From the alleged contents of her overcrowded medicine cabinet to her rumored plans to stay out of jail (hint: It apparently involves Facebook and watching Catherine Zeta-Jones sing and dance), click through for a rundown on the latest rumblings . With a little more than a week to go before Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to head to the pokey to serve (some of) her 90-day sentence for violating her probation, news continues to spill out like so many of her courtroom tears.
Lindsay may be enjoying a cocktail that her alcohol-monitoring anklet won’t detect. “When one doctor says no to refilling a prescription, she will go to the next,” says a source. Speaking of dependencies . TMZ maintains that she’s been doctor shopping, hitting up a half-dozen physicians in Los Angeles and New York to score medications. “It’s a whole process to get what she needed.” Lohan is believed to have prescriptions for the antidepressants Zoloft and Trazodone, the ever-popular ADHD eye-opener Adderall and the ultra-strong painkiller Dilaudid. She would supposedly “get a large supply” of whatever she needed during each visit.
This isn’t something she can stop overnight. I don’t think she’s gone a day without smoking in years. “The first thing she does when she wakes up is light a cigarette,” a spy tells TMZ. “I’m honestly scared for [Lindsay] . It’s a serious condition.” And her nicotine sucking (reportedly two-plus packs a day) has likely increased in recent days given her attorney woes . There’s a good chance Lindsay will be locked up in a smoke-free facility, which has pals worried due to her copious cancer stick habit.
There’s only so much tear-stained mascara a high-priced attorney can have smeared on her expensive suit before she throws up her hands and quits. “She has to stay on the case until Lindsay has a substitution of attorney filed with the court.” According to the insider, Holley was fed up with Lohan because “she won’t take or follow advice.” But has Lindsay already found new representation?. Holley gave LiLo the heave-ho after last week’s circus of a hearing, but the New York Post says Judge Marsha Revel, whose tough-love approach earned the onetime actress her prison stint, has ordered her to hang on a little longer. “The judge told Holley she can’t quit and leave Lindsay without representation,” says a snitch. But Lindsay’s lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, apparently isn’t making as clean a break as she’d prefer.
A Chicago lawyer with skin the shade of a Cheeto left too close to a leaking nuclear reactor and suits the cheery pale blue of a cornflower in summer says he’s offering his “help” to Lindsay. Goldberg jetted into Los Angeles late last week and promptly gave a head-scratching interview about his LiLo strategy. “Instead of making her reactive, like a pin cushion, [we're going] to be proactive,” he tells TMZ. The only thing that Lindsay did wrong was hire the wrong attorney and now she has fixed that.” Or maybe not . “We’re gonna go after them.” Adds a source to PopEater, “Lindsay has no intention of going to jail. Stuart V.
And the main legal objective at the moment seems to be delaying Lohan’s trip to the hoosegow . At least that’s what Goldberg’s inner circle is saying. According to TMZ, he expected to get paid, while the Lohan clan wanted him to take the case pro bono (perhaps with a case or three of Lindsay’s Sevin-Nyne self-tanner thrown in as an incentive). She’s now reportedly considering O.J. Camp Lindsay claims the yam-hued attorney was a little too out there (he purportedly has a license plate reading “Snake Charmer,” and the Chicago Sun-Times says he once flew to Italy to find George Clooney and hand-deliver a script he wrote). Goldberg met Lindsay, her mom, Dina, and her 16-going-on-45-year-old sister, Ali, for dinner on Friday night, but it appears his price wasn’t right. Simpson’s former lawyer Robert Shapiro.
She’s seen the movie ‘Chicago’ several times so it’s not like she doesn’t know how this sort of thing works!” Go on, say it with us: Oy. Because she’s not going to the clink without a fight. “If Lindsay needs to start a Facebook campaign or set up protests or something like that she is totally into it,” a mole tells PopEater. “They are treating Lindsay differently because she is a star so it’s about time she used her star power to help her. In related groan-inducing news .
And finally . Her idea of being sworn in is cursing at the judge,” tweeted the replacement part-packed comedian, an ostensible reference to LiLo’s “f— U” courtroom manicure. Other one-liners included, “Lindsay Lohan said she wouldn’t mind being under oath because she thought Oath was a Norwegian ski instructor,” and, “I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. Joan Rivers dusted off a few fossilized zingers late last week and fired them in Lindsay’s direction, a move that didn’t sit well with the starlet’s ex-girlfriend, Samantha Ronson. “Hey Joan Rivers,” she fumed. “You have collagen older than Lindsay, pick on someone your own age, oh wait I guess people that old can’t hear.” OK, so maybe Samantha shouldn’t quit her DJ job for a career in comedy, but Lindsay was moved by the defense, tweeting, “thank you
.” And on Sunday night, for the first time in many months, the onetime inamoratas stepped out for dinner together, hitting a Japanese joint in Beverly Hills. 80 Proof.” Lenny Bruce she ain’t, but it was still enough to get Ronson’s blood boiling. “Lindsay Lohan is so dumb.
Among the amenities offered once she’s photographed, fingerprinted and searched: a “stiff cotton” orange Los Angeles County Jail jumpsuit; a 12-by-8 cell with bunk beds, a toilet, sink and small table; and a six-inch window. and inmates are usually kept in their cells for 22 hours a day, with an hour for exercise and 20 minutes each per meal. The day begins at 5 a.m. An L.A. sheriff’s spokesman says it’s a good bet that Lohan will be separated from the rest of the general population “for her protection as well as the jail staff.”. People magazine has helpfully laid out exactly what Lindsay can expect in jail (she’s likely to do her time at Lynnwood, the same place Paris Hilton was incarcerated for 23 days).
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