The latest man who’s been swept up in the chaos that seems to regularly surround Britney Spears’ is Paul Soliz Jr., her 37-year-old handyman and possible lover.

But a new report shows that Soliz, identified as a participant in Spears’ reported meltdown at the Chateau Marmont last week, has been dealing with plenty of personal chaos of his own.

According to the Daily Mail and other outlets, Soliz is on probation for a felony firearms possession conviction. He also has angry wife and a self-described “handful” of children — as many as 10, his mother-in-law has said. His wife, Nicole Mancilla, told the Daily Mail he cheated on her with Spears and has failed to pay child support for at least five of his children.

Mancilla also complained that Soliz still tries to visit her at her mother’s home in Sylmar, a suburb north of Los Angeles.

“He’s the EBT Nick Cannon,” Mancilla told the Daily Mail, referring to Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, which allow people to access government-provided food benefits. Cannon, meanwhile, is the TV host who has 12 children with multiple women.

Mancilla told the Daily Mail that Soliz has been living with Spears, but keeps his official residence at a bungalow a few blocks away from her home. Mancilla and her five children live with her mother, 60-year-old surgical assistant Sandra Smith, in Smith’s three-bed Sylmar townhouse.

“He has 10 kids. He doesn’t support any of them,” Smith told the Daily Mail. “They have a 1-year-old together and he doesn’t even pay attention to that one either.”

“He’s a deadbeat dad,” Smith continued. “I wouldn’t let him see the kids if it was me. She does, because she wants them to have a dad. But I wouldn’t want a dad like that.”

Soliz’s personal life is under scrutiny because he was with Spears last week at the Chateau Marmont, where a woman matching Spears’ description created a disturbance by harassing and threatening hotel employees and guests, according to TMZ.

Soliz and Spears then moved to a suite in the famed hotel where they got into a “big fight,” during which Spears was screaming and “out of control,” leaving guests alarmed that she was having a mental breakdown, TMZ also said. First responders were called, but Spears was photographed, wrapped in a blanket, leaving the hotel on her own.

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