Strapped Lindsay Had Trouble Posting $300K Bail

By Rob Shuter Posted Sep 27th 2010 08:45AM

Lindsay Lohan was released from jail after only 12 hours late Friday, however, sources tell me it nearly didn't happen when Judge Patricia Schnegg set bail at a whopping $300,000.

"Lindsay hasn't earned that sort of money in a long time," a family insider tells me. "There was a moment when the family honestly thought Lindsay wasn't going to be released because they didn't have that amount of money available to post bail."

My source tells me it would have been a "tragedy" if, after all her lawyer's hard work, Lindsay would have had to stay locked up just because of family money issues.

In the "good news" department, Lindsay is heading back to a live-in rehab facility outside Los Angeles rehab this week. Voluntarily, I might add. She dominated headlines going into last weekend, when she was taken into custody Friday, denied bail, then granted bail by day's end after Judge Schnegg overturned Judge Elden Fox's ruling.

Is she FINALLY heeding her father's pleas to sober up? In a statement to PopEater on Saturday, Michael said, "Hopefully, she will go into a rehab NOW, to keep her freedom, to show the judge that she is serious and to make the decision that will truly change her life for the better."

► Michael Lohan to PopEater: 'God Wanted' This For Lindsay

So whose fault is it that she doesn't have much green these days?

Lindsay hasn't been earning A-list cash for a long time, but she has continued to live the lifestyle of a major star. When I saw the troubled star recently in New York, she was wearing thousands of dollars in designer clothes and was being chauffeured around in a fancy car, all while staying at one of the city's most expensive hotels.

Many insiders have wondered how she paid for this while working so little in recent years.

"It's not a big secret that Lindsay needs money," a friend of the LiLo tells me. "She makes most of her cash selling stories or photographs to the magazines and tabloids, but that is nowhere near the sort of cash she used to earn as an actress. The real problem is that every penny she earns she spends. She's always buying new clothes and shoes from expensive stores. There's no one in Lindsay's life telling her she can't afford it. It's a problem almost as serious as her drug addiction."

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Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive

Lindsay Lohan Snapshots

Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive

Lindsay Lohan Snapshots

Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive

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Comments

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Monday 27 September

By Linda

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I am so sick and tired of these famous people getting off. If our child/children did what they were doing, our kids would be in jail... I say put this child in jail for 90 days (no special treatment)and in-house rehab for 90 days or so. Clean out her system, stop reporting on her and maybe she will survive.. Her parents are idiots, because they are NOT putting their hearts and souls into helping to save their child...

I thought she had no bail and HAD to do 30 days. When did that change?? Why the hell did she only stay 12 hours??

By rpaul20988

This makes such a joke of our court system when it applies (or fails to) the so called elite or special people.

California and illegals are elite.....

By Outlaw Josey Wales

Strapped for cash? She should be tied to a couple of posts and just strapped period!

By BigMikeD

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LOL, so unrealistic yet the concept is a satisfying one

By Chris Bernhardt

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There a much bigger problems in this world that should be making
headlines....sooooo tired of self-entitled celebs making news over their drug addictions...get a life EVERYONE that reads this
crap. IF everyone should just stop paying attention to mindless
crap.

By PatrickPain

I say leave her alone. She is old enough to do what she wants as long as she isn't hurting anyone else.

Tuesday 28 September

By Norm Pattee

I have never seen a sucsessful drug addict.

By papi looie

she's going to start acting again, she just got a contract with really kings for 300K,

By Dmollykins

While her dad is speaking of God, he also needs to listen to His whisperings. He wants dad and his ex-wife to seek gainfull employment, stop leeching off Lindsay, and for her mother to stop pimping out the youngest daughter.

By Ron

He is not leeching. L.L has nothing to do with him. He is using her name to try to get attention and money, but it is not directly from her. Her mother is the leech, he is just a moron looking for attention

By Julie

Lindsay having to stay in jail would be a "tragedy?!" No, a tragedy is when a natural disaster takes the lives of hundreds, or people die as a result of another person's stupidity in a traffic accident. An overrated wannabe star going to jail because she can't or won't control herself to is NOT a tragedy!

By Katie1723

My source tells me it would have been a "tragedy" if, after all her lawyer's hard work, Lindsay would have had to stay locked up just because of family money issues.........

I wouldn't have given her the money.Since when is her family responsible for HER actions?

By Lynn

You know what, who cares. Can we not hear about someone else for a change.

By Dave

She broke the conditions of her parole. She should be in jail.

By ahknee

Lindsay Lohan is a teenage wasteland. Parent's are pathetic. Stop printing about the dumb**s and let her realize no one cares!

By nicepar4

Who really cares about this waste of protoplasm!! People are so vane who report this crap. There are millions of other worthy stories out there! This just in Lindsey spilled cocaine on her Gucci purse and has to seek psych care to deal with it.... Seriously Lindsey, Paris, the porn girl Kardashian, Montana Fishburne... who cares about worthless people who contribute absolutely nothing to American culture

By mytwocents

Why do you have to keep making stories about her every move? Just stop!! People like this crave this kind of attention. Don't you get that? Of course you only care about a story. I am sick of seeing her face in the news. Find something else to write about. As if that will happen...what a screwed up world we live in.

By Chris M

What's going to happen to her when people are sick of hearing about her, that we don't ever want to see her on the big screen again?

I believe that's what is happening here.

By Earl

Lohan
Is yesterdays news soon we will read about her death then AOL will have to find another drughead to write about. Same bullcrap different day WHO CARE'S about this piece of trash

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