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Lindsay Lohan has bailed out of jail where she spent only about 15 hours for failing another court-ordered drug test.
LOS ANGELES:
US starlet Lindsay Lohan has bailed out of jail where she spent only about 15 hours for failing another court-ordered drug test, a celebrity website reported.
The 24-year-old was led from a court in handcuffs Friday morning - the third time in as many years - after Judge Elden Fox of the Beverly Hills Superior Court found evidence Lohan was guilty of substance abuse.
Fox denied bail to Lohan after she tested positive for cocaine in a court-ordered test but Lohan’s attorney argued that it was unlawful for the actor to be remanded without bail for 30 days while she waited for her hearing which is set to take place on October 22 reported entertainment website E! Online. The decision was then reversed by Judge Patricia Schnegg, assistant supervising judge, who set bail at $300,000.
Celebrity website TMZ said the actor, once seen as a budding Hollywood star, was released shortly before midnight from the Century Regional Detention Facility in the Lynwood suburb of Los Angeles after posting bail.
The Mean Girls star had originally faced up to 30 days in jail. She is due back in court on October 22 to determine whether she violated her probation from an earlier sentence by testing positive for drugs. Lohan must also wear an ankle bracelet that will monitor her blood alcohol content and “stay out of places where (alcoholic beverages) are the chief item of sale”.
Lohan was sentenced on July 6 to serve 90 days in jail and another 90 days in rehab for violating her probation in a drunk-driving case. But due to jail overcrowding, she served just 13 days, before being freed to the detox facility.
In 2007 she spent just 84 minutes in jail after police arrested her twice for cocaine possession while driving - in one instance crashing her Mercedes-Benz into a tree. Last week she admitted having failed a drugs test after TMZ and People magazine said she had tested positive for cocaine use, triggering judge Fox to summon her back for Friday’s court hearing.
A queen of Hollywood nights and a favourite target of the paparazzi, the former Disney child star was once considered one of the most promising actresses of her generation. But Lohan’s career has dipped many times since 2005 amid legal woes, stops in rehab and cinematic flops. In 2008 the Bobby and The Parent Trap star received two Razzie Awards, the satirical prizes presented to Hollywood’s worst acting performances.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2010.
US starlet Lindsay Lohan has bailed out of jail where she spent only about 15 hours for failing another court-ordered drug test, a celebrity website reported.
The 24-year-old was led from a court in handcuffs Friday morning - the third time in as many years - after Judge Elden Fox of the Beverly Hills Superior Court found evidence Lohan was guilty of substance abuse.
Fox denied bail to Lohan after she tested positive for cocaine in a court-ordered test but Lohan’s attorney argued that it was unlawful for the actor to be remanded without bail for 30 days while she waited for her hearing which is set to take place on October 22 reported entertainment website E! Online. The decision was then reversed by Judge Patricia Schnegg, assistant supervising judge, who set bail at $300,000.
Celebrity website TMZ said the actor, once seen as a budding Hollywood star, was released shortly before midnight from the Century Regional Detention Facility in the Lynwood suburb of Los Angeles after posting bail.
The Mean Girls star had originally faced up to 30 days in jail. She is due back in court on October 22 to determine whether she violated her probation from an earlier sentence by testing positive for drugs. Lohan must also wear an ankle bracelet that will monitor her blood alcohol content and “stay out of places where (alcoholic beverages) are the chief item of sale”.
Lohan was sentenced on July 6 to serve 90 days in jail and another 90 days in rehab for violating her probation in a drunk-driving case. But due to jail overcrowding, she served just 13 days, before being freed to the detox facility.
In 2007 she spent just 84 minutes in jail after police arrested her twice for cocaine possession while driving - in one instance crashing her Mercedes-Benz into a tree. Last week she admitted having failed a drugs test after TMZ and People magazine said she had tested positive for cocaine use, triggering judge Fox to summon her back for Friday’s court hearing.
A queen of Hollywood nights and a favourite target of the paparazzi, the former Disney child star was once considered one of the most promising actresses of her generation. But Lohan’s career has dipped many times since 2005 amid legal woes, stops in rehab and cinematic flops. In 2008 the Bobby and The Parent Trap star received two Razzie Awards, the satirical prizes presented to Hollywood’s worst acting performances.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2010.