Lindsay Lohan’s house arrest to end next week

Actress Lindsay Lohan’s house arrest for stealing a necklace from a Venice jewelry store is scheduled to end Wednesday.

Angry with paparazzi photos apparently showing Lohan partying on the rooftop of her Venice home, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner told the actress Thursday she could not entertain more than one guest at a time while under house arrest.

But that restriction will end Wednesday when Lohan completes a 35-day home-detention stint following her conviction for shoplifting a gold-and-diamond necklace.

The conviction came as Lohan was on probation in a driving-under-the-influence case.

Sautner sentenced the “Mean Girls” star in May to 120 days in jail, but Lohan applied for a low-risk offender diversion program created to ease jail overcrowding.
Lohan was deemed eligible and is serving the stint inside her beachfront home while wearing an electronic monitoring device.

Lohan was in court Thursday after a probation report said she failed a June 13 alcohol test, but Sautner ruled it did not violate her probation because the testing requirement had ended months earlier.

Legal experts said Lohan’s second positive test for alcohol since treatment last year at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage will make it harder for producers to insure her for film work.

“Most production companies are going to have trouble getting insurance for her. She is unpredictable; her insurance rates are very high,” said attorney Dmitry Gorin, who represents Hollywood clients.

Sautner appeared angry Thursday with Lohan’s recent behavior, saying the actress was guilty of “extremely poor judgment.”

Lohan’s neighbors had complained to Los Angeles County supervisors about the noise from her party, the judge said.

“If you are in jail, you are not allowed to have parties. House arrest should be akin to jail,” Sautner said. “I have no ground for modifying your probation. Don’t give me grounds. Do you want to get on with your life?”

“Yes, I do,” replied Lohan.

The judge snapped back: “[Then] don’t do stupid things that give people a reason to hate you. … Don’t do stupid things that fly in the face of the spirit of the court’s order. You knew I sentenced you to jail. You knew I was unhappy with house arrest.”

Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Holley, said Lohan did not do anything wrong because the alcohol test was not a condition of probation.

“Alcohol is a legal substance. She is permitted to drink alcohol,” Holley said outside court.

Holley would not confirm the actress drank alcohol but said Lohan did cancel a scheduled interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer recently because of concerns related to the alcohol-test investigation.

Just four days after Lohan’s detention began May 26, probation officials discovered her monitoring equipment had been damaged by friends spilling a drink on it.

Following the court appearance, Lohan took to Twitter.

“Thank you to all of my fans for your support. Sending you Love and Light,” Lohan wrote.

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com