She entered a "not guilty" plea in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, but Lindsay Lohan would consider taking a deal if no prison time were involved in the bargain, according to her attorney.
"Ms. Lohan maintains her innocence, and now that I've seen the police reports, I believe the case is entirely defensible," Shawn Chapman Holley told CNN. "Having said that, we will entertain a discussion concerning a plea if it means no jail so that she can move forward with her recovery and her career."
The Mean Girls star, 24 stands accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace from a Venice, Calif. jewelry store on January 22. If convicted she faces up to three years in prison.
Lohan, whose probation for a 2007 DUI conviction was revoked, was released yesterday after posting 10 percent of the $40,000 bail ordered by Judge Keith Schwartz. The next hearing on the matter is February 23.
Reality TV starlet Tila Tequila attended the "Gathering of the Juggalos" concert - which included acts like Insane Clown Posse - in Hardin County, Illinois over the weekend and, according to her, was attacked onstage...
Concertgoers apparently threw everything at Tila, like rocks, beer bottles, firecrackers and even feces.
Law officials declined to go into detail (citing HIPAA privacy laws) but Hardin County Sheriff Tom Seiner confirmed Tequila complained of said injuries. A witness tells CNN that Tila was "taunting" the crowd. "She didn't know how to handle them. She took her top off and they got really violent."
CNN iReporter Chris Morrow caught up with "The Hills" star Kristin Cavallari at San Diego Comic Con. Cavallari, who was at an event to accept an award for trendsetter of the year, offered a few tidbits of advice for recently incarcerated star Lindsay Lohan:
"Even, like, when it comes down to parking tickets, pay your parking tickets on time!" says Cavallari. "Just make sure everything is taken care of so that things doesn't follow you and then all of a sudden you're knee-deep in DUIs or parking tickets or whatever it is. Handle everything as it comes in."
Cavallari, who's no stranger to the tabloids, also tells Lohan to try to ignore the media frenzy around her case as much as she can. "It's extremely frustrating, but...at the end of the day, there's no point in getting really upset about it because there's nothing that you can do."
"That's why I actually got a Twitter, too," she adds. "To have some sort of a voice in the media. Which helps, a little bit, but ultimately it really doesn't do anything. They're still just going to write whatever they want."
'The Hills' star Heidi Montag made waves with her first ever vocal performance at last year's Miss Universe pageant, even earning a passionately scornful review on CNN - a review that the singer adored. Montag told us exclusively in August, "I am so incredibly flattered that [Anderson Cooper] is talking about me." We spoke again to the female half of dynamic reality duo Speidi for this week's release of her full-length debut, 'Superficial'. Montag explains how her naughty lyrics get her going, why girls shouldn't make out with each other to catch a boy's eye - and which team she picks in the Leno/Conan debacle. Listen to a track from Montag's CD, and check out the interview after the jump.
On recording 'Superficial': "I put all the money that I had into this. I started out independently. It took me three years - albums nowadays take a month, they rush them and put them out, but I really wanted to go back to the days of the Beatles and the days of Elvis, and Michael Jackson, when they used to spend years on their albums, 'cause they wanted the quality to be so great. So the listener gets the best quality possible. Because I did it independently, I learned so much more. I wanted to go through it and experience the entire music industry."
"Most singers are just handed the song and they sing it and put it on their album. I was there with the lyrics, I was there with the mixing and the mastering - so many behind-the-scenes processes that a lot of singers don't even know go into their albums. I was very hands-on with every single detail of my album. I paid for all of it, so ... I put my life and soul and everything into it. I'm just excited for people to hear it. It's such a blessing."
"I've been called superficial, and that's not who I am - that's just the surface, it's just the beginning of who I am. For me, [the album title] is kind of a double entendre, and it's more about... you're just seeing the surface, and you don't know much about me."
On the Heidi Montag sound: "This is music of the future. This is the 2010 sound. Britney's voice, everybody's voice, is starting to me more of that autotune-y kind of sound, but a lot of my songs don't have that. Some of them do and some of them don't - it's just more fun. All my music has so much love in it and so much fun ... The most important thing to me is that people feel good when they listen to it ... There's so much darkness in the world right now, I just wanted to bring some light and some fun into it."
On kids today: "I think there's a lot of girls out there now [experimenting sexually just to get attention], and I would say that might be ... a bad influence. If that's real and that's how you feel, that's great, but not when it's just for attention ... it's very sad to me, it really breaks my heart, because I didn't grow up that way. It's very disheartening to me. [Any one woman] should be sexier than ten women making out. I feel more powerful than if I were making out with ten women, just kissing my husband once, because I'm secure and confident ... You should only do things that you want. Teenage girls don't need to do that just to get a guy's attention. There are other ways ... the pressures to be [sexually adventurous] just for attention are unfair to women. I think it's a step back in female empowerment. It makes them... toys. These are real women with real emotions."
"My point in these songs - you don't have to be that way. You don't have to be the way society wants you to be. You're a strong female, whoever you are. Its your light inside that counts, and that's what's going to attract whatever you want in the world and whoever you want in the world."
On her sexy lyrics... like "Come eat my panties off of me": "I love it. I'm a very sexual person and I'm married, so it's okay. I think every woman ... has an alter ego. We all have that really sexual, fun side. I just thought the lyrics were so fun and so sexy. They empower women. That song, when my friends hear it, they feel sexier. They have more fun, because the song is like, 'I'll do whatever you want, but I'm still kind of in charge here.' The lyrics are definitely a little edgy - and I'm sorry to the little girls - but I am married. Eat the panties off when you're married."
On 'The Hills' vs. 'Jersey Shore: "'The Hills' and 'Jersey Shore' could never be compared - first of all, 'The Hills' is in LA. I truly enjoy it, I think it's entertainment. I like the show a lot. I think the 'The Hills' is just picking up again. I think it's a whole new era."
"[Jersey Shore] has definitely taken reality to a while new level. I've never seen a girl get punched - I've never even seen a catfight. I felt very bad for it, but these people are very entertaining and it seems like they all have great hearts. Good for them. I could definitely see it being on for a few seasons, and I hope for them it does spin off into bigger careers."
On whom she prefers - Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien: "They were both extremely polite to me. They both came in and said hi several times. My only thing I would say is that Leno's audience was a lot nicer than Conan's. The guys are both unbelievable entertainers, they're both very funny, they're both incredible at what they've done - I would say congratulations to both of them for even being in it this long. I'm team both of them. They couldn't have been nicer or more accommodating when I was on their shows."
We always knew that Anderson Cooper was the silver fox, but we never knew just how sharp his claws were! Thanks to Heidi Montag and her Miss Universe performance, Anderson was ready to pounce and did just that, tearing Heidi (wife of our pal Spencer Pratt) to shreds, saying she has found a "fresh new way to embarrass herself."
Cooper put the hard news on hold this week to dedicate two minutes to eviscerating Montag and her performance, starting off his rant with the following: "I don't really know who this person is, nor why she is pretending to be a singer nor why anyone should listen to her, but apparently she's famous."
He continued, saying that Montag is "so famous she actually Twitters.... And she Twittered to congratulate herself. She tweeted she had so much fun, and she also thanked God. I don't think God had anything to do with this production."
