In an excerpt from his buzzy new book, Jeff Weiss recalls a mid-2000s golden age when the tabloids tracked the starlets’ ...

In “Waiting for Britney Spears,” Jeff Weiss looks back at the forces surrounding the pop star’s rise and fall.

In 'Waiting for Britney Spears,' Jeff Weiss writes about becoming an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down ...

His way in was that Britney Spears ’s video for her 1998 smash “Baby One More Time” had been filmed at his high school, an event Weiss describes as “a cluster bomb filled with candy.” What makes ...

Journalist Jeff Weiss’ new book is as much about the pop princess as it is his own complicity in early-2000s celebrity culture: “I look back with contempt and disgust and wonder” Weiss says ...

Jeff Weiss’s Waiting For Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly is a pop-star biography the way Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a journalistic account of a trip to an auto race and a district ...

The 'Culture Creep,' 'Girl on Girl,' and 'Waiting for Britney Spears' writers discuss their new books and why we can't let Y2K go.

(Vinnie Zuffante / Getty Images) In his new book, "Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly" — a mix of fact and fiction — music writer and L.A. native Jeff Weiss brings us back to ...