Lindsay Lohan starts 90-day jail sentence

Lindsay Lohan starts 90-day jail sentence

Lindsay Lohan, the Hollywood starlet, has begun a 90-day jail sentence after violating probation imposed for drink driving.

Police booking photo provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Lindsay Lohan on Tuesday July 20,2010.

Photo: AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Her incarceration marked a new low point for the troubled 24-year-old party girl who was once considered among the most talented actresses of her generation.

Lohan, star of The Parent Trap, Mean Girls, and Freaky Friday, was met by a swarm of cameras as she arrived at court in Beverly Hills to surrender herself for a sentence imposed two weeks ago.

She was accompanied by her mother Dina, younger sister Ali, and lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley. Her father Michael Lohan, with whom she has a strained relationship, was also in court.

The actress, dressed in dark sunglasses, a black suit and grey T-shirt, did not speak during the five minute hearing but looked tired and tense.

She did not cry when she was handcuffed and led away but her sister broke down in tears.

Judge Marsha Revel ordered that Lohan not be allowed to serve any of her sentence under house arrest or a work release scheme.

However, overcrowding in Los Angeles jails means she is unlikely to serve the full time period.

The LA Times reported that she may be released on August 2, after serving only 14 days.

Lohan had been on probation since August 2007 following a drink driving and cocaine arrest.

The judge determined two weeks ago that she had violated her probation by missing seven alcohol education classes since December and handed down the 90 day sentence, ordering it to start on July 20.

Last month Lohan had also missed a court appearance, claiming she had lost her passport while on a trip to the Cannes film festival. The judge issued an arrest warrant at the time but revoked it when bail was posted.

For the last month the actress has been wearing an alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet and submitting to random weekly drug and alcohol tests. She voluntarily spent the last week in a sober living facility in Los Angeles.

She will serve her sentence at the all-female, 2,200-bed Century Regional Detention Facility south of Los Angeles.

It has previously housed other starlets, including Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Michelle Rodriguez. Lohan was held there for 84 minutes in 2006.

She is expected to be kept in solitary for her own protection following reports that lesbian prison gangs may attack her.

She will live in a 12ft by 8ft cell and will have to wear an orange prison jumpsuit.

Lohan must also attend a 90-day rehabilitation course on her release from jail.

The night before surrendering to the court the former child star posted a message on her Twitter account, saying: "The only 'bookings' that I'm familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that I'd be 'booking' into Jail ... eeeks."

Lindsay Lohan begins 90 day jail

Lindsay Lohan has begun her 90 day jail term for violating her probation relating to a 2007 drug case.

Lindsay Lohan: downfall of a child star

Lindsay Lohan, the actress who started a 90-day jail sentence on Tuesday for drink driving and cocaine offences, was a child star who became an adult addict. Here is a brief resume of her life so far:

Born July 2, 1986, in New York, Lohan started modelling at age three. Her parents divorced in 2007. She made her film debut aged 11 in "The Parent Trap" (1989), playing both twin girls who scheme to reunite their estranged parents.

Made more than a dozen movies including "Freaky Friday," "Mean Girls," "Bobby" and "I Know Who Killed Me."

Recreated Marilyn Monroe's final photo shoot in a 2008 magazine spread that proved controversial because of its partial nudity.

Released two music albums and was hired by Emanuel Ungaro to design a (widely derided) fashion collection in 2009.

At age 17, Lohan was the youngest host of the MTV Movie Awards. Won 16 industry awards, including a Screen Actors Guild ensemble cast trophy for "Bobby," a 1999 Young Artist award, two MTV Movie awards and three 2007 worst actress Razzies.

Despite a formal scolding in 2006 for partying and late arrivals on the "Georgia Rule" film set, producer James G. Robinson later called Lohan "one of the most talented young women in the movie business today."

2007 saw Lohan arrested twice for driving and drug offences, and she entered rehab three times saying she is addicted to alcohol and drugs. Sentenced to one day in jail but spent only 84 minutes behind bars. Also placed on three years' probation, later extended by a year.

Lohan missed a court appearance in May 2010, claiming she had lost her passport while on a trip to the Cannes film festival. Judge issued an arrest warrant but revoked it when bail was posted.

May 24, 2010, Lohan ordered to wear an alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet and submit to random weekly drug and alcohol tests.

Sentenced on July 6 to 90 days in jail for violating her 2007 probation by missing multiple alcohol education classes. Lohan surrenders to court and starts sentence on July 20.