Once again, Lindsay Lohan has taken to Twitter to rail against someone who’s wronged her. But this time, it’s George Lopez. The comedian made a joke about the curious white powder (which Linds said was baby powder — photo above) that surrounded her feet Saturday night (March 27 2010).
Lindsay was not amused:
@georgelopez thanks for the childish comment regarding baby powder in my shoes to loosen up the leather* don’t you have kids? U wouldn’t wanna hear that about them, or would you? Act like a grown man, have some respect and dignity for yourself.
George responded Lindsay attacks inviting her to come to his show to clarify things, later Lopez confirmed via his Twitter that LiLo accepted his invitation is coming to his show next Tuesday (April 6 2010), Check out his Tweets:
Come on the show … I’ve met you before and don’t have anything against you. you want me to stop talking about you I will … Come and tell me … To my face … I’ll stop !! Respectfully.
Here’s the latest @lindsaylohan is scheduled to appear on Lopez Tonight next tuesday .. Chill ! Lindsay’s a great sport… She’ll be on the show next week. It’s all good!
AllHeadlineNews.com: Lindsay Lohan could possibly be blacklisted by the Indian government after her trip to the country last December to report on child labour and trafficking of women. The actress has falsely claimed that she rescued 40 child workers.
The “Mean Girls” actress made comments to Indian officials during the documentary that highlight the struggle of child labourers, but then Lohan was discovered to have broken the country’s visa rules by travelling as a tourist whilst working for the BBC.
Lohan updated her micro blogging site, Twitter, boasting that she had a role in a raid on a child labour sweatshop and claimed that the experience was life changing. The child star tweeted: “Over 40 children saved so far … Within one day’s work … This is what life is about … Doing THIS is a life worth living!!!”
Lohan later tweeted: “Focusing on celebrities and lies is so disconcerting, when we can be changing the world one child at a time … hope everyone can see that.” However, the activists leading the raids said that Lohan did not arrive in India until after the raids had taken place.
After Lohan’s comments she might not be able to visit India again after officials discovered that she had not applied for a work visa. As well as this, the activists have criticized Lohan’s comments and senior civil servants in New Delhi are studying the case to determine whether she will be added to the immigration blacklist.
DailyFinance.com: Oprah, Madonna, Prince . . . Lindsay? Colorful starlet Lindsay Lohan says she’s in the same league as those single-named iconic entertainers — and that’s why she’s entitled to $100 million from E-Trade (ETFC) for violating her privacy last month in a TV commercial during the Super Bowl.
But Lindsay — er, Lohan — faces a significant burden of proof. “To prevail in a case like this, she would need a consumer survey that is methodologically sound, showing that a significant number of people understand ‘Lindsay’ to be a reference to her,” says Reed Freeman, a partner at Washington-based law firm Morrison Foerster. “That’s the method of proof that would be required here.”
But celebrity lawyer Daniel Horowitz says the ad’s use of the word “milkaholic” is obviously a reference intended to poke fun at Lohan’s personal struggles. “It’s clearly meant to refer to Lindsay Lohan,” Horowitz says. “And the only way E-Trade will get off the hook is if they claim it was some kind of parody.” Interestingly, one of Horowitz’s clients is a man accused of breaking into Lohan’s house, as part of the “Hollywood Bling Ring” case.
Lincoln Bandlow, a partner at Los Angeles-based law firm Lathrop & Gage, says the big hurdle for Lohan is showing that this is a use of her identity, one which violates her privacy. “I don’t think it is,” Bandlow says. “She’s not Sinatra, she’s not Cher, and she’s not Bono.”
But even if she succeeds in doing that, Bandlow says, she then must make an “odd argument,” one which could lead to embarrassing disclosures. “She’s going to have to say that she’s such a lush and an alcoholic that the use of the word ‘milkaholic’ obviously refers to her,” Bandlow says. “The identifying information she will have to cite is someone who is an addict.”
The star of such films as Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded is suing the giant online brokerage for unlawfully using her “likeness, name, characterization, and personality.” Lohan filed the suit in New York State’s Nassau County Supreme Court Monday, seeking $50 million of compensatory damages and $50 million of exemplary damages. An E-Trade representative says the company has yet to review the filing and has no comment.
In the commercial in question, part of E-Trade’s popular campaign featuring babies who chat about investments and life, an infant refers to “that milkaholic, Lindsay.” Lohan’s troubles with drugs and alcohol and scuffles with the law have been widely chronicled by the celebrity press.
Lohan’s argument hinges on a court’s accepting her contention that her worldwide fame — or notoriety, if you prefer — has turned her first name into a specific, recognizable reference to the her, much like “Oprah” or “Madonna.” “Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit,” Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, told the New York Post.
