Lindsay Lohan is back to having financial woes.
The troubled actress is reportedly unable to pay her rent on time because she is “broke,” TMZ reports.
Her landlord sent her a legal notice notifying her that she must pay her two months of late rent or move out. As a result, Lohan reportedly paid the $23,000 she owes.
According to the website, the 23-year-old actress is not making any income because her substance abuse problems have left her with a slim chance of finding acting work.
Though the actress recently wrote on Twitter that she will soon begin working on a film, her IMDB profile lists Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming film, “Machete,” as the only project on her plate.
In the few days since TMZ published a story that friends and professionals are deeply afraid for Lindsay, the situation has become even more dire. There is still a strong feeling among them — even resignation — that Lindsay will die soon if she doesn’t get help, the website said..
There is deep frustration among the remaining people in Lindsay’s world that her mom, Dina, is enabling her daughter by insisting Lindsay is fine.
Susan Sarandon seems to be embracing her newly single status with gusto.
Sarandon, 63, recently visited the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu in Peru. At the top she was showered with confetti by local kids as she helped reopen the ancient citadel at the site after a two-month closure caused by flooding.
Sarandon, who recently split from longtime partner Tim Robbins, was among a select few who were invited to the opening, and traveled to the ancient site on a railway that was also reopened earlier this week.
Machu Picchu, at an elevation of 8,200 feet, is the main source of Peru’s tourist revenues, according to the country’s finance ministry.
A storm in January destroyed large sections of the rail line, killed seven people and cut off all access to the historic site.
Sarandon was joined by Peru’s Transport Minister, Enrique Cornejo, and the Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister, Martin Perez.
She was also traveling with her friend Jonathan Bricklin, 31, a co-owner of her New York club SPiN with whom she is said to be romantically involved with. She has refused to comment on the rumors.
Actor John Malkovich is seeking to recover $2.3 million from an account he had with the securities firm of Bernard Madoff.
The trustee liquidating Madoff’s firm in the wake of the biggest U.S. Ponzi scheme had approved a claim for only $670,000, saying Malkovich wasn’t entitled to more than what the actor had deposited.
John Malkovich’s filing calls the trustee’s finding on investor funds “contrary to fact.”
In August the trustee, Irving Picard, approved a claim for $670,000 for the actor’s pension plan and trust, more than $1.5 million short of the value of the securities in Malkovich’s account listed on his November 2008 final statement, attorneys for the actor said in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York.
Thousands of Madoff customers objected to Picard’s methodology for calculating what they are owed, arguing that he wrongfully set claims based on their cash deposits minus withdrawals instead of using the amounts on Madoff’s final account statements.
Picard, hired by Securities Investor Protection Corp. to repay victims of the $65 billion fraud, has said that using account statements to set claims would let the con man decide who gets what, and include profit from trades that didn’t really happen.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy blames a former cabinet member for spreading rumors of marital strife between him and his wife, Carla Bruni.
According to Britain’s Telegraph, Sarkozy believes former Justice Minister Rachida Dati started the hurtful gossip, and he took “retaliatory actions” against Dati by taking away her government-issued limousine and three bodyguards.
Dati confirmed the cars and bodyguards were removed, but said she didn’t believe Sarkozy gave the final order.
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