Since news of the lawsuit broke, Lindsay herself has had no comment. (And she also doesn’t have a publicist anymore.) The closest thing Lindsay’s come to making a public statement since yesterday is musing on her Twitter about the symptoms of swine flu. She’s in Paris enjoying Fashion Week, drunk (on milk, ‘natch).
So then who’s filing the lawsuit? Gawker makes the compelling case that her father and possibly mother are the ones filing the suit:
But the strange thing about the suit is that the lead attorney on the case, Stephanie Ovadia, has done legal work for Michael Lohan in the past, and Michael has repeatedly posted fulsome praise of Ovadia’s legal skills to his Twitter feed as recently as January. Last we checked, Michael was still in the midst of his famous feud with Lindsay—just last week, father and daughter were lobbing tabloid insults at one another, with Lindsay saying she didn’t speak to Michael and calling him “nuts.” So why would she seek out her dad’s lawyer just a few days later to file a $100 million lawsuit?
And her mother, Dina Lohan, gave this interview to the NY Post today:
The “Mean Girls” star was left sobbing uncontrollably when she saw an E-Trade ad on Super Bowl Sunday about a ditsy, boyfriend-stealing infant named Lindsay she believed was created in her likeness, her irate mom told The Post yesterday.
“She said, ‘Mommy, help me. This is wrong. How can they do this?’ ” Dina Lohan said of a tearful phone call with her 23-year-old daughter after the big game. …
“I’m just basically glad I took a stand. I’m not going to let them do this to us anymore,” Dina Lohan said of the “horrible” and “mean” ad.
E-Trade rejected Grey’s preferred nickname — “flank-steak woman” — just three days after the name Lindsay appeared, opting instead for the tamer “milk-a-holic.” Three months later, in the lead-up to the Super Bowl, [Grey's chief creative officer, Tor] Myhren actually still had concerns that E-Trade was being too tame in limiting his punch line. “We’re locked in,” he told me on January 8, “on everything except the very, very last word. It was something really aggressive but I thought hilarious. The girlfriend pops her head in and says, ‘Say it to my milk-a-holic face!’ I think it would have become a catchphrase, but E-Trade felt it was too aggressive. Provisionally, we have her saying ‘Milk-a-what?’ which doesn’t quite have the edge. I think it falls flat, but I hope I’m wrong.”
FASCINATING STUFF, but it all points to the frivolity of this lawsuit and the very real likelihood that Lindsay’s crazy-ass, money-grubbing parents are behind this, because their own paychecks have dried up now that their cash cow daughter can’t stay sober long enough to make any real money.
Oh, and a behind-the-scenes look at the E-Trade campaign is above. SO CUTE. Also: How much is all this publicity worth to E-Trade? Probably not $100M, but my guess is they’re enjoying this quite a bit.
OK, this pretty much epitomizes the self-centered celebrity image.
Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade over that Super Bowl ad where the babies are talking about stock trading and that one baby calls another baby named Lindsay a “milkaholic” and OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ABOUT LINDSAY LOHAN.
For realz, you guys. She’s suing for $100M — that’s $50 million in compensatory damages and $50 million of exemplary damages. The lawsuit also demanded that E-Trade stop running the ad and turn over all copies to her.
The suit claims the character of baby Lindsay improperly invoked her “likeness, name, characterization and personality” without permission, violating her right of privacy.
Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, tells the New York Post: “Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit. They used the name Lindsay. They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan.”
Jesus Christ. IT’S NOT LIKE THEY NAMED THE BABY OMAROSA.
Chris Brown, a spokesman for Grey Group, which produced the spot, says it “just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team.”
WOAH. Either it’s already April 1st or E-Trade has already paid Lindsay Lohan for the publicity this lawsuit is going to create for them, because this is complete and total madness. It’s like my entire job to keep an eye on what people are saying and thinking about Lindsay Lohan, and this is the very first I’ve heard of this. THIS IS RIDICULOUS, LINDSAY. YOU’RE NOT EVEN THAT RELEVANT ANYMORE.
Get a fucking job.
In other, sort of stranger news — and let me be clear that I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH A BABY — but I’m kind of turned on by the voice of the douchebag behind the trader baby. Even though I know he’s a douchebag who’s going to cheat on me and pretend that he can fix it by buying me a nice purse and taking me to a fancy dinner where he’ll wear an overpriced douchebag suit and talk about the stock market and check his cell phone for text messages every ten minutes until he finally just takes it out of his pocket and sets it on the table and interrupts me to answer it and talk with a client about the football game last night and even the gay waiter kind of rolls his eyes and glances at me like “You’re really gonna put up with this bullshit?” and then I will go home with him that night and have sex with him even though I will spend most of that experience with my head turned aside, rolling my eyes and wishing I could be texting during this bullshit, and he will ask me in the morning if I’ll make him a bowl of cereal and I will do that and when I bring it to him he will be on his cell phone talking about the stock market. I WANT THAT.
Why are women so stupid? It’s probably because we all have to share a chromosome with Lindsay Lohan.
Lindsay Lohan’sbrief foray into couture is over as quickly as it began — she has been fired as the artistic director of fashion house Emanuel Ungaro. According to Women’s Wear Daily
Lohan was not at the Ungaro show Monday morning, leaving chief designer Estrella Archs to take a solo bow.
“She’s not involved in this collection,” Ungaro owner Asim Abdullah told WWD backstage before the fall show, declining further comment.
Later in the day, Lohan turned up in Kenzo’s front row. Asked why she hadn’t been at Ungaro, she replied: “Because I don’t work for them anymore.” Prompted for more specifics, she noted, “There’s legal things going on; I can’t really discuss it.”
I didn’t realize being a talentless, clueless dirty whore was actually a legal issue nowadays. Good to know. You might want to see about getting your mom an attorney on retainer then, just to be safe.
That’s a trick question, y’all, like “How many licks does it take to get the center of a Tootsie Pop?” NOBODY KNOWS because that goddamn owl keeps fucking everything up.
I have no idea where I’m trying to go with this post.
Lindsay Lohan — who is definitely not designing for Ungaro anymore, and they want to make damn sure you know that — spent yet another day trolling around Paris in godawful clothes. Several different sets of godawful clothes. Enjoy them all in the gallery below.
Photographer Terry Richardson looks like he should be on a street corner in a wheelchair with a bottle of whiskey and recurring Nam flashbacks (see him here in this creepy pic with the whole Lohan family) but he has somehow managed to convince the women he shoots to take off their clothes in the name of “art.” Don’t get me wrong here; I’m not arguing objectification. Objectify and hyper-sexualize all you want. What I’m arguing against is the masquerading of objectification as art. Don’t dip a turd in frosting and tell me it’s a goddamn cupcake. Because now I make sure to really smell all desserts before I actually bite into them. That’s one mistake I won’t make twice!
The #1 rule of photographing Lindsay Lohan is this: She must be smoking a cigarette. It’s in her standard contract. Honestly, Lindsay, if you’re trying to reform your party-girl image and convince the world that you’re no longer a nose-candied wastoid passed out on the late-night choo-choo train to Heath Ledgerville, stop glamorizing your cigarettes.
That said — and I know you guys will disagree — I love it when Lindsay does these photo spreads. I think she’s a fantastic model. She’s so magnetic and engaging in photos, and I’m always interested to see how she’s posed and what face she’s making and what she is (or isn’t) wearing. This is what she truly does best. (She used to be a half-decent actress back when she could stay sober for long enough to film a movie. That was a good six years ago at this point, though.)
Here’s some shots from her session with Terry Richardson for Purple.
“I write a lot and it’s very therapeutic for me because then I can see what’s happening on paper. I’ve started writing a book. It’s going to take a while, all my life experiences. I started writing it a year ago. There’s a lot to put down, you know?”
-Lindsay Lohan tells OK! that she’s working on a book. A lot to put down? Yeah, we know.
Lindsay Lohan is so mental and it’s the best. Today we’re graced with these photos of her tossing a Red Bull on some paparazzi as she leaves a fashion show in Milan. Yup. Bitch is in Milan, going to Roberto Cavalli fashion shows and tossin’ liquid crack at the photographers who keep her ass relevant. I gotta say, I don’t know what we’d do without this chick.
Lindsay Lohan’s interview with The Sun is so bananas that yesterday I didn’t even believe that it was real. Turns out that not only is it real, but yesterday was just the tip of the iceberg. Today we get part two of the interview and this is where we get to the juicy stuff, namely Lindz famously tumultuous relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson.
Once again, let’s just skip to the best quotes:
“I never really thought about women before, it kind of just happened with Samantha. It surprised me. We’re still in touch. We live in the same apartment building in LA and see each other often. She has always been one of my best friends.”
“If I wasn’t with Samantha, I would probably be with a boy next. She’s the only woman I’ve been attracted to.”
“We love each other. We might reconcile the relationship, maybe. I don’t know.”
“I think Samantha was growing as a celebrity and a musician and I think that might have scared her family. But I’ve always been her biggest supporter and, yeah, I love her.”
“All the fighting stuff was just because all her friends had got involved and made me an outcast, which wasn’t fair to Samantha. I think it was a jealousy thing in terms of her becoming more famous than the rest of them.”
“She kind of does what she wants now. It’s changed, so who’s to say we won’t be together again?”
“Mostly it was great. Everyone has ups and downs, it’s normal. But in front of the public eye they’re going to take the downs and make it seem like they’re a million times worse. That comes with the territory.”
“It was a big deal for me because I’ve never had a relationship as public as that, especially being with a girl for the first time. That was really scary for me. But I didn’t care because I love her.”
First of all, I love the idea of the Ronson family struggling with Samantha’s “fame”. Considering that Samantha’s brother is a huge music producer and her sister is a top fashion designer, I would assume that the Ronson’s problem was not with their daughter being in the spotlight, but whom she was in the spotlight with. And the talk about a possible reconciliation? Ugh, kill me. If I don’t think I can survive these two giving it another go, there’s no way that they will.
Lindsay Lohan did an interview with UK’s The Sun, and it’s so honest that I don’t even believe that it’s real. We’ve been waiting for years for Lindsay to just admit outright that she at least used to be a cokehead, but she’s never been that specific until now. I’m just going to share with you some of the best quotes and then you tell me if you think this could possibly be a legit interview:
“When my father was going public, that’s when I hit rock bottom. I abused substances too much and it wasn’t the answer to my problems. People need to know that.”
“I tried to mask my problems with alcohol, cocaine and mind-altering substances. Now I’m in a place where I don’t need to use anything and I can feel emotions because I choose to.”
“I learnt from my mistakes and I’m now healthy and happier. I never want to be close to losing everything I worked for and aspired to have my whole life.”
“Mind-altering substances are so dangerous. If I can teach others, especially teens, by sharing my experiences, then that’s what I will continue to do.
“I’ve made some dreadful mistakes but learned from them – that has probably saved my life.”
“I went to rehab three times. The first time I checked myself in because I had taken Ambien. It’s a sleeping aid but it makes you hallucinate.”
“I’d run a bath and fallen asleep on the floor and the bath had overflowed.”
“When I woke up I was so scared, I called my therapist and said, ‘Can I just go somewhere for a month?”
“I was only aware of cocaine because of my dad. I was terrified of it. But I tried it because I was stubborn, stupid, and wanted to see what it was like.”
“It’s not something I ever want to do again. It made me feel like s***. It became uninteresting to me. I’m hyper anyway and I have that kind of personality so I don’t need something like that.”
See what I mean? If this is real, this is a fairly explosive interview. It’s not that anything she’s saying is news to us, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen Linds take ownership like this before. One sure-fire sign that this could have been a real interview conducted by text or email? The use of the non-word “learnt”.
What do you guys think about this?
[UPDATE: OK, OK. So "learnt" is a word. In "British English". I'm so sure that a woman who doesn't have a grasp on common sense or her sobriety and is without a proper education occasionally slips in and out of the King's English. My mistake.]
