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If anyone was wondering how Lindsay Lohan would make a living after her stay in jail and in-patient rehab, we now have our answer. The 24-year-old actress, who hasn't headlined a theatrical release since 2007, is set to net a lucrative payday for her first post-sentence interview.



OK! magazine has offered Lohan $1 million for the interview, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lohan has reportedly not yet agreed to the deal — she's still receiving treatment at a rehab facility run by UCLA Medical Center — but she will likely be released well before completing the court-ordered 90-day treatment plan, instead entering an out-patient program. Thus we might be hearing from Lohan — and the actress might be cashing a hefty paycheck — sooner than previously expected.

Lohan, of course, won't be the first celebrity to be offered a big payoff following a personal scandal or tragedy. In 2007, after serving a short jail stint, Paris Hilton was reportedly offered as much as $1 million from NBC for her first post-jail interview before that deal fell through and she appeared on "Larry King Live," reportedly without payment. NBC also reportedly paid $2 million for an interview with Prince William and Prince Harry and the American rights to broadcast a concert in honor of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Whichever outlet ultimately lands the Lohan interview, it should expect to pony up some serious cash, as the actress' professional opportunities are limited at this point. She was fired from "The Other Side" in April, with the film's director, David Michaels, saying that "producers of the movie have reported that financiers have been resistant to finance the movie with Lindsay in the lead role." He added that Lohan was simply "not bankable."

She does have a small role in Robert Rodriguez's "Machete," but it's not clear she'll be free to promote the film. Meanwhile, the filmmakers behind "Inferno," a biopic in which Lohan is set to star as 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace, remain committed to the actress, though the indie flick will hardly deliver a significant payday.

In addition to the interview paycheck, THR reports that Lohan could attract appearance fees in New York and Los Angeles that range anywhere from $25,000 to $100,000. Yet it remains to be seen whether Lohan can make the necessary personal and professional changes to stay out of legal trouble in the future, especially as she heads back into the media spotlight so soon after jail and rehab.

"She can take this and she can learn from it and it becomes a cathartic event in her life," Howard Bragman, founder of publicity firm Fifteen Minutes, told MTV News. "The one thing we haven't heard from Lindsay is 'I'm sorry, I have a problem, I'm going to resolve it.' She doesn't have PR problems, she has life problems. You can't fix your problems until you admit you have them. I think she needs a lot of therapy. She needs to let her career be second and her life be first."

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From TMZ:

TMZ has learned Lindsay Lohan has a very strict guest list at UCLA rehab -- in fact, the only people allowed to visit her while she's inside the facility are blood relatives ... but that all changes in a few weeks.

Multiple sources close to Lindsay tell us the actresses friends have been told that LiLo is on a program which prohibits LiLo from receiving visits from non-relatives ... until she's completed the first 30 days of her 90 day stint.

We're also told Lindsay has to personally approve each visitor before they're allowed inside.

Lindsay's mom Dina and sister Ali have already dropped by multiple times since the actress began treatment.

Complex have come out in support of Lindsay Lohan even though the actress allegedly failed to give them a promised interview.

The magazine's founder, Marc Eckõ, calls the recently imprisoned 24-year-old, 'the consummate professional.'

He says the actress - who appears on the cover of the latest issue - has 'real talent.'

Eckõ goes on to say: 'Yes, she can be a pain in the a** to work with, but for all the chaos and calamity of her life, she is the consummate professional, a natural when she's in front of a camera.'

According to an article inside the magazine, the actress allegedly didn't respond to their calls to arrange the interview.

Complex say: 'So here we are. As we go to press, it's late June - more than a month since we shot these pictures - and we still haven't gotten our interview.

'Emails have gone unanswered; the same for voicemails left with her mum, Dina.

'The photographers' agent, who's known Lindsay for a long time, admitted to us that he hasn't had contact with her for weeks.'

Apparently, Lindsay Lohan's mom is heartbroken and distraught and is in a deep depression ever since her daughter has been locked up in prison!

From TMZ:

"Sources close to Dina tell TMZ that since LiLo's been behind bars DiLo has been ignoring phone calls and letting business deals lapse.

We're told she's been "laying low" and that she "cried a lot those first couple of days." As one person put it, "It broke her heart to have to see Lindsay in jail."

Dina's been unable to visit Lynwood Correctional Facility since Wednesday because Linds used up her allotted time for personal visits."

Lindsay faces the biggest crisis of her troubled career. She will spend the next two weeks in an L.A. jail and then 90 more days in rehab. This means she won't be available to promote her next film, the Robert Rodriguez action flick "Machete," which opens Sept. 3.

And her summer in the slammer has delayed production on "Inferno," in which she is to play 1970s adult film star Linda Lovelace. That project holds promise and if done right could have Hollywood talking about Lohan's acting ability rather than her antics.

However, writer-director Matthew Wilder has just one credit to his name -- the 2008 dark comedy "Your Name Here" inspired by the life of sci-fi writer Phillip Dick. And a recent explanation of his vision for this new film remains murky. As Wilder explained to RadarOnline.com, "There will be full frontal nudity but it will not be cinematic nudity, it will be more violent nudity. For example, linked images of the Vietnam war, that kind of context." Just what that means remains to be seen.

Lohan's efforts to promote this picture at the Cannes filmfest in May went awry. Volcanic ash ground flights and she missed a court appearance tied to her 2007 arrest for cocaine use and reckless driving. Back then, Lohan served 84 minutes in jail and was put on probation for three years. That was extended by one year when she failed to complete an alcohol-education course.

2007 marked a low point in her film career as well. Lohan starred as a pair of separated-at-birth twins in the horrific "I Know Who Killed Me." The film won a record eight Razzie Awards, including three for Lohan, who tied with herself for worst actress and won worst screen couple.

Less than a decade earlier, Lindsay Lohan had won over audiences and critics playing another set of twins in the 1998 Disney remake of "The Parent Trap." Five years later she starred in another Disney do-over -- "Freaky Friday" -- and won the breakthrough award at the MTV movie kudos. In 2004, she headlined the critically acclaimed "Mean Girls" and won both MTV Movie and Teen Choice awards.

Two years later, Lohan earned good reviews as part of the ensemble casts of a pair of prestigious projects. "A Prairie Home Companion" was the last film from auteur Robert Altman while "Bobby" marked the first feature helmed in a decade by actor Emilio Estevez. That film about events surrounding the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy was a contender at both the Golden Globes and Screen Actor Guild.

If Lohan is looking for inspiration in these dark days, one shining example is Robert Downey Jr., who also came to fame at a young age. He landed an Oscar nomination for "Chaplin" in 1992 but slid off the rails soon after and was arrested numerous times in the late 1990s before serving a year in jail. After his release, he turned to the small screen, winning a Golden Globe for a role on "Ally McBeal." While he lost that job after more trouble with the law, Downey eventually turned himself around and is now at the top of the A-list.

It’s going to be difficult to not roll your eyes about this one, but it's being reported that Michael Lohan's fiance has claimed a domestic violence case against him.

Sources are telling TMZ that Kate Major called the Southampton Town Police on Monday (July 19) at around 2pm, just before Lohan flew off to Los Angeles where his daughter Lindsay was turning herself in.


Apparently, a heated argument escalated between Michael and Jon Gosselin’s ex-fling and supposedly Lohan shoved Major over a chair, injuring her shoulder.

An insider also claims that Michael kicked Kate in her face, resulting in her paying a visit to the hospital.

Lindsay Lohan needs a court appeal, not just sober living.

Her dad, Michael Lohan, spoke out about his starlet daughter Sunday, insisting that it's a conflict of interest that Lindsay checked into a sober living facility founded by her new lawyer, Robert Shapiro.

Instead, he said his 24-year-old daughter really needs "a lot of prayers" and an attorney who will appeal her July 6 sentence from Judge Marsha Revel for three consecutive 30-day jail stints for violating probation for a pair of 2007 DUI busts.

The troubled Hollywood party-girl is slated to report to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif. on Tuesday.

But before any of that could go down, LiLo on Wednesday checked into Pickford Lofts, a Los Angeles sober house that uses meetings, meditation, and the 12-step program to address addiction.

Ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson visited her there Saturday and mom Dina dropped in Friday, according to TMZ.com.

The program was founded by Shapiro, who famously represented O.J. Simpson.

"It's a conflict of interest if he's putting her in his own sober house but not doing anything for her legally," Michael Lohan said of Shapiro, whose son Brent died of a drug overdose in 2005. "An attorney is ethically responsible for defending their client to the best of their ability."

"But when you have an attorney like Robert Shapiro, who went through so much with his own son and knows the effects of prescription medications, it doesn't make sense that he did nothing to appeal her case and get her off the meds before she goes to jail," Michael Lohan told the Daily News on Sunday.

"Everyone knows that when you go into the jail or prison system, if you're on prescriptions written by a doctor, they give them to you in prison," he said, adding that jail won't help Lindsey unless she gets addiction treatment.

"It's a continuous cycle. Here you are punishing a girl because she has a drug problem, or at least for things that resulted from a drug problem and not doing anything to fix it. I'm very upset that Robert Shapiro did nothing to appeal the case."

In response, Shapiro said, "I will wait to court to address all issues."

Lohan added that it was "sickening" to see his daughter sentenced to jail.

"There were a lot of mixed emotions in that courtroom," he said of the sentencing.

"First of all, hurt for her, and hurt that I saw the same people around her who enabled her, all sitting right up in front of me and behind me. It was sickening."

"The hardest part was that she was blindsided. She really didn't think she was going to get jail time. When she did her speech, I could see the actress Lindsay coming out.

"No father wants to see his daughter go through that. It broke my heart. The floodgates opened."

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The gorgeous and talented Lindsay Lohan is featured on the new hot cover of GQ Germany. This exclusive photoshoot was taken at the beach by the popular photographer Ellen Von Unwerth.

Lindsay Lohan has been hitting the party scene hard and hasn't done much work since her last film Labor Pains, which went straight to DVD. Despite her lack of income, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that she hasn't cut back on her spending and is now over half a million dollars in debt.

"Lindsay owes credit cards $600,000," a source tells RadarOnline.com of the troubled 23-year-old. "One card cut her off last week and it's only a matter of time before all her other credit cards cut her off too."

Lohan used to make a good chunk of change by doing club appearances, but as RadarOnline.com previously reported the invites are becoming sparse and the starlet gets only from $5,000 to $10,000 at most.

Lohan's financial woes are nothing new but the severity of them is. She recently made headlines when it was reported that the actress was two months behind on her rent, prompting her landlord to threaten eviction. Lohan allegedly paid $23,000 to catch up and stay in her place.

"One credit card company is going to discuss a payment plan for Lindsay," the source continued. "But if she doesn't have the income and can't make her payments, they are prepared to sue her."

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