Actress Lindsay Lohan sits courtside before the NBA basketball game between
the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, California,
January 9, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Posted on 02/09/2011 11:41:46 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Lindsay Lohan was charged on Wednesday with grand theft over a $2,500 necklace that was allegedly taken from a Los Angeles jewelry store.
Lohan was scheduled to appear in court later on Wednesday for an arraignment on the single felony count.
If convicted, the 24-year-old "Mean Girls" star could be sent to prison just as she struggles to end more than three years of court appearances, failed drug tests and brief spells in jail stemming from a 2007 drunk driving conviction.
Lohan's lawyer has said that the actress denies the allegations and will fight them in court.
Friends have said Lohan believed the necklace, which has been returned to police, was on loan.
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I'm an old softy..
She just doesn't look like the old prison hag type.. but I could be wrong.
Actress Lindsay Lohan sits courtside before the NBA basketball game between
the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, California,
January 9, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
No offense but basing your decision on looks and feelings is you being a big wussy liberal.
Best thing that could happen to her is she does some serious time. Not everyone learns lessons an easy way. Some have to learn them a very hard way.
“She just doesn’t look like the old prison hag type..”
All prison hags start out as someone else. This is just the tip of the iceberg with Lohan.
She’s an alcoholic and a drug addict, why wouldn’t she also be a clepto?
They’re saying there are at least 3 other instances where she ‘accidentally’ took some high dollar items in the past but they didn’t press charges.
I’m saying she’s a spoiled brat who portrays the worst of american society. She’s needs to finally be sent away for longer than a couple weeks.
I believe there was a misunderstandin....she is not so stupid as to get felony charges over a 2,500 necklace imho
This girl has a sense of entitlement that’s on steroids.
Winona Ryder has time on her hands — she could play the part of the defense attorney.
TMZ.com
She turns up to court to ask the judge for leniency towards her for violating her parole with the words "f**k you" painted on one of her fingernails.
She deserves all she gets.
I hope they don’t go easy on her and actually make an example of her so she does HARD TIME. Then maybe we won’t be hearing so much of these Hollywood celebrities getting off with a slap on the wrist and free publicity to further their career.
I hope they don’t go easy on her and actually make an example of her so she does HARD TIME. Then maybe we won’t be hearing so much of these Hollywood celebrities getting off with a slap on the wrist and free publicity to further their career.
It’s easy to make a simple mistake when you are terminally stoned outa yer ghord.
She is.
Courtside is a good place for her.
That’s the $2500 necklace in question? Wow, unless that a piece of Elvis’ tooth stuck in there I’d give you a buck-fifty for it.
But what do I know...
No offense taken, lol. I have a soft spot in muh heart for lost causes and needy females.
She’s looking at 3 years in state prison.. at least she has lots of friends that will visit her, and if not, she can always find some pen pals.
This is nothing more than a DA looking for personal publicity.
If when Lohan says ‘borrowed it’ she actually means that she just took it, expecting the jewelry store owner to NOT call the police....assuming the owner would just call her to have it returned.....THEN I’ll believe Lohan’s story.
I’m still saying she’s a clepto, she’s a drug-addled mental case why wouldn’t she also be a clepto?
That’s exactly what I thought. She seems to think her so called stardom entitles her to whatever she wants.
I imagine there would be paperwork involved with a loan of this nature. If she didn’t do the paperwork then she stole it.
I don’t think many of us are unaware of Lindsey’s recent record. Hearing her attorney describe her situation in sympathetic terms is hilarious.
NormsRevenge is a good person.
Frankly, I was considering making a similar comment based on her looks, although I would have gone the other way. She’s definitely a hag to me.
These people that have so much going for them, get very little sympathy from me.
My only comment on her, is that I wish she would clean up her act, for her own sake. And of course for the sake of the people who actually give a damn about her also.
I'm afraid she will find that those "friends" will have no time or use for her if she's locked up. Sad... but we all get a reality check at some point in our lives. Hopefully this is hers.
Get real. If it was on loan, she would have had to sign an agreement form that included terms and conditions.
She'll be fortunate to make it to thirty.
Wasn’t that a riot. Yep, this is one clueless individual.
Her lawyer made her the ‘fall white gal’.
You know you are the first person I’ve heard (other than myself) that thinks that “one of a kind” necklace is a piece of crap...certainly not worth $2500. Because it is a “one of a kind” necklace and she was spotted and pictured wearing it after it went missing, she is, thus, a thief. I notice TMZ has a story today with picture on the $12,000 fur coat she lifted (mistakenly, right?) from a party goer some time back that was “settled amicably”, and a necklace worth $200,000 that went missing from her photo shoot that I don’t think ever showed up. This girl needs some stern discipline, and kept off drugs for a year or so...I would recommend incarceration...and not in some fancy rehab...jail, if I were the Judge. Might save her life.
I’m really hoping she gets off lightly, it would be a shock to the popculture economy (TMZ, Perez, et al) if they didn’t have this trainwreck to write about all the time. Probably throw us back into recession and we’d all have to go steal our $2500 necklaces and stuff...
She should be put in protective custody-at Charlie Sheen’s
house!
Dope Fiend
Haggard
Alcoholic
I hate watching these very public, slow motion, celebrity suicides and the way she's going, it's not if, but when.
Take off her makeup, give her a prison hairdo, and feed her prison food for 3+ years and she will fit right in.
I think the store owner that is making the complaint should be jailed. There is nothing even remotely $2500 about this necklace.
I wish they would just lower the hammer and quit screwing around with this skank.
I hope they have a good prison ministry in the jail for her.
Hell, She should have stolen it in 1849 when it would be worth about $32.00
Lohan isn’t particularly attractive and has no discernable talent. She was cute when she was little but cocaine and booze really did a number on her.
IMHO, drug addicts are often confused. I would not be surprised if she thought this was true, but it was a fantasy.
OTOH, I saw her walk away from an accident where she hit and damaged someone’s car. Like Obama, if it’s not important to her, it’s just maybe not that important.
Even at today’s prices, I doubt that there’s more than $80 worth of gold in that thing.
Is the charge based on what it was WORTH, or what price they decided to try to sell it for?
A car on a car lot may be for sale at $2,500.00, but it may only be worth $800.00.
I smell a frame job.
Just know I wasn’t trying to rip you personally, I know your posts and know you’re not a liberal. This just made you sound like one.
I don’t like anyone making decisions based on looks. Lots of horrid beautiful people out there and lots of nice unattractive people out there too. And in general women benefit from this way more than guys do and when it comes to matters of law it’s totally wrong. I don’t care about bars offering a ladies night, I do care about a judicial system that is biased because of looks or gender.
Wow. Not the face of a 24 year old. If the caption under the pic read that she was 39, I would not think twice.
It’s easy to make a simple mistake when you are terminally stoned outa yer ghord.
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I have known a few people over the years that the 2nd thing they do after waking up is to smoke pot, and to keep it up all day.
None of them are anywhere near Lindsay is. It’s not the drugs. It is her psyche that is broken.
You think that’s a stash in the pouch hanging off her neck?
Even at today’s prices, I doubt that there’s more than $80 worth of gold in that thing.
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Too funny. When you take your car to the shop, and they install a 45 dollar part and charge you 379 dollars for labor, you pay it, don’t you? Why? Maybe because you understand the time and level of expertise that went into the repair?
From the news stories, I’d say the DA has a significant uphill battle to prove intent. With a photo of her wearing it, all she’s likely to get is a receiving stolen property charge - if that.
She’s got plenty of time to screw up - this one’s probably not worth it.
Colonel, USAFR
>> She just doesn’t look like the old prison hag type
Not yet anyway, but with some practice I’m sure she could “grow into the part”. She’s an ACTRESS, you know!
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