The girlfriend of Bollywood dance instructer Sandip Soparrkar claims that Britney Spears’s management team planted a bogus rumor that the singing star has been hooking up with the “Womanizer” music video choreographer in a desperate bid to drum up publicity for Britney’s latest album, Circus.

“It was Britney and her management who keep hassling Sandip to get his pictures taken with her and her dad Jamie. And one of her team even borrowed Sandip’s laptop and sent out emails from Sandip’s address saying that he was on a romantic break with her. Britney did come over to India and she and Sandip went away for a few days, but it was purely professional. They were busy rehearsing. I really do wish she’d just leave us alone now.”