New York Daily News: Lindsay Lohan is going to jail. An irate judge sentenced the sobbing “Mean Girls” star to 90 days behind bars Tuesday for violating her probation and branded her a serial liar.
Lohan received no sympathy from L.A. Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel, who found she violated probation on a pair of 2007 DUI busts.
An overwrought LiLo made a weepy last-ditch plea for freedom, bizarrely invoking her charity work with Moroccan children at one point.
“I’m not taking this as a joke,” the party-hearty actress said during a rambling speech in which she broke down twice.
“It’s my life. It’s my career. I’ve learned.”
An unmoved Revel sentenced the bewildered Lohan to three consecutive 30-day sentences – three times what prosecutors were seeking – to be followed by rehab.
“She comes and goes as she pleases,” said Revel. “There’s been a history of that. No excuses.”
Revel dismissed Lohan’s appeal for leniency as insincere, citing the “Freaky Friday” actress’ record of lying repeatedly about drinking and drugging.
“It’s like somebody who cheats doesn’t think they’re cheating until they get caught,” the judge said.
Prosecutor Danette Meyers charged Lohan had repeatedly thumbed her nose at the law.
The blond actress, ordered to attend weekly alcohol education meetings, skipped seven of the sessions in the past 27 weeks.
“Once, maybe, you’d have an excuse,” said Meyers. “Twice, an oversight. Three times, still haven’t caught her attention. . . . Seven times, the court is irrelevant to her.”
Lohan’s “excuses” for skipping her sessions ran the gamut from flight problems at a North Carolina airport to the death of her uncle – although she did not attend his funeral.
After Revel handed down the sentence – including 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab facility – Lohan wept loudly on the shoulder of lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley, while her father, Michael, and kid sister Ali cried in the courtroom.
Her father later said he was glad his daughter was sentenced to rehab, something she needed for a long time.
“These [prescription] drugs are killing my daughter and killing millions of kids in America and someone has to stop it,” he told RadarOnline in an emotional interview.
He said Lindsay “unfortunately is in a lost place in a lost world.”
The actress is headed for Los Angeles County’s Century Regional Detention Facility, an all-female jail that was a temporary home to inmates Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
She was ordered to surrender on the morning of July 20.
Once her jail time is done, she’ll start rehab, Revel said. And until she’s in jail, Lohan must keep wearing an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet.
The judge ordered Lohan to put on the bracelet in May, after she missed a progress hearing because she was partying at the Cannes Film Festival.
The bracelet registered a 0.03 blood-alcohol level on the night she attended the MTV Movie Awards and after-parties last month.
Lohan’s lawyer said her client’s missteps were not a sign of disrespect for the courts but the result of ignorance of the law.
“She is not someone who understands the nuances of the court system,” Holley said.
Revel, clearly annoyed, pointed out that Lohan had spent three years completing the education classes – which should take just 18 months.
“Something’s not right,” she said. “I couldn’t have made my orders more clear.”
The case stems from the three-year-old 2007 DUI arrests, including one in which Lohan drunkenly crashed her car into a Beverly Hills tree.
She wound up spending 84 minutes in jail, and was placed on probation. Lohan could again serve less than a full sentence because of prison overcrowding, said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the L.A. County sheriff.
