Lindsay Lohan was a jailbird for just 84 minutes yesterday, becoming the latest celebrity to serve less than a day for a drunken driving offense.
Lohan, 21, turned herself in to the Los Angeles County women's detention center in Lynwood at 10:30 a.m. She was searched, fingerprinted and placed in a holding cell in the inmate reception area but got to keep her street clothes, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
“She was cooperative,” he said.
Lohan was released at 11:54 a.m. Her original daylong sentence was reduced because she met criteria that took into account overcrowding at the lockup and the fact that her crime was nonviolent, Whitmore said.
Did the celebrity receive special treatment?
“Absolutely not. This is what we do for most everybody in this position,” Whitmore said. In fact, 30 to 50 women are granted early releases from the facility every day, he added.
WEST PULLS OUT OF SHOW AFTER DEATH OF MOTHER
Kanye West pulled out of a performance at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show in Los Angeles following the death of his mother last weekend.
Gabe Tesoriero, publicist for the 29-year-old rapper, declined further comment yesterday.
The show, set to air Dec. 4 on CBS, was taping at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles yesterday. The Spice Girls were scheduled to make their debut reunion performance on the show.
West's mother, Donda West, 58, died Saturday night at Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Marina del Rey after she stopped breathing. She had undergone cosmetic surgery Friday in Los Angeles and had gone home.
HEFNER DONATES $2 MILLION TO USC CINEMATIC ARTS
Hugh Hefner has donated $2 million to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.
The money will fund a central exhibition space in the new headquarters of the school and an archival repository for student films and historic documents, the university said.
The existing repository, which bears Hefner's name, holds more than eight decades of student films, including some by George Lucas.
“I've always believed that following one's dreams is very important,” Hefner said.
judge fed up after Kid Rock misses court appearance A judge in Pontiac, Mich., is fed up with Kid Rock for failing to show up for a court-ordered deposition.
Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Shalina Kumar on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit the 36-year-old rocker filed this year against Kelly Ann Kozlowski, a Novi woman he said embarrassed and defamed him in a police report.
“What's special about him? Why does he get to violate a court's order?” Kumar asked Kid Rock's attorney, William Horton, after learning Kid Rock failed to show up for a deposition that she had ordered to take place by the end of October.
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