Britney Spears is under investigation after allegedly striking an employee at her home in Southern California, as the Associated Press reports. Spears’ housekeeper filed a misdemeanor battery complaint with the Sheriff’s Office, saying that the singer hit her in a fight over a cellphone on Monday. There were no injuries in the apparent altercation.

Spears’ lawyer Mathew Rosengart released a statement calling the incident “overblown sensational tabloid fodder — nothing more than a manufactured ‘he said she said’ regarding a cell phone.” He continued, per Variety: “Anyone can make an accusation but this should have been closed immediately. To its credit, the Sheriff’s office itself has acknowledged that the incident was classified as a ‘very minor misdemeanor…’ and confirmed ‘there were no injuries.’ If this did not involve Britney Spears it never would have been reported at all.”

Rosengart was approved to represent Spears in her conservatorship case last month following the resignation of her previous lawyer. Last week, it was reported that the singer’s father Jamie Spears had agreed to step down as her conservator.

UPDATE: TMZ has provided some new context for the incident. Britney Spears’ dogs were taken away from her earlier this month. Suspecting that her father Jamie had something to do with it, she confronted the housekeeper, who is paid by Jamie, demanding to know where the dogs were. The housekeeper expressed concern that the dogs had been neglected and weren’t safe at Britney’s home, showing her cellphone photos she had taken of one of the dogs after throwing up. Britney became upset and told the housekeeper she wasn’t allowed to take photos in her house, and a struggle ensued. Britney says she just knocked the phone out of the housekeepers hands, but the housekeeper is claiming that Britney struck her in the arm.