The party’s over for Lindsay Lohan!
The wayward “Mean Girls” star struck a jail-free plea bargain with Los Angeles prosecutors yesterday, but agreed to do 90 days locked inside a residential drug-rehab center.
A visibly exhausted Lohan, arriving , who flew all night from New York to make yesterday’s hearing, sported a flesh-colored tunic over white sheer trousers. Lohan nearly an hour late to the proceedings, pleaded no contest to reckless driving and lying to Santa Monica cops in connection with a big-rig fender-bender on the Pacific Coast Highway last year.
Those crimes wouldn’t carry jail time under ordinary circumstances — but Lohan was still under terms of probation from a 2011 jewelry theft when she crashed her rented Porsche into an 18-wheeler on June 8, 2012.
That probation slip-up could have cost her 240 days behind bars.
Her lawyers first proposed that Linz be put under house arrest, but prosecutors and the judge balked at that offer, defense-team sources said.
All three sides eventually agreed to lock up Lohan in drug rehab. The actress is now frantically looking for a rehab center willing to take her in the New York area.
“It’s a great result,” defense lawyer Mark Heller said outside court. “She doesn’t have to go to jail.”
As Heller spoke to reporters, Linz’s dad, Michael, heckled the lawyer, screaming, “Why are you still here?” and “You’re going to lose your license!”
Inside court, Linz, 26, barely acknowledged her dad. They traded momentary glances and exchanged brief words, but she didn’t appear pleased to see him.
As prosecutors and defense lawyers hashed out terms of the plea bargain behind closed doors, the “Parent Trap” actress spent much of her time pleasantly chitchatting with the courtroom bailiff.
“Oh, yeah, I’ve known her for three years now — going back to the days in Beverly Hills,” LA County Sheriff’s deputy Brent Becker nonchalantly said, referring to Lohan’s history of other criminal charges.
In addition to drug treatment, Lohan yesterday was also sentenced to 30 days of community service, two more years of probation, 18 months of court-monitored psychotherapy and random drug and alcohol testing.
She was also hit with a series of small fines.
“A suggestion: Don’t drive,” LA County Superior Court Judge James Dabney told Lohan. “You’re in New York, you don’t need to drive.”
In yet another “final” warning for Lohan, Dabney said another slip-up would surely lead to jail time.
“This is it,” Dabney said. “You violate your probation, and we’re not going to have discussions of putting you back on probation. Please take these conditions seriously.”
Additional reporting by David K. Li in New York