Britney Spears’ former friend Sam Lutfi continues to be portrayed as the Devil Reincarnated as a new Maxim Magazine article fingers the shifty-eyed music manager as a paparazzi tipster. A Maxim Magazine expose, penned by reporter Michael Joseph Gross, accuses Sam of tipping off the paps about Britney’s whereabouts at all times.

According to Maxim:

“The media frenzy (surrounding Spears) was significantly aided and abetted and intensified after Sam Lutfi came on the scene. “There’s one paparazzi agency that’s emerged as having the inside track on Britney all the time – they’re the ones who know where she is, where she’s going… It’s called X17. “One of the owners of X17 told me that last year she began getting messages from lots of people with funny names; we know that Sam, in the past, has used a lot of pseudonyms. “After that she said one day out of the blue, Sam Lutfi called and introduced himself by name, then he started calling more and more often. “By the time I was with the paparazzi, they were sitting there getting text messages from him at regular intervals telling them where she was, where she was gonna go.”