DIVA: Lohan
Her party-animal lifestyle, attention-seeking stunts such as pole-dancing with Kate Moss, and feuds with fellow celebs have become legendary. And this week she secured her title as the latest bad girl in showbiz by driving a movie mogul to distraction for failing to turn up for work.
Flame-haired Lindsay - who earns £11million a year and has been making movies since she was 11 - was accused of behaving like a "spoiled child" by James G Robinson, the 70-year-old producer of her latest movie, Georgia Rule.
He angrily dismissed her "bogus excuses" of heat exhaustion and illness and blamed her "all-night partying" for her unreasonable behaviour on set.
"To date, your actions have been discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional," Robinson wrote in a sternly-worded letter accusing Lindsay of delaying filming.
"You have acted like a spoiled child and in doing so have alienated many of your co-workers and endangered the quality of this picture. Moreover, your actions have resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. We will not tolerate these actions any further."
The reprimand prompted Lindsay to return to the set - but it didn't stop her partying hard again last weekend.
She went shopping in Malibu before jetting off to Las Vegas to enjoy the nightlife with her boyfriend Harry Morton, 25, whose dad Peter runs the Hard Rock restaurant chain. They then headed back to Morton's beach house where she was later seen frolicking in the Pacific in a skimpy blue bikini.
It's a clear indication that Lindsay, who shot to fame in Mean Girls, Freaky Friday and Herbie: Fully Loaded, is unlikely to change her ways any time soon. In fact, she seems determined to carry on doing exactly what she wants.
"I've worked very hard for a long time now and I've been very disciplined about my career," says Lindsay. "Going clubbing is my way of relaxing and releasing a lot of stress."
It is her habit of burning the candle at both ends that sparked Robinson's furious letter.
Four hours before she collapsed with "exhaustion" on set last week and was taken to hospital, Lindsay was seen out with her friend Nicole Richie, 24, and other pals at LA hotspot Guy's Bar. They had knocked back bottles of Corona beer and vodka cocktails before hitting the dancefloor and belting out karaoke numbers.
AT hospital, the doctors warned her to go home and rest but she ignored their advice and was back out the same night at the Il Sole restaurant with Harry.
It is not the first time that Lindsay's hectic social life has taken its toll on her health. In 2004 she was hospitalised with "exhaustion" while recording her first album, Speak.
"I was so tired and I wasn't eating or sleeping right," she said. "Instead of resting I was going out with my friends dancing or out for dinner at night, I wasn't taking time to stay at home and relax.
"I felt like I was missing out on something. Los Angeles does that to you. When you hear everyone is going out, you think, 'Oh, what if something happens and I'm not out?'"
Despite these health scares she has refused to slow down. She is regularly snapped tumbling out of nightclubs in LA, New York and London in the early hours of the morning with fellow party girls Paris Hilton, Kate Moss, the Olsen twins or Kimberley Stewart.
Her revealing outfits, with sexy undies on show, grab just as much attention as her wild child antics. In January she stunned the clientele of a New York strip joint by performing a saucy pole-dance with Kate Moss, before kissing the 31-year-old supermodel. The pair then ordered trays of vodka, beer and cocktails while enjoying lap-dances by the club's girls.
Worryingly, Lindsay sees Moss - who is 12 years her senior and went into rehab after being exposed by the Daily Mirror as a cocaine user - as her "icon".
But she vehemently denies taking drugs, except for having dabbled with cannabis in the past, saying she has seen the destructive way cocaine has affected her father, Michael.
Also in January she was taken to hospital in London after cutting herself while staying at Canadian rocker Bryan Adams's home. Earlier that night she had partied until 3.30am with Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson at a Kensington club.
And last month, Lindsay celebrated her 20th birthday with two parties - one for 100 friends in California, and two weeks days later she threw an Independence Day beach party.
Along with the fast-living, she has acquired a reputation for demanding diva-like behaviour. On a recent stay in London she ordered two cases of Arizona Pomegranate Green tea to be delivered to her suite at the swanky Dorchester. And she reportedly threw a tantrum in 2004 after missing a flight to New York from LA.
She has also become known for celebrity pats. She famously fell out with actress ilary Duff after they both dated hearthrob Aaron Carter.
Duff said: "I know so many stories about her that I could tell but I'm not going to because I don't think people should know." Another rift developed with pop star Avril Lavigne after Lohan ridiculed her on a US chat show.
Meanwhile her lovelife has kept everyone guessing. She has been romantically linked with a dizzying list of men, including Bruce Willis, Christian Slater, Colin Farrell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Wilmer Valderrama, McFly's Harry Judd, Jared Leto, Leo DiCaprio and Sean Lennon.
And her changing shape has sparked rumours of an eating disorder. Fans were so shocked when she lost two stone after making Herbie, that they launched an online petition, "Please Lindsay, Eat!" and in January she confessed she had eating disorder bulimia
"I was making myself sick," she told Vanity Fair, in an interview she later retracted. "My arms were disgusting, so thin."
Lindsay, who was signed to Ford modelling agency at the age of three, can trace her troubles back to a turbulent family life. Her parents' relationship was rocky and violent - her mum Dina, 43, claims that husband Michael first attacked her the night they got engaged.
SHE recalls coming home from making her firstt film, The Parent Trap, when she was 11 to find that her father was "away".
He had been sent to prison for four years for stock fraud. It was the beginning of a series of run-ins he had with the police.
In 2000, Dina requested a protection order against Michael, 45, after filing for divorce. He phoned her 150 times in 24 hours until she called the police and he was sent back to jail. Now Lindsay has severed all ties with her Irish dad - a former Wall Street trader who built up and then sold the family's multi-million dollar pasta business. He is currently serving four years in New York's Collins Correctional Facility for crimes including attacking his brother-in-law with a shoe and driving while twice the legal limit. He pleaded guilty in May 2005 to drink driving, attempted assault, aggravated harassment and criminal contempt. He also admitted threatening another brother-in-law and to criminal contempt for breaking a court restraining order.
Lindsay poured out her heart about her troubled relationship with her dad in her music video for Confessions Of A Broken Heart. It told the story of a girl asking her father: "If you loved us, why did you do all these things?"
Her parents split later that year and Lindsay missed the UK premiere of Herbie: Fully Loaded to be at the court hearing of their messy divorce.
"He has never done anything for my family or for my career," she said. "I don't have any respect for someone who has treated my mother the way he has and by not being a responsible father. There were so many times in the past where he would just disappear for several days and we'd all be frantic with worry." Fortunately, her mum - a former cabaret dancer who is now Lindsay's manager - has always been there for her. And true to form, Dina has leapt to her defence after seeing her daughter admonished by that stinging letter. "On the set it was 105 degrees," said Dina. "And she has bronchial asthma. So any extreme heat or cold, she can't breathe... My daughter is a wonderful child. She will win an Academy Award for this picture."
If, that is, it ever gets finished. During the rest of shooting, Lindsay's older co-star Jane Fonda has agreed to take the young starlet under her wing and try to curb her wayward ways. She certainly has her work cut out.
A producer accused Lindsay of acting like a spoiled child
c.raymond@mirror.co.uk
High maintenance. Remind me - what was it Jared Leto saw in her ?
Oh yeah...
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