ROUGH NIGHT: Lindsay’s wild time with fellow partier Christian LaBella (above) ended in violence at her W hotel suite off Union Square after she demanded he erase cell pics.
W hotel (Michael Hicks)
ROUGH NIGHT: Lindsay’s wild time with fellow partier Christian LaBella (left) ended in violence at her W hotel suite off Union Square after she demanded he erase cell pics. (
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Another night on the town — another visit with cops for Lindsay Lohan.
The troubled actress yesterday accused a young congressional aide of choking her at a trendy Manhattan hotel after he sneakily took photos and video of her with a cellphone — but cops brushed off her account and refused to file charges.
It was Lohan’s second recent encounter with the law in Manhattan — she was accused of hitting a man with an SUV and fleeing the scene about two weeks ago.
At around 3 a.m. yesterday, Lohan and several pals hit the 1Oak club on West 17th Street, where Christian LaBella, 25, a hunky low-level aide to Republican Illinois Rep. John Shimkus, sidled up to one of her lackeys to get close to the star, sources said.
After about an hour, the group left for Lohan’s suite on the 15th floor of the W Hotel on Park Avenue South near Union Square.
They partied there until 5:45 a.m. when Lohan, 26, started playing around with LaBella’s phone and found pictures and videos of her he’d taken that night, the sources said.
She became furious and demanded LaBella — who flaunts pictures of himself on Facebook with everyone from VP candidate Paul Ryan to Kim Kardashian — delete them, but he refused, police sources said.
The pair tussled over the phone in a bedroom, leaving Lohan with scratches on her hands as he threw her on the bed, she said, sources said. She then locked herself in the bathroom with the phone.
When she emerged, she fled into the hallway and down the stairwell with her entertainment booker, Claus Hjelmbak.
That’s where, Lohan claims, LaBella choked her from behind before Hjelmbak pried him off and LaBella fled.
The “Mean Girls” star yanked on a fire alarm and called 911.
LaBella, unable to use an elevator because they had all been disabled when the alarm went off, was stopped by cops in the stairwell.
Just before that, “I heard a ghastly scream,” said David Gilbey, who had a room on the same floor as Lohan.
LaBella insisted to cops that he was simply trying to retrieve his phone and that he never took any photos or assaulted Lohan. “They thought I took pictures, but I didn’t,’’ he told officers, sources said.
Despite her camp’s claim that she suffered minor injuries, no marks were found on Lohan, the sources added.
Police filed no charges, but simply took cross harassment complaints from both parties.
Cops did not know whether he actually took the pictures because he refused to let them see his camera and they decided not to pursue a warrant since no one was criminall charged, the sources said.
Lohan ducked out of the W yesterday. Her mom, Dina Lohan, said, “She is home with me safe. Very shaken up!”
The actress’ rep, Steve Honig, called the lack of charges “outrageous.”
Lohan has a history at 1Oak, where she was accused of swiping a mink coat in 2008.
She’s on probation for taking a necklace from an LA jeweler. Her latest high jinks are not expected to affect her probation.
A friend of Lohan’s said the paparazzi-weary actress has regular photo freakouts given her bad rep, saying, “She’s just so paranoid about anybody taking photos.”
LaBella — who describes himself on the Web as a former child actor whose aunt is comedian Heather McDonald, a “Chelsea Lately” writer — is a part-time DC staffer on track to earn less than $30,000.
Shimkus’ office said, “Obviously, the congressman does not condone his actions.”
Additional reporting by Beth DeFalco, Emily Smith, Helen Freund and Amber Sutherland