Jail Time Equals Big Payout for Lindsay Lohan

By PopEater Staff Posted Jul 13th 2010 09:14AM

While there are conflicting reports about how much Lindsay Lohan will make for her first post-jail interview, the numbers being discussed still prove she's going to have a huge payday. While she may not be a bankable movie star anymore, media outlets are flooding her with requests to talk to her after she's done in the slammer. PopEater's Rob Shuter previously reported that she was already working to secure a whopping $1 million for her first post-jailhouse chat.

Sources told Page Six, "The irony is Lindsay is in demand. The bidding is over $500,000 for the rights to the pre-jail interview, the prison diary and the first chat when she is released."

"But Lindsay is still convinced she'll get a reduced term -- even if she has to go to rehab afterwards for longer. She has spoken to a number of lawyers over the weekend. She's even seeing a psychic for guidance," the source added.

Lohan is not the first celebrity to turn her troubles into a paid gig. 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.

Although Lohan met with lawyer Stuart V. Goldberg after Shawn Chapman Holley resigned as the starlet's counsel, he has declined to take on Lohan's case, PEOPLE reports. Robert Shapiro, who defended OJ Simpson in his murder trial, had initially put in a bid to overturn her 90-day sentence, which is to start July 20.

"My impression of Lindsay is that she's a fragile lost child – a sleeping beauty with her head in the sand. I found her not fully forewarned of the consequence of her actions," Goldberg told PEOPLE. "I'm concerned that she's not disciplined or tethered enough to the reality of adult consequences," he adds. "She doesn't seem to have the awareness of what's going to befall her."

A judge sentenced Lindsay to 90 days in jail and 90 days of rehab after she broke her probation agreement from a 2007 DUI. Lindsay is expected to surrender for her 90-day jail sentence on July 20. PopEater's Rob Shuter reported that Lindsay plans to stay out of jail -- no matter what it takes.

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Tuesday 13 July

By dawg

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I say give her the million so she can buy ALOT of cocaine and maybe we will all get lucky and she will over dose and go away!!

By Terri

On your survey for Lindsay Lohan where's the button for WHO CARE'S....with everything else going on in the world she's not even news worthy!!!!!!

By marianne

I think both mother and daughter belong in jail together. they should really get to know each other for what they truly are "IDIOTS" and the mother trying to make a buck off daughter. so sad they derserve each other and should find a hideaway and get lost forever!!!! then we will have no more media idiots tracking them down hopefully. there is a flight going out to the planet Mars tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. pst.

By fkurtin

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Relax folks, it's all scripted from here on out, even the judge is a paid actor, all for trash tv,In the real world we have real problems to tend to, screw hollyweird land, nothing good there

By Koz

Hope she ends up in the general population and not some cushy room away from everyone.

By Julie

there is no way she should profit from any of this. Why doesn't the media instead make a contribution to a drug and alcohol treatment program?

By Susan

SHe needs to go to jail and it will help her grow up some,seeings her mother and father didn't teach her anything. SHe will be better off going to jail. She has no diciplin whatsoever in her life and it needs to start NOW- Put her away

By Hank

I thought California had laws against criminals' profiting from their wrongdoing -- for instance, laws preventing Charles Manson from writing a "tell-all." Shouldn't the same apply to pre- or post-jail interviews?

Lindsey gonna fall in love with a female inmate.....it was fate

By themeeker

I'm tired of reading the stories of Linzey Loman going to jail, I'm ready to read about her IN JAIL.

By ronoct12

Simply stop writing and reading about her. One will end the other and that will be the end of Lohan.

By kellie

this is disgusting. yet another celebrity getting paid millions for bad behavior. it's so unfair and such a slap in the face of decent, honest people who stay on the right side of the law and try to earn an honest living to support themselves and their families. when we will as the human race stop this horrendous abuse of money and the law? disgusting.

By Dianne

Everyone shoud boycott any article about her jail time. Who cares! I am sick of using our hard earned tax dollars to prosecute these drunks and druggies. We need to spend our money on something constructive. Instead of buying articles about her, donate that money to a homeless person or someone without a job and needs it to feed their kids.

By Kareen

Only in America would someone like Lindsay get rewarded for bad behaviour.

By erin

She doesn't need a psychic; she needs a psychiatrist!

By JT

I say give her the money now! She's gonna need it for protection. Or else the interview will be just her describing how her privates hurt.

You think there's anything private about her privates? They've seen more light than a born-again.

By JF

She has state she is giving any money from the interviews to an orphanage and charity in Guatamala!! She is a saint and a hero!

By Reed

I believe the media has more interest in this, I'll do what I want to do girl, than we the public do. You keep telling us she's got talent, I haven't seen it yet. How many years ago did she do something worthwhile and I'm not talking about getting her picture taken with third world children(exactly how did this help the children?).

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