By the time she was 11-years-old she had starred in the hit movie, The Parent Trap. Lindsay Lohan was on her way to a shining future, or was she a product of her environment or sucked in by a predestined genetic curse? Whatever the cause of Lindsay’s rapid decline is she about to become the newest member of the 27 Club with a July birthday fast approaching when she will turn 27? She has been front and center in the news for the past several years when it comes to celebrities and their addictions. Her erratic behavior has caused her acting career to come to a crashing halt
Where it all started
May 26, 2007: Just two months before her 21st birthday, Lohan is busted for a DUI and possession of cocaine following her losing control of her Mercedes in Beverly Hills and causing a car accident. She checks into Promises Treatment Center in Malibu for her second visit to rehab. Lohan is voluntarily fitted with an alcohol monitoring bracelet after her release from her 45-day rehab stay.
July 14, 2007: Lindsay Lohan checks out of Promises rehab.
July 24, 2007: Just two months later, right after her 21st birthday, Lohan is arrested in Santa Monica on suspicion of driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license and felony drug possession. The arrest stemmed from a car chase Lohan reportedly had with the mother of her personal assistant. She was later charged with seven misdemeanor counts in relation to two DUI arrests
Aug. 23, 2007: Lohan goes to court and pleads guilty to misdemeanor cocaine use and driving under the influence and is sentenced to one day in jail and 10 days of community service and placed on three years’ probation. Lohan enters rehab for a third time, this time at the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Sundance, Utah.
October 5, 2007: Lohan leaves the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center after completing the program.
March 13-16, 2009: A Beverly Hills judge issues a $50,000 warrant related to Lindsay Lohan’s May 2007 DUI arrest only to rescind it three days later after her attorney Shawn Holley shows that she had been complying with the terms of her probation.
October 16, 2009: After arriving more than an hour late to a probation hearing in Beverly Hills on October 16 for a progress review on her two DUI cases, Lindsay Lohan is given another year of probation due to failure to complete alcohol-education classes.
May 20, 2010: Lohan misses a required court hearing in which the judge was to determine whether she had been attending weekly alcohol counseling sessions as ordered. Defense lawyer Shawn Holley tells the judge Lohan is unable to fly back from the Cannes Film Festival in France because she lost her passport. An arrest warrant issued by the judge at the hearing is withdrawn after a representative for the actress-singer posted her $100,000 bail.
May 24, 2010: Lohan is once again fitted with an alcohol-monitoring SCRAM device on her ankle and ordered to refrain from drugs and booze and undergo weekly random drug testing as part of the conditions of her bail.
June 8, 2010: A judge rules Lohan is in violation of her probation, raises her bail to $200,000 and issues a new bench warrant for her arrest two days after Lindsay’s SCRAM alcohol-monitoring ankle brace suspiciously lights up at an MTV Movie Awards after-party. The warrant is subsequently recalled after a bail bondsman covers Lohan’s bond.
July 6, 2010: Revel orders Lohan to serve 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation. The judge also orders Lohan to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab program after her jail term is completed.
July 20, 2010: Lohan turns herself in to authorities. Lohan is put in handcuffs in a Beverly Hills courtroom and taken to jail to begin her term. She only serves two weeks in jail due to prison overcrowding and the non-violent nature of her crime.
August 2, 2010: Lohan is released from the Lynwood Correctional Facility after two weeks behind bars. She is immediately taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles to begin her court-ordered rehab.
August 24, 2010: Lohan is released from rehab after just 23 days.
August 26, 2010: Judge Eldon Fox imposes a new set of probation rules that allow Lohan to live in her West Hollywood, California, home. Her defense lawyer Holley tells the judge” She has learned her lesson.”
September 17, 2010: Lohan acknowledges through Twitter postings that she failed a drug test, but says she’s “working hard to overcome” her drug addiction. “Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test and if I am asked, I am prepared to appear before judge Fox next week as a result,” Lohan tweets. The drug test failure involved cocaine and amphetamines
September 24, 2010: Lohan’s probation is revoked after she fails a drug test which found cocaine in her system. She is hauled off in cuffs to jail. Lohan is released that night after another judge overturns the decision and grants a $300,000 bail. She is fitted with yet another alcohol-detection bracelet.
September 28, 2010: Lohan checks herself into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, for substance abuse rehab.
October 22, 2010: Fox orders Lohan to remain in a drug rehabilitation program until January 3 for a probation violation. He warns that if she violated the rules of her rehab program or fails a drug test before her next court date, February 25, she will be sent to jail for 180 days
December 12, 2010: Lohan is involved in an incident with Dawn Holland, a Betty Ford Center staffer who is later fired after information was leaked to the media.
January 3, 2011: Lohan leaves the Betty Ford Clinic and moves into an apartment in Venice, California.
January 22, 2011: While shopping in Venice, Lohan visits the Kamofie and Company jewelry store. She allegedly walks out with a “one of a kind” necklace, valued at $2,500, around her neck. A store clerk calls police to report it missing, triggering an investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.
February 1, 2011: The Los Angeles Police Department’s Pacific area obtains a search warrant to look in Lohan’s Venice apartment for the missing necklace. It is handed over to police by someone associated with the actress before the search could begin.
February 9, 2011: Lohan is taken back into custody after pleading not guilty to stealing a $2,500 necklace from the Venice jewelry store. Lohan is charged with felony grand theft by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Her arraignment is set for that afternoon.
February 23, 2011: Lohan makes her eighth court appearance in nine months for a hearing set by Judge Keith Schwartz. The hearing is scheduled to consider her probation after the theft charge.
March 10, 2011: Lohan’s ninth court hearing in 10 months occurs as the judge gives her two weeks to decide whether she’s going to accept a plea deal or move closer to taking the theft case to trial.
March 24, 2011: Lohan rejects a plea deal. A preliminary hearing is set for April 22, so a judge could hear evidence to determine whether the case should go to trial.
April 22, 2011: Lohan spends five hours in custody before posting a $75,000 bail after being sentenced to 120 days in jail for violating her drunken driving probation by being charged with theft. She is also ordered to perform 480 hours of community service. Her felony theft charge, however, is reduced to a misdemeanor.
May 6, 2011: Lohan begins community service at the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles.
May 11, 2011: At a hearing that Lohan was not required to attend, her lawyer enters a no contest plea — equivalent to a guilty plea — to the misdemeanor shoplifting theft charge on her behalf. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner sentences her to a 120-day sentence and 480 hours of community service for a necklace theft charge, to run concurrently with the probation violation sentence. A probation report released by the court says that despite several months in court-ordered drug rehab the previous year, Lohan “appears to be continuing to struggle with substance abuse issues.”
May 26, 2011: Lohan reports to a Los Angeles jail to begin serving her theft sentence. She is fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet and released to serve her time in house arrest.
June 23, 2011: A failed alcohol test during home confinement forces Lohan back to court, but the judge acknowledges that she failed to renew the random alcohol and drug testing as part of her probation.
June 29, 2011: Lohan is released from home confinement 35 days after she began serving her sentence for misdemeanor theft and probation violation. Lohan must resume work on the 480 hours of community service ordered as part of her sentence, including 360 hours at the Los Angeles Downtown Women’s Center and 120 hours at the county morgue.
July 21, 2011: A probation hearing shows that Lohan’s in compliance with her community service, fines and shoplifting counseling requirements. However, Lohan had not signed up for the court-ordered psychological counseling.
October 19, 2011: Lohan has her probation revoked after she fails to perform her community service obligations. After being briefly detained, she gets out after posting $100,000 bail.
October 20, 2011: Lohan arrives late and misses her first day of community service at the Los Angeles County morgue, one day after a judge rebuked her for similar failures. The coroner’s office gives her a second chance to appear on time the next day.
November 2, 2011: Sautner orders Lohan to serve a 30-day jail term for violating her probation on a necklace theft conviction by missing community service work. After the jail time, the actress must work at least 12 days a month at the county morgue until she completes the 53 remaining days on her court-ordered community service and she must attend 18 psychotherapy sessions. If Lohan misses any of those goals, she will be returned to jail for another 270 days, the judge rules. If she stays on track, her probation will be eased on March 29, 2012.
November 7, 2011: Lohan is released from jail just hours after she was booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California.
March 14, 2012: Lohan is accused of allegedly sideswiping a person with her car outside a Hollywood hotspot and then fleeing the scene. L.A. prosecutors decline to prosecute, citing “no direct evidence.”
March 29, 2012: Lohan finally completes the probation in her DUI case and is placed on informal probation for the necklace theft.
October 10, 2012: Cops respond to a disturbance call at the Long Island, N.Y. home where Lindsay is staying with her mother, Dina Lohan, after the two allegedly have a heated altercation. No charges are filed, however.
November 29, 2012: Lindsay Lohan was arrested again after police said she hit a woman in the face during an argument at a New York City lounge. The New York Police Department said that Lohan, 26, was taken into custody outside the nightspot and charged with third-degree assault in the incident.
December 3, 2012: The IRS seized Lohan’s bank accounts to repay what’s turned out to be a massive debt. She reportedly owes the IRS $234,000 in unpaid taxes from 2009 and 2010, and possibly more for 2011. Charlie Sheen, with whom she filmed a cameo for Scary Movie 5, reportedly lent her $100,000 to help with her money troubles.
January 2013: Lohan and her new lawyer are scheduled to appear in front of Judge Stephanie Sautner for her first hearing on new misdemeanor charges of lying to authorities and reckless driving, stemming from a car accident last summer on the Pacific Coast Highway. Lohan was not going to appear, claiming she was too ill to travel but when paparazzi caught pictures of her shopping, she figured she better get to LA and fast.
January 2013: Lohan receives an offer to appear on Dancing with the Stars for $550,000 and turns it down because she doesn’t want to appear on reality TV. Lohan still owes hundreds of thousands in back taxes and a hefty loan to Charlie Sheen.
January 30, 2013: Judge Stephanie Sautner scheduled several future court dates to work out the starlet’s string of legal issues. Sautner scheduled for the case to be brought back into court on March 1, and again on March 18 if it goes to trial. Lohan is not required to attend the pretrail hearing on March 1, but the judge clarified she must be present on March 18.
To wrap it all up, Lohan has been in jail six times, 35 days on house arrest, been to rehab five times and been in six car crashes.
