Lindsay Lohan Refuses to Go to Rehab After Arrested in Nightclub Catfight

Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been urged to check into rehab following her arrest after she got into a physical altercation with another female in a NYC club. TMZ reports that her friends believe going to rehab might help her win her favor with the judge. 

LiLo was recently hit with charges on two different cases. In New York, the Elizabeth Taylor of "Liz & Dick" was charged on third degree misdemeanor assault and is expected to appear in court face formal charges at a January 7 arraignment.

She was taken into custody a few days ago for the alleged offense. She was released from jail after being bailed out by her assistant Gavin Doyle. "@lindsaylohan after bailing you out last night I HOPE and PRAY you get the help you so desperately need," he tweeted. "We are ALL rooting for you."

As if facing an assault charge is not enough, LiLo was slapped with misdemeanors for resisting, obstructing, or delaying an officer in the course of their duties by giving false information to an officer who investigated a car accident involving her last summer. She's also cited for reckless driving.

Rumor has it, LiLo has been stressed out by her impending court dates and turns to alcohol to distract her worried mind. The "Herbie: Fully Loaded" actress is in danger of violating her probation stemming from a jewelry theft case involving her. 

While her friends think seeking help for her drinking problem will help her avoid jail, LiLo reportedly has her own strategy to win her case against the alleged victim of her punch, Tiffany Mitchell. The star allegedly has hired a private investigator to look into the Psychic's life and dig up her dirt.

Lady GaGa Praises Lindsay Lohan's 'Liz and Dick' Performance Amidst Negative Reviews

Lindsay Lohan has gotten support from Lady GaGa after "Liz & Dick" earned negative reviews. While many critics slammed the Elizabeth Taylor telepic, the outlandish singer praised the actress' performance in the TV movie. 

"@lindsaylohan you did a beautiful job on Liz & Dick," so the "You and I" singer tweeted on Monday, November 26. "Let no one bring u down, Liz didnt, they always try to knock the greats down a few pegs."

Lohan took to her own Twitter page to thank GaGa for her supportive words, writing, "@ladygaga thank you so much! You are such an incredible force and that means the world to me :) love & hugs xo hope to see you soon bella."

Chronicling the enduring love of movie icons Elizabeth Taylor (Lohan) and Richard Burton (Grant Bowler), "Liz & Dick" received generally negative reviews from contemporary film critics. Some celebrities also weighed in on the biopic. 

"Lindsay Lohan had a better British accent in the parent trap and that is not a joke," model Chrissy Teigen tweeted. Singer Josh Groban commented, "OMG during half time I switched to 5 minutes of #LizAndDick and it's so awkwardly made, I feel embarrassed in my no-no place."

The TV movie posted an average of 3.5 million viewers and 1.3 million adults in the 18-49 demographic when it premiered Sunday, November 25. Though it's the fourth biggest audience for a movie airing on the channel, the ratings were lower than expected given the amount of press coverage the film received.

Lindsay Lohan Compares Herself to Elizabeth Taylor: 'I've Never Been Drunk on Set, Ever'

Lindsay Lohan revealed what made her feel confident to portray Elizabeth Taylor despite what critics said about her troubled personal life. Just in time for the release of "Liz & Dick" on Lifetime Sunday, November 25, Lindsay took time to share about her dramatic life experiences that related her to the late screen legend. 

"Everything I've gone through made me ready to play Liz," so the 26-year-old actress told Us Weekly, referring to her incessant personal drama and legal troubles in the past few years. Admitting all her past troubles made her better as a person and an actress, the New York native insisted that at some points, she's more professional that Elizabeth Taylor herself.

"Elizabeth was drunk on sets. I've never been drunk on set, ever," the actress who will next appear in sexual thriller "The Canyons" claimed. She went on stating, "I did my time and I respect the law."

Still, LiLo thought that she and Liz shared a lot of things in common, including their journey from a child star to a tabloid favorite as they grew up. "Since I was a kid, I've loved being on camera," LiLo recalled. "Don't misconstrue that: I didn't strive to have flashbulbs at dinner or people who don't know me calling TMZ. And 99 percent of the time, it's not true."

On always being the center of the spotlight, the "Freaky Friday" star confessed that it was really frustrating. "I feel bullied," she opened up. "I can't think of any actor who has been subjected to such extreme publicity who hasn't, like, committed suicide."

LiLo shared that she's now working to change her image by learning from Liz. "She probably would have said, 'Figure it the hell out'," said the starlet of what the film legend might have advised her. "You have to learn it for yourself sometimes." 

Premiered on Lifetime at 9 P.M. this Sunday, "Liz & Dick" is based on the true story of the couple's passionate and tumultuous love affair. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty and their fiery romance - often called "the marriage of the century" - was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day.

Lindsay Lohan Has No Regret for Troubles She Has Gone Through

Lindsay Lohan has no regrets for all the legal troubles and drama in her life. In an interview with US Weekly's reporter Jennifer Peros for the magazine's newest issue, she opened up, "I [regret] nothing, because then I wouldn't have been able to cry in scenes at the drop of a hat." 

"I have it tattooed: LIVE WITHOUT REGRETS. I'm not saying I wanted to go to a jail cell, but I've drawn all of it," she added. The "Ugly Betty" beauty went on sharing, "I want to be known as an actress, not a troublet starlet. People can think what they want, and the only thing I can do is prove them wrong."

The 26-year-old actress definitely has had tough days in her life. She has faced legal problems many times which led to her being taken into custody for six times. She has also entered rehabilitation facilities five times for drugs and alcohol abuse.

Additionally, LiLo has been involved in family disputes many times, some of them needed police's help to clear up the situation and resolve the problems. Furthermore, she has gone through ups and downs in her career.

The actress recently settled a limo lawsuit concerning her debt to the company for around $90,585,79 weeks ago. She has also just learned that her father Michael Lohan has a 17-year-old daughter, Ashley Horn, with Kristi Horn, a woman he dated when he was estranged from former wife Dina Lohan in 1995.

Moreover, her probation stemming from a jewelry theft is threatened to be revoked since she's accused of lying to police about a car accident on a coastal highway near Los Angeles last summer. 

Putting her troubles aside, she attended "Liz & Dick" premiere at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Tuesday, November 20. She bared some skin in an elegant slinky ivory dress and arranged her hair into a wavy do.

Lindsay Lohan's Probation in Shoplifting Case to Be Revoked for Allegedly Lying to Cops

Lindsay Lohan faces another legal trouble for being suspected of feeding police with a lie following an accident during which she hit an 18 wheeler on a coastal highway near Los Angeles last summer. The judge reportedly will revoke her probation in the jewelry theft as soon as criminal charges against her are filed by the attorney. 

LiLo initially told the cops the accident happened because she was cut off by a semi-truck and when she tried to stop her rented Porche, the brakes didn't work. She later contradicted her own statement by claiming that she didn't sit behind the wheel. A male, who was in the car with her, allegedly testified to the officers that she's indeed the driver.

In addition to triggering a probation violation in the shoplifting case, the "Liz & Dick" actress who's currently busy doing a press tour to promote the new TV movie could go back to jail if she's convicted of giving false information. TMZ reports the case will go to L.A. County Superior Court Judge Jane Godfrey for arraignment.

Hurricane Sandy Really No Big Deal, Lindsay Lohan Tweets

Lindsay Lohan knows a thing or two about total and complete disasters. At least in her personal life.

So with Hurricane Sandy and its 85 mile-per-hour winds approaching the East Coast today, this trainwreck has a message for all those being evacuated and told to remain insider:

Calm down!

WHY is everyone in SUCH a panic about hurricane (i'm calling it Sally)..? Stop projecting negativity! Think positive and pray for peace, Lohan Tweeted in regard to the mammoth storm.

Seriously, people. Think positive and pray and you'll be fine just walking right through those record-breaking gusts and floods.

Among other, far more reasonable reactions on Twitter today from famous folks:

Alec Baldwin: Sandy . . .that b****!

Bethenny Frankel: I'm nervous. People say sandy is worse than Irene. We're on the water in the hamptons & near it in the city. Both will be evacuated

Jerry Seinfeld: Mayor Bloomberg going with zip up neck sweater to fight Sandy. Shows preparedness. Windy: zip it up Storm over: back down

Jimmy Fallon: East coasters stay safe – watch the news and look for updates. #Sandy We will be doing a new show tomorrow night no matter what. #LateNight

Jimmy Kimmel: starting to get windy here in #Brooklyn. . . I hope our shows don't fly away

Kirstie Alley: hello Maine . . . Is the storm hitting around Camden Maine?? thank you

Kristin Chenoweth: No Katie Couric show tomorrow because she needs to cover Frankenstorm! Scary stuff!

Kim Kardashian: Back in Miami now. Missed the storm. I'm praying for everyone on the East Coast. I hope everyone is safe!

Khloe Kardashian Odom: Praying for everyone on the East.

Larry King: Is #Sandy a boy or a girl?

Lena Dunham: My dad re: the hurricane: "I have tons of cash and a salad"

Fake Video of Lindsay Lohan Buying Drugs Likely Is Defamatory

A man featured in a viral video that implied he was Lohan's drug dealer looks primed to score a big win in court against paparazzi.

Lindsay Lohan

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge is set to rule soon that if you approach Lindsay Lohan on a street and hand her a bag of mysterious stones and crystals, that doesn't automatically give the paparazzi a right to photograph the event and present you as her cocaine dealer.

That's essentially what X-17, a celebrity news and photo service, was sued for in April.

The lawsuit came from Peter Dice, a Los Angeles drug counselor, who alleged he had been defamed when X-17 posted a video on its website that quickly went viral in an article titled, "Lindsay Lohan Makes a Purchase in Venice."

X-17 attempted to persuade a judge to drop the lawsuit on First Amendment grounds, but after a hearing Friday, the judge appears to be leaning toward handing the plaintiff a big victory.

According to the original complaint, Dice says he bumped into Lohan and her friend in front of a Venice Beach pub in August 2011. Dice handed her a bag of "healing crystals," which he says are a legal alternative healing medicine. Her friend whispered "cocaine" in Spanish, and Lohan handed the bag back.
The interaction was caught on videotape.

X-17 then posted the video and wrote: "At one point, Lindsay can be seen taking a bag from a friend. Her friend checks out the contents of the bag, and eventually Lindsay takes a different bag from another guy and hands over cash to pay for it."

After X-17 and its president and founder Francois Navarre refused requests by Lohan and Dice to retract the story, Dice sued for slander, libel, invasion of privacy (false light), violations of his publicity rights and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

In response, X-17's lawyers brought an anti-SLAPP motion, arguing that the lawsuit was stifling free speech.

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To decide whether the lawsuit survives, the judge has to look at two factors. Both were addressed in a tentative ruling heading into Friday's hearing.

The first is whether the causes of action arise from protected activity in furtherance of the defendants' constitutional right of free speech in connection with an issue of public interest.

On this factor, X-17 wins. The judge is set to accept the celebrity news agency's argument that Lohan is a world-famous public figure who is closely associated with substance abuse problems, and just because X-17 is a tabloid, that doesn't deprive it of First Amendment protection to report on something that the public cares about.

In light of that determination, Dice must then show a probability of prevailing on his claims before his lawsuit goes any further.

Here, X-17 is not so lucky.

The agency argued that Dice was a "limited-purpose public figure" because of his association with Lohan. If the judge accepted this, it would mean that Dice would need to show X-17 acted with actual malice, something that would no doubt be tough to demonstrate.

But, in the tentative ruling, the judge wouldn't give X-17 this legal gift.

"A plaintiff's trivial or tangential participation in the public controversy is not enough," says the judge. "The plaintiff must have ‘thrust [himself or herself] to the forefront' of a public controversy, becoming a factor in the ultimate resolution of it."

The judge continues with one of the best lines ever in a defamation case. He says, "Approaching Lindsay Lohan on a busy public street, in front of paparazzi, with a bag containing a crystalline substance can be fairly characterized as a regrettable decision -- but not one which transformed Plaintiff into a limited-purpose public figure."

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The judge is set to throw out the publicity rights claim but keep the others, having determined that Dice has "sufficiently established" that X-17 and Navarre "negligently" published the disputed video and article.

The case isn't quite over, as X-17 argued that even without being able to avail itself of a no-actual-malice defense, the celebrity news agency still can show there was no actionable statements made in the article -- in other words, that it was all opinion and no fact. In the tentative ruling, the judge wasn't ready to address that. But after taking everything under advisement following Friday's hearing, that issue might be addressed soon.
Courtesy: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com

Nostalgia alert! Hilary Duff plots a return to TV

Lizzie McGuire is back! Or, at least, she will be. Former Disney Channel star Hilary Duff announced via Twitter yesterday that she’ll soon be returning to a small screen near you. “Ok it’s official!” she wrote. “Very excited about my development deal with 20th century fox!! t.v. here I come! “

A rep for 20th Century Fox filled in the details, telling EW that Duff has signed a one-year deal to develop a half-hour sitcom that she will both produce and star in. If her vehicle ends up not moving forward, 20th Century Fox can also cast Duff in another sitcom or drama pilot.

It’s hard to believe, but the girl who was once caught in a love triangle with Lindsay Lohan and Aaron Carter is now a 24-year-old adult with a husband, a baby, and a second career writing YA novels. Still, I can’t help but hope that her new show will be some variation on Lizzie McGuire: All Grown Up.