Lindsay Lohan gets 30 days in jail for breaching probation
Actress Lindsay Lohan sits with her lawyer inside the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California on November 2, 2011. Troubled US actress Lohan was sentenced to 30 days behind bars Wednesday after admitting she had violated the terms of her probation after previous legal tangles. Judge Stephanie Sautner ordered the 25-year-old to surrender to county jail by November 9 to begin the sentence, while issuing a series of conditions to avoid serving another 270 days in jail. AFP PHOTO/POOL/MARIO ANZUONI
LOS ANGELES—Troubled US actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 30 days behind bars Wednesday after admitting she had violated the terms of her probation after previous legal tangles.
Judge Stephanie Sautner ordered the 25-year-old to surrender to county jail by November 9 to begin the sentence, while issuing a series of conditions to avoid serving another 270 days in jail.
In her latest court appearance, Lohan agreed to carry out more community service at the LA morgue and to undergo further psychotherapy sessions — both of which she had already been ordered to do, but failed to fulfill.
The actress, who arrived wearing a black vintage dress, was ordered to return to court on December 14, after which she must attend roughly monthly court appointments to verify she is fulfilling the terms of the ruling.
“If you do all that, then this jail time (270 days) will be permanently stayed,” said the judge, describing her ruling as “putting the keys to the jail in the defendant’s pockets.”
Lohan was sentenced to 35 days of house arrest in May, as part of a plea bargain over the alleged theft of a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry shop near her home in Venice Beach.
Sautner ruled at that time that the starlet had violated her probation for a 2007 drug and drunk driving offense when she allegedly stole the necklace on January 22.
At Wednesday’s court appearance, Sautner ordered Lohan to report to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, south of Los Angeles, by November 9 to begin serving the 30-day sentence.
Lohan has been jailed several times in recent years, but has managed to be released within hours — though the judge indicated that would not be the case this time.
“You are not to be eligible for house arrest, electronic monitoring and any other early release other than that required by the law,” Sautner told Lohan, who responded “Yes, your honor,” when asked if she agreed to abide by the ruling.
Prosecutors listed a series of failures by Lohan to comply with previous terms of her release, notably to carry out community service and to attend counseling sessions.
Of the sessions with a psychologist, Lohan canceled 14 out of 19 scheduled 45-minute appointments, while of the five she did attend, three were cut short, lasting only 30 minutes.
She also canceled 12 out of 20 scheduled sessions working at a downtown women’s center, prosecutors said.
Lohan — once the promising child star of hit Disney movies “The Parent Trap” and “Freaky Friday” — has a reputation for hard partying and has faced a series of legal troubles.
Wednesday’s sentencing came a week after Lohan was reported by the TMZ celebrity news website to have posed nude for Playboy in a deal worth nearly $1 million.
The actress had wanted $1 million and balked at an initial offer of $750,000, TMZ reported. Playboy boss Hugh Hefner came back with an offer below her asking price — but close enough for her to agree the deal, it said.
A spokeswoman for the actress declined to comment, telling AFP: “I am neither confirming nor denying the reports.” Playboy also had no comment on the report.
