With a net worth of $60 million (£43m) – a sum that Forbes.com called "shockingly low" compared to her contemporaries, Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Simpson – the notoriously private star has worked her way through an incredible roster of real estate over the years, including a paparazzi-proof mansion in Beverly Hills and a stylish New York penthouse. But Britney wasn't born into such a palatial property. Starting from her modest childhood home in Kentwood, we look back through Britney's road to fame and peek inside the properties she's stayed in along the way.

Is Britney winning the fight for control of her houses and assets?