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  • Lindsay Lohan Wants to Move to London Permanently

    Lindsay Lohan says that, after years of legal trouble here in the United States, she wants to live in England for good.

    Although in the middle of a run of David Mamet’s play “Speed-the-Plow,” Lohan had to run back to the U.S. briefly to fulfill the terms of a community service agreement she says she thought was done. The last-minute blitz of volunteer activity in the States fulfilled her probation terms, keeping her out of the slammer.

    But now Lindsay Lohan says she is strongly considering moving to London to stay.

    “I can definitely see myself settling in London permanently,” Lohan told the Daily Mail.

    “For me, I feel more comfortable working from London. And it is beautiful. The architecture is incredible and the parks are so nice. I also love exploring different cities and using London as a base means I can go to more places. That’s really important to me.”

    “I can go for a run here on my own,” Lohan said of living in London. “I do every morning, early. I needed to grow up and London is a better place for me to do that than anywhere else. In LA I didn’t know what to do, apart from go out every night.”

    But one of the best things about living in London is that Lohan’s own personal woes are not seen as fodder for public consumption.

    “You turn on the news in LA and it is all gossip about people. All the stuff that is going on in the world right now and this gossip is the news?” she said. “I love the BBC. I haven’t heard myself mentioned on TV since I have been here. That has been really weird for me, and great.”

    Not only does she not see her own name dragged through the headlines in London, she does not have to be subjugated to lurid news of others’ lives as much.

    “I don’t even know who got married and who got pregnant,” she says.

    Lindsay Lohan credits her life in london with helping her drop her old habits and grow up.

    “I’m in a really good place. I’m blessed to have been able to do a play in London and start a different way of life,” she says.

    “New York is very fast paced and it’s not like that over here for me. You grow up and change, and I’m really happy about that, as overall I feel a lot better. Moving here was a new start for me and my outlook on life is different now. Clean slate. Fresh start. Hard work pays off.”

  • Amanda Bynes: No DUI Prosecution for September Violation

    Amanda Bynes has seemingly dodged another bullet. The former Nickelodeon star of All That and The Amanda Show was stopped for drunk driving back in September, but the Los Angeles city attorney has decided not to pursue the DUI charge.

    “After much deliberation and review,” the city attorney decided the charge won’t be pursued, however the actress isn’t off the hook completely–at least not yet.

    “There was not enough evidence to provide a likelihood of conviction if filed,” City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljansaid in an interview with the New York Daily News.

    The L.A. County D.A. has yet to decide on whether to seek a probation-violation hearing. Amanda Bynes was taken into custody at 3:00 in the morning back on September 28th, after allegedly running a red light and stopping in the middle of an intersection just outside of Los Angeles. She was first arrested for DUI in 2012, but managed to avoid serving any jail time by completing an inpatient treatment program. In early 2014, she was placed on three years’ probation for that case.

    In the past year, however, mental illness seems to be the biggest caveat in Amanda Bynes’ life. She has suffered several delusional episodes in public, and publicly defamed her father–saying he sexually abused her.

    Onlookers will likely have mixed feelings about the L.A. city attorney not pursuing DUI charges against Amanda Bynes. Will their decision alleviate the weight the girl is carrying on her shoulders, and make her feel less stressed–or will it simply convey the message that she got away with something she shouldn’t have done in the first place?

    Perhaps if she faces the aforementioned probation violation instead, it will hit home that she isn’t above retribution. It’s uncertain what that punishment might be.

  • Lindsay Lohan Finishes Probation for 2011 Necklace Theft

    Often we hear about some sensational trial or charges when the case is first opened or the court proceedings are underway. But we don’t often hear about how everything ended up turning out in the end.

    For example, President Clinton was investigated for years in a string of allegations that finally culminated in the infamous Starr Report. Due to the findings in that report, Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

    But what about all the other allegations that Ken Starr repeatedly broadened his investigation to look into? What about Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, and Vince Foster’s death? These are terms that are sure to resurface in a potential Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign, even though the youngest eligible voters in 2016 were not even born when the special prosecutor’s investigations began, and only two years old when the Lewinsky scandal broke.

    Ken Starr’s successor, Robert Ray, released a report that stated, “This office determined that the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct.”

    Back in 2011, there was a lot of coverage about charges that actress Lindsay Lohan stole a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store. At the time, Lohan claimed she did not have it. Then she said it was not stolen, but was on loan to her and her stylist would return it. The store owner said Lohan had put it in her purse, but video showed that Lohan simply walked out of the store wearing it.

    In the end, Lohan pleaded “no contest” to the charge and was sentenced to 120 days in jail. Her informal probation extended until this year.

    And here, as the man said, is the rest of the story.

    Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney has ended Lohan’s probation in the necklace case. Reports state that she finished 102 hours of her 240-hour probation sentence by working with disabled adults and neglected children.

    “The judge was pleased, the prosecutors were pleased and of course I’m pleased that Lindsay’s doing well on probation, with her career, and generally with her life,” Lohan’s attorney said.

    Lohan is currently in London working on a production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow and apparently has no burning plans to return to the U.S.

    While news about Lohan in the States seems to be mostly about charges and rehab, Lohan’s performance in the Mamet play in London has been called “possibly the best thing about this show.” Maybe Lohan has found a place to fit and grow.

  • Amanda Bynes Sentenced To 3-Year Probation In DUI Case

    Troubled young actress Amanda Bynes struck a no-contest plea deal to reckless driving in a court case that originates from her DUI charge in 2012. She was arrested for getting into a fender bender with a Los Angeles County Sheriff.

    Well-known DUI case attorney Richard Hutton, who is also Bynes’ lawyer, said that the no-contest plea deal is a called a “wet reckless”, which is one of the lowest charges that prosecutors can seek in a DUI case.

    According to L.A. County district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison, Judge Edward Moreton sentenced Bynes to three years of probation in exchange for her plea to “wet reckless”. The 27-year-old  She’s the Man star is also required to complete three months of alcohol education classes as part of her plea deal.

    The DUI charge stems from Bynes’ arrest in April 2012, in which she allegedly crashed her BMW into a police cruiser at around 3 a.m. in West Hollywood. While Bynes refused to take a sobriety test, she was booked for suspicion of DUI, but was released on bail the same day. That arrest was the start of a series of run-ins with the law – not just on the West Coast, but on the East Coast as well. She has been charged with hit-and-run and driving with a suspended license, but the charges were eventually dropped. In New York City, Bynes allegedly tossed a bong out of an apartment window.

    The former Nickelodeon child star was placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold last year following an incident in which she allegedly set a small fire in the driveway of her Thousand Oaks neighbor. In December, Bynes was released from the Malibu rehab facility after six months of treatment. She has since moved in with her parents Lynn and Rick and has been attending classes at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Orange County.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Ochocinco Arrested For Parole Violations

    Ochocinco Arrested For Parole Violations

    Last fall, former NFL star Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson plead no contest to misdemeanor domestic battery after allegedly head-butting his wife just one month after their wedding. Johnson received one year of probation for the charge, and was cut by the Miami Dolphins.

    Now, Johnson is back in court after violating the terms of his parole. According to a TMZ report, Johnson did not check in with his probation officer for two straight months and failed to show that he was enrolled in a domestic violence education class. A warrant for Johnson’s arrest was issued by Broward County last Thursday.

    In a video of Johnson’s courtroom appearance, the 35-year-old wide receiver described his behavior as a “total misunderstanding” between himself and his probation officer. The judge, however, took issue with the pace at which Johnson was completing his domestic violence classes, saying that he should have been done with them in March. Johnson’s bail has been set at $1,000.

  • Amanda Bynes Gets Probation For Driving Charges

    Amanda Bynes is now on probation.

    According to a TMZ report, Bynes plead no contest to a charge of driving on a suspended license and received three years probation. She has also received a $300 fine for the offense.

    The sentencing was the culmination of an entire year of driving-related offenses from the former Nickelodeon child actress. Her legal troubles began in March 2012, when she was cited for talking on her phone while driving. She followed that up with a D.U.I charge in April after rear-ending a police car in L.A. Later that year, Bynes was charged for two separate hit-and-run incidents and had her license revoked. She was caught driving on her suspended license just weeks later, the offense for which she is now on probation.

    Bynes’ legal and personal troubles led to her representatives dropping her, with one of them calling her “uncontrollable.”

    Since that time, Bynes has moved to New York on her own and is pursuing a career in fashion. She has been using her Twitter feed for self-promotion, tweeting out bizarre experiments with hair and makeup. Bynes even went so far as to tweet out topless pics of herself last week.

  • Former Miss Delaware: Probation Given For Alcohol Possession

    The former Miss Delaware Teen USA has now been put on probation.

    Melissa King, who resigned from her position as Miss Delaware in February, has been hit with probation for the underage possession of alcohol, according to a report from the Associated Press. The 19-year-old former beauty queen was reportedly driving her father’s truck home from work when she was stopped for a broken taillight. A bottle of rum was found in the vehicle.

    King has been placed on one year of unsupervised probation for the violation. She had also been charged for stealing money from a city bus fare box, but those charges were dropped. King’s lawyer explained the incident, saying that she and a friend took back their bus fares after deciding not to ride a bus.

    King resigned as Miss Delaware following the surfacing of a pornographic video she had starred in. Though she denied starring in the video, producers for GirlsDoPorn.com stated that King was paid $1,500 for the scene. The intro to the video (SFW) can be seen below.