Report Claims Lindsay Lohan May be Missing

July 26, 2007

Where in the world is Lindsay Lohan now? The Hollywood starlet has been rumored nearly everywhere but a report claims no one can find her. One report said she spent the night at her California DUI attorney's house but that has been denied. It was first reported she was headed back to the Promises treatment facility but that apparently did not happen.

There is speculation that she would take rehabilitation seriously this time and head to betty ford to get her life together before heading to multiple California DUI court dates in Los Angeles but sources close to Lohan have also denied that.

One statement right after gave this: "Addiction is a terrible and vicious disease. Since Lindsay’s transition to outpatient care, she has been monitored on bracelet and tested daily in order to support her sobriety. Throughout this period, I have received timely and accurate reports from the testing company. Unfortunately, late yesterday I was informed that Lindsay had relapsed. The bracelet has now been removed. She is safe, out of custody and presently receiving medical care.”

But where? Star Magazine reports that two days after Lindsay Lohan was arrested for her second California DUI and cocaine possession, she seems to have disappeared. A well-placed source tells Star, "There's a 'rumor' going around amongst people in the know that none of Lohan's 'people' — managers, agents, lawyers, publicists — can find her and that she's missing."

The magazine muses, "Well, one thing is for sure. The paparazzi seemed to have lost their firm grip on the 21-year-old I Know who Killed Me star, who has been missing in action for the past two days."

Lindsay Lohan’s best bet for avoiding jail time is to go back into rehab yet again and remove herself from a high-flying party lifestyle. If not, she could be facing up to six months behind bars, legal observers speculate.

Lohan, 21, was less than two weeks out of a recovery program and was voluntarily wearing an alcohol-monitoring device when she was arrested Tuesday in Santa Monica for investigation of misdemeanor California DUI driving both under the influence and with a suspended license, and felony cocaine possession.

Her lawyer, Blair Berk, has said she had a "relapse" and was receiving medical care at an undisclosed location.

The actress completed more than six weeks in rehab less than two weeks ago, and had checked into another recovery clinic in January.

Over the weekend, she was photographed at a party in a pink bikini, with the monitoring device on her ankle.

That behavior won’t cut it anymore and neither will spa-style clinics, said Barry Gerald Sands, a Century City defense attorney who’s also a certified drug and alcohol counselor.

"Whatever you have done in the past, do a 360-degree turn and go the other way," Sands said Wednesday. "She has to change her alleged friends, people sharing or selling her drugs. She has to lead a clean and sober life.

"Silk-sheet recovery homes don’t do the job."

If Lohan is charged with a crime, she could ask a judge to order her to remain in rehabilitation while she awaits trial, Sands said.

A "recovery team" should be in place that includes doctors and addiction specialists who can give the judge alternatives to jail. And if she is convicted, the rehab time would count against whatever jail sentence is issued, Sands said.

Lohan has never been convicted of a drug or alcohol crime and judges routinely place first-time DUI offenders on probation rather than behind bars. However, Lohan’s case could be complicated because she also was arrested for investigation of felony DUI in Beverly Hills on Memorial Day after her Mercedes-Benz crashed into a curb.

That case was submitted to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office last week and is being reviewed, spokeswoman Jane Robison said.

If she is convicted of two felonies in the two cases, she might be eligible for 18 months or more in state prison but such a sentence is unlikely, said Lawrence Taylor, a former Los Angeles prosecutor who runs one of the nation’s top DUI defense law firms.

"Our prisons are packed already," he said. "We don’t need some recreational (drug) users with a small amount of coke with a clean record."

On the other hand, Lohan probably will have to do some time in county jail simply because prosecutors and judges saw the backlash when Paris Hilton was briefly allowed to serve her DUI sentence at home instead of jail.

"They’re going to see how sensitive everything was ... Everything was being looked at with a microscope and broadcast to the entire world, literally," Taylor said. "They saw what happened and judges do run for re-election, and deputy DAs are aware that their bosses run for re-election."