Lindsay Lohan (FilmMagic)
Lindsay skates again!
Manhattan prosecutors have declined to prosecute Lindsay Lohan over a Florida fortune teller’s claim that the star sucker-punched her during a late-November starlet-on-psychic fracas.
The decision “disappointed” the fortune teller, according to her lawyer, but delighted the trouble-plagued starlet, whose cross-country docket of criminal woes is now cleared.
“This was the final legal hurdle to overcome and clear the path of Lindsay’s freedom,” her lawyer, Mark Heller, said in response to the good news.
“An alleged gypsy fortune teller tried to grasp her 15 minutes of fame by claiming that Lindsay Lohan assaulted her,” Heller said in a swipe at Palm Beach-based psychic Tiffany Mitchell.
“Unfortunately, she was unable to see in her crystal ball that I would come to Lindsay’s defense and present exculpatory evidence to the New York District Attorney’s Office,” he said.
Heller met with prosecutors three times since her arrest, and in late December brought along a female club-goer who had watched the boozy, 4 a.m. argument between Lohan, 26, and Mitchell, 28, in the VIP section of the Avenue nightclub.
That witness, who had no allegiance to either Lohan or Mitchell, told prosecutors she saw no physical contact between the two women, Heller has said.
Meanwhile, the bottle-blonde sooth-sayer’s lawyer, Gloria Alred, complained today that her client had suffered “injuries–” including a swollen cheek — and had brought two witnesses of her own in to speak with the DA’s office, corroborating Mitchell’s own account, only to have their information cast aside.
But Mitchell was caught on video falling as police were leading her out of the club — causing investigators to wonder just when her injuries were sustained.
“Ms. Mitchell is considering all of her legal options in the civil justice system because of what she suffered that night,” Alred said, alluding to a big fat lawsuit against the cash-strapped actor.
On Monday, Heller accompanied Lohan to a Los Angeles courtroom to dispose of her docket there. Lohan 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.
She agreed to do 90 days of in-patient rehab, and was given 45 days to find a facility.
Lohan could have served a year in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor assault of Mitchell inside the tony Chelsea club Avenue. She had faced a threatened 240 days jail in the California cases.
Back in October, prosecutors had quickly decided not to pursue a prosecution against Lohan after a Chelsea pedestrian’s claims of being clipped by the actress’s car were proven false by sidewalk video.