Lindsay Lohan is facing a whole new type of courtroom drama, but this time it’s not because she’s been accused of theft or crashing her Porsche while questionably under the influence. Instead, TMZ tells us the starlet’s father, Michael Lohan, is reportedly asking a judge to appoint a Britney-Spears-style conservatorship over Lindsay.
Lohan’s dad doesn’t believe the troubled actress is capable of managing her own funds or making her own decisions. Michael Lohan also thinks Lindsay is surrounded by bad influences, including her mother Dina. Although his motives might seem suspect, Perez Hilton reports that Michael swears he’s not just looking to make some money off his daughter. In fact, he’s asking for the judge to appoint conservatorship rather than seek the position himself. Michael’s aggressive measures are coming on the heels of his recently failed intervention.
Last week, Michael attempted to ambush Lindsay at her Beverly Hills home with an intervention. New reports have surfaced stating that Michael wasn’t alone in thinking the star needed some help. TMZ claims that Michael Lohan was e-mailing with Lindsay’s entertainment lawyer, Dave Feldman, manager Evan Haney and criminal defense lawyer Shawn Holley for a month prior to the planned intervention, planning the whole thing out.
In an e-mail to Haney and Holley, Michael referred to his daughter’s upcoming Liz Taylor biopic and pleaded “She is AGAIN, taking pills to keep her up and to sleep (adderall)!! I even know that she is and was drinking during work as far back as ‘Liz and Dick!’ I am asking you to PLEASE PLEASE find a way to get her to LA toward the end of the first week of October or the beginning of the second so we can do an intervention and FINALLY end this madness!”
Ultimately, Lindsay’s handlers agreed to help with staging the intervention and even had intervention specialist Earl Hightower on board. Michael Lohan decided he wanted to talk to Lindsay one-on-one before bringing in his support group. Despite his best efforts to explain his actions, Lindsay wasn’t interested in hearing what her father had to say, and she called in the police before his backup had time to arrive.
Perez Hilton also reported that Lindsay was so incensed over her father’s meddling plans that she and her mother are currently in NYC trying to sort out a restraining order. As if that isn’t enough drama, ABC News released a statement from a rep that has Lindsay claiming her management team was not involved in the so-called intervention, and that her father is just using the publicity to gain fame for himself. Meanwhile, Lindsay’s mom Dina also seems to share that opinion.
Overall, it’s difficult to take Lindsay’s father seriously after some of the unsavory legal trouble he’s been involved in. Michael Lohan’s murky past includes indiscretions like fathering a child with a massage therapist in Montana while still married to Dina and being jailed for abusing his now ex-girlfriend, Kate Major. However, if her manager and lawyers really were on board with the intervention, it definitely raises some red flags. Her team knows her better than most, and if they think she needs some help then maybe this really has reached an escalated point. It will be interesting to watch this story unfold, and find out what her manager and lawyers really think about the star’s so-called problems.