Sam Lutfi on helping Amanda Bynes: ‘It’s never been about me’

AP Television/ASSOCIATED PRESS Sam Lutfi says that he worked with Amanda Bynes’ family to win over her to restore to Los Angeles in order to get her positioned under a psychiatric hold.

Sam Lutfi is out to clear his name in the wake of Amanda Bynes’ recent troubles.

The former administrator of…

Amanda Bynes — Involuntary Confinement Likely For Up to 1 Year

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Amanda Bynes is headed for another conservatorship, but we’re told it almost certainly will not be at the hands of her parents. Rather, we’ve learned Amanda’s doctors are plotting to get the type of conservatorship that can keep her confined and medicated for up to 1 year.

Sources familiar with Amanda’s treatment tell TMZ … the plot is to get an LPS Hold —…

Amanda Bynes — I Hate My Parents For Deceiving Me

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Amanda Bynes is filled with rage as she sits in a Pasadena mental facility … after her parents made an elaborate ruse to get her committed.

TMZ broke the report … Amanda’s parents worked with Sam Lutfi to lure her from NYC to LA Friday. Lutfi persuaded her to take a car service to what she believed was a Pasadena law office, where she…

Amanda Bynes – Ruse for Psych Hold Created By Britney Spears ‘Bad Guy’

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The person who tricked Amanda Bynes into fleeting to L.A. where she finished up in a mental ward is none other than the man who some say made life-threatening peril for a then-unstable Britney Spears.

TMZ has learned … Sam Lutfi — who Britney’s parents say was recklessly medicating her before she was eventually strapped to a stretcher and taken to a psych ward…

Amanda Bynes — Shoplifting Video … Ellen’s Got Nothing on Me (VIDEO)

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Amanda Bynes danced furiously in a New York clothing store before trying to pilfer a shirt … and TMZ has the video.

If it were anyone else, it would be both fun and amusing … but in Amanda’s case it’s desperate. You see her inside Pookie & Sebastian browsing the racks before busting into some wild dance moves.

Amanda’s strongly built driver…

Amanda Bynes Is Engaged, Michael C. Hall Takes on Hedwig + More in Today’s Last Lap

Stacy Lambe | October 6, 2014 6:00 pm

Amanda Bynes is engaged, get your first look at Michael C. Hall as Hedwig, the cast of Sex and the City tweet about the possibility of a new movie, and Saturday Night Live was accused of stealing a sketch. All that and more in today’s Last Lap.

Amanda Bynes says she’s engaged to…

Amanda Bynes touches down in New York days after DUI arrest

Splash News Amanda Bynes blemished at Gladstone’s Restaurant in Los Angeles ahead of her flight to New  York.

Amanda Bynes is in the Huge Apple.

The 28-year-ancient troubled star was blemished in LAX airport ahead of her flight to New York…

Amanda Bynes — Kicked Out of Fashion School for Weed, Bizarre Conduct

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Amanda Bynes was out of control at her fashion school … showing up high and offering fellow students money to do her homework … and we’re told it got so terrible she was kicked out.

Several classmates at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Irvine say Amanda has shown big signs of distress for a while ……

Amanda Bynes — Friends Waiting for Something Really Bad To Happen

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Amanda Bynes can’t get the help she needs in anticipation of something really terrible happens … because her parents will not re-establish a conservatorship … TMZ has learned.

Multiple sources connected with the family tell TMZ … Amanda’s parents do NOT think she has a mental illness.  As one source put it, “They think she’s a bratty kid who thumbs her nose at them and smokes…

Amanda Bynes Arrested On DUI Charge

Rahsheeda Ali | September 29, 2014 4:15 pm

Former child star Amanda Bynes has been lying low for months, seemingly getting her life together after erratic behavior made her infamous last year. But now, she’s veered away from stability with a DUI arrest over the weekend.

According to TMZ, the troubled actress caused suspicion when she stopped her Mercedes SUV in…