Lindsay Wants $1 Million for First Post-Jail Interview

You can bet Lindsay Lohan will have plenty to say when she's sprung from the joint later this summer, but if you want her for a TV interview you'd better have deep pockets! Sources tell me that deals are already in the works to secure Lindsay's first post-jailhouse chat for a whopping $1 million. You heard right, a cool mil!
"Financially, it's the best thing that could have ever happened to Lindsay," a magazine insider tells me. "It's no secret that Lindsay has been in financial trouble for a while. She will earn more money from her post-prison interview than she ever earned acting."
Lindsay is not the first celebrity to turn her troubles into a cash cow.
The New York Post reported that Paris Hilton was offered a million dollars for her post-prison interview back in June 2007. After a public outcry, however, several media outlets ultimately decided not to pursue Paris, forcing her to give her interview away to CNN's Larry King for free.
Paid interviews, while routine in Europe, are still taboo here in the USA. The way major networks get around this is by engaging in "licensing" deals that provide compensation for the rights to personal material, most often video footage or photos.
Sources tell me that this is exactly the type of arrangement Lindsay is looking for.
"Expect to see a major TV and magazine deal," a source close to Lindsay tells me. "Lindsay might have made a lot of mistakes, but she knows how much her first interview is worth. She won't even consider offers of less than $1 million."
Dan Wakeford, editor-in-chief of Life & Style magazine, explains to me why Lindsay's first interview is worth so much. "It's everyone's primal fear to go to jail or have a child go to jail."
Candace Trunzo, editor-in-chief of Star, believes that the appeal is part of the public's fascination with Lohan. "For better or worse, we're invested in Lindsay. We've watched her self-destruct for years, always anticipating the worst."
However, Michelle Lee, InTouch Weekly's editor-in-chief, warns, "I think her first post-prison interview will get a lot of attention, but it depends how long she actually ends up staying behind bars! At the same time, Lindsay always seems to have an excuse, so it would be interesting to see if she finally tells the full truth."
And what that truth is ultimately worth to Lindsay is far more than $1 million dollars.
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Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
After spending all day in the salon, Lindsay Lohan emerged, sporting a strawberry blonde do. May 25, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan Snapshots
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I think it's sickening and disgusting that Lindsey Lohan should profit from her experience of going to jail for breaking her probation. It flies directly in the face of what she told the judge about taking this seriously, and now she's using this to profit from it. I hope she breaks probation again, and goes to prison for a long time, like Robert Downey Jr. did.
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Linsey Lohand fans = losers
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I thought there were laws that said a person could not make money for a crime ?
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I thought you could not profit from going to jail. I sincerely hope no one wants badly enough to hear what she has to say to pay her that kind of money. That is disgusting.
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Cool...I'd gladly go to jail for 90 days (or less) if there was a million dollar payday at the end of it. Go Lindsey!
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Why is it legal to profit from a jail sentence?
And is there any hope for this girl to get any rehabilitation when all she's focused on is a post jail interview? She still has no idea she has a problem!!!!
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I wish see would just go away,Does anyone really care.
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Why pay HER a mil when you can get the same news from a jailhouse snitch for far less??
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Hay, maybe being a party person and go to court with a high profile attory might be a good idea. If there going to pay that kind of dollars to have to story to print in there mag. and such. We all should boycot those mag if they do the interview.
Beside who care how she feels when she get out of jail. She got off easy with the time see getting to serve. she should have gotten 6 month for each one.
I see her a bolting the country and not go to jail at all.
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I WILL GIVE HER SOME PUNISHMENT AND POKE HER PINKEYE AND BUTTYHOE WITH MY TRUNK
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f her and the donkeys that produced her. Anyone whose expectation is to benefit from breaking the law should be exiled
to a dark and dank cave in the middle of nowhere where we won't have to see or hear from her again. Trailer trash is more appealing to me than this twit
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Do not pay/ all she wants is attention.
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And shame on anyone who pays it,, unless of course,,, there is lots of lesbian sex.
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Thats not alot of money for her. She should have a house paid for, collage degree,instead she is on perscriptions hard core drugs,she settles for a trashy movie role no house broke all for what ?
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Only in America can make this kind of money for being a totaly disfunctional NFL player or a disfunctional so called star. People really eat up this CRAP thats why the bucks role in FOR THE DUDU DODOS.
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She is a loser. Why does the media highlight people like this? Why does the media not focus on people or parties that continually help others in our society? People who do so much good instead of people who detract from society.
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All you Lindsay haters, what have you losers done lately. What a bunch of hypocrites.
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I think its worth the mil, parents teens & others are curious to know what questions will be asked, and look at Paris she hasnt been in anymore trouble since!
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On some level I hope she doesn't get any money from this. She shouldn't be rewarded for bad behaviour. She should realize she needs to grow up and take responsibility for her actions. What she's doing isn't funny, cute, or remotely intelligent. I hope she stops this bad behaviour and gets her priorities in order. Besides herself, she's hurting others with her actions.
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Poor Little Rich girl gonna make some money off of an interview? Let me know who they are so I can boycott them please. No matter what I won't buy their products, and you can bank on that statement.
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