the paperwork was filed yesterday (Thursday)," Sloane said.
People magazine said the multi-millionaire singer and her far less rich back-up dancer beau formalized their union after signing their prenuptial that is aimed at protecting the assets of the wealthier spouse.
The couple, who began dating in April, married at a surpise ceremony at a friend's Los Angeles home on September 18. But Us magazine later said Spears, 22, and Federline, 26, had staged a "faux wedding."
It claimed they delayed formalizing their marriage because their lawyers were still wrangling over how much cash Federline would be entitled to if the marriage collapsed.
The magazine said it had obtained a draft of a prenuptial contract stating that if the couple split, Federline would only be entitled to 300,000 dollars a year for exactly half the term of the marriage, instead of 50 percent of Spears' total wealth.
Under the draft contract, Spears, who is reportedly worth anywhere from 32 to 100 million dollars, would also not be financially responsible for Federline's two young children by another woman.
But the singer, famed for such hits as "Oops, I did it again" and for her 55-hour Las Vegas marriage to a childhood friend in January, rebuked media claims she had not tied the knot.
"I'm really upset that somebody someplace decides to write a false headline about a special day that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl," she told People, which reportedly agreed to pay two million dollars to the couple for rights to the pictures of their wedding
But even as Spears gained a husband, she lost a manager, parting ways with Larry Rudolph who has represented her since was just 13 years old.
Spears' camp said the split was made by mutual agreement after the contract for their nine-year-old management relationship expired.
"Britney and I simply realized that we have done all we can do together," Rudolph said in a statement.