Britney Spears spent a brief Mexican holiday with her paparazzi friend, checking into a hotel in Rosarito Beach and buying a knockoff Gucci purse, according to a local press report.

Spears, 26, wore her pink wig as she and photographer Adnan Ghalib, 35, arrived in a black SUV at the Rosarito Beach Hotel, just south of the Border, at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Ensenada, Mex., newspaper, Frontera.

Ghalib’s own photo agency, Finalpixx, has been photographing the pair’s Mexican activities – one picture shows Ghalib hand-feeding whipped cream from a Starbucks cup to the pink-wigged Spears – and posting online updates.

“Britney Spears and Adnan Ghalib are happily dating,” the agency says in a post. (The agency notes that Ghalib “is married but has been separated from his wife for over a year.”)

The pair have been together for much of the last week.

“After being released from the hospital Britney and Adnan spent the night and the following days together resting, eating, sleeping, shopping and talking about life and the love they have for their families,” Finalpixx says, adding that Ghalib, himself, has not spoken publicly because it would “not be of benefit to her for him to do so.”

“Should he choose to speak about Britney,” Finalpixx continues, “he only has positive things to say about her and the time that they have spent together.”

As for the other paparazzi chasing after them, “Despite such heavy scrutiny, the pair are enjoying a healthy, normal relationship,” Finalpixx says.

While at the Rosarito Beach Hotel, Spears stopped in a gift shop and purchased an imitation Gucci bag and another bag while Ghalib bought a rosary, spending a total of $60, Frontera reports.

“She looked serious and haggard,” a sales clerk told the paper in Spanish. “She didn’t have makeup on.”

The pop star has been in continuous motion since she lost child-visitation rights and was released from the hospital from a mental-health hold after a police standoff.

Spears went to Palm Desert with Ghalib and cruised around at night in her car, only to get a flat tire and have the car impounded.

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The woman being chased by Lindsay Lohan before the star’s notorious DUI arrest last July wants her day in court.

According to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in late December and obtained by the Associated Press, Tracie Rice was in a vehicle pursued by Lohan and driven by Michele Peck, the mother of Lohan’s recently resigned assistant.

Rice is seeking damages amid claims that because of the pre-dawn incident she has had to shell out $7,000 in medical expenses, including those to a $175-per-visit therapist. She also says she lost her $60,000-per-year job.

In her papers, Rice says that $3,500 has been spent with the therapist in dealing with her residual terror. She also saw a physician, a chiropractor and a pharmacist – and paid roughly $150 for prescriptions. An additional $2,000 was said to be paid in miscellaneous expenses.

Rice states she thought she was being carjacked when an SUV, driven by Lohan, pursued her and Peck at high speed, putting the two of them “at extreme risk of death or injury,” until they made it to the Santa Monica police station and were greeted by officers with guns drawn.

In August, Rice filed suit against Lohan for emotional distress. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and payment of medical and other expenses related to emotional distress.

Lohan’s rep had no comment.

Lohan is working on her sobriety, her lawyer has said, but was recently seen slipping. After spending two months in a Utah rehab in 2007, Lohan was videotaped drinking from a champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve in Italy.

After a plea deal, Lohan spent a mere 84 minutes in jail last November for both DUI charges.

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