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MONDAY AUGUST 13, 2007
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Lohans seek divorce after 20 years
BY FRANK ELTMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Ah, Long Island — land of Amy and Joey, birthplace of the bellocose Baldwin brothers, where Lizzie Grubman plowed her SUV through a night-club parking lot and Billy Joel slammed three cars into assorted inanimate objects.
Tabloid fodder, all — but with the Lohans of Merrick, the media mania is multiplied by three.
Daughter Lindsay seems headed for her third rehab stint this year following a California arrest on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession. Back home, "momager" Dina and rehab-prone dad Michael shuttle between Long Island courthouses, trying to end their two-decade marriage as cameras flash and videotape rolls.
Their last court appearance drew more than two dozen paparazzi, camera crews and reporters, all for a divorce case once thought settled two years ago. The Lohans are also battling over visitation issues involving Lindsay's younger siblings.
Press reports that Lohan had traveled to Long Island last weekend set off a local media frenzy, but on Monday no one had pinned down the starlet's location. Some reports had her in Utah while others had her holed up back in mom's Merrick home.
With a family like this, how could the celebrity media resist?
"I feel like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family," Lindsay told Allure magazine earlier this year. "And I was put between my mother and father a lot. Well, I would put myself between them to try and keep the peace, and I felt good doing that."
The 21-year-old strawberry blonde began modeling before kin-
dergarden, taking an exhilarating ride from suburban obscurity to Hollywood stardom. Yet even as her name graced movie marquees, she never quite escaped her dysfunctional upbringing.
"It was really to let girls, boys, anyone that's in an abusive relationship, anyone who is going through things like that ... to put it out there that it's OK to express how you feel," she told The Associated Press in December 2005.
Michael Lohan, a former Wall Street broker, married Donata "Dina" Sullivan in 1985. Matrimony soon turned to acrimony.
In the late 1980s, he was sentenced to four years in prison in a stock fraud case. He returned to jail
"I was put between my mother and father a lot.Well,I would put myself between them to try and keep the peace,and I felt good doing that."
Lohan directed a 2005 autobiographical music video, "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)," depicting a husband resembling Michael verbally abusing a blonde-haired beauty who could easily be mistaken for Dina. A child in a tutu (Lindsay's younger sister, Ali?) quakes in fear in an adjacent bedroom.
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him from seeing their children.
in 1998 after violating his probation by leaving the state to visit Lindsay on a California movie set. He received another 27 days in 2000 after violating an order of protection obtained by Dina to prevent
Two years ago, he was sentenced to 11/3 to 4 years in prison for drunken driving, brawling with his brother-in-law at a first communion party, and other charges. He was released in March 2007 and entered a Christian-based drug and rehabilitation center in West Babylon.
The born-again Lohan has repeatedly said his daughter needs to do the same.
Dina Lohan has told interviewers she considers herself a single parent, since Michael was behind bars for years. All four of her children tried show business, but it was the eldest who became a superstar with movies like "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
Dina became her combination mother and manager. Along the way, she's enjoyed enough reflected glow from her daughter's stardom to get a second-hand sunburn.
She worked for the syndicated "Entertainment Tonight" show as a red carpet "reporter," and claimed in bios that she was once a Radio City Rockette although the landmark theater says it has no record of her high-kicking on the big stage.
A Harper's Bazaar profile earlier this year, complete with provocative photos of the 40-something mom, found Dina boasting about living the American dream. And while she told George Clooney that she was Lindsay's assistant, rather than a parent, Dina insists she's no "party mom."
Yet Michael Lohan has insulted on a number of occasions that his estranged wife may have been drinking or using drugs, possibly with Lindsay — claims Dina has vehemently denied.
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Lopez wins $200,000 damages from ex
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Lopez has been awarded nearly $545,000 in a lawsuit against her first husband, Ojani Noa, over his plans to publish a tell-all book claiming she had several affairs.
A court-ordered arbitrator made the decision in April in Lopez's breach-of-contract lawsuit against Noa, court papers filed Monday indicated. The figure includes $200,000 in damages, with the rest going for arbitration costs and attorneys' fees.
Lopez's lawsuit claimed that Noa had violated a previous lawsuit settlement preventing him from revealing private information about their relationship.
The arbitrator also decided a permanent injunction should be awarded against Noa that would bar him from "criticizing, denigrating, casting in a negative light or otherwise disparaging or causing disparagement" to the singer-actress.
Noa also would be directed to give Lopez all copies of materials related to the book.