Passengers on Lohan ride hire attorney

The men who say they were unwilling passengers on Lindsay Lohan's wild ride through Santa Monica have retained a lawyer who said he hopes to resolve the case without hauling the actress into court.

Attorney Randall Billington told The Associated Press on Friday that he has been retained by Dante Nigro and Jakon Sutter, who say they pleaded with Lohan to stop as she raced along the Pacific Coast Highway at 100 mph before dawn Tuesday. He is also representing Ronnie Blake, who says Lohan drove Nigro's sport-utility vehicle over his foot as she raced off with the vehicle.

"Some people think a discussion should begin with 'I'll see you in court.' I don't believe that," said Billington, adding he hoped the situation could be resolved amicably. He also expressed concern for the well-being of Lohan, who was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence and cocaine possession at the end of the ride.

"From my clients' point of view, they want to see a good outcome to that story for her," he said.

Lohan's attorney and publicist did not respond to calls and e-mails, and Santa Monica police officials declined to comment.

"At this point we have no new information to report," said Lt. Alex Padilla, a police spokesman.

Billington declined to make the three men available for an interview.

In a video interview posted on the celebrity Web site TMZ.com before they retained an attorney, the three said they crossed paths with Lohan when they saw her traveling in a car with a friend and waved to them. Nigro said the friend responded with a text message saying the 21-year-old actress was inviting them to a party.

At the party, Nigro said, he saw Lohan drinking heavily. Sutter and Blake, who weren't allowed inside, said they waited for their friend in the car.

Shortly before the chase began, Nigro said, Lohan's personal assistant got into an argument with her boyfriend and then with the actress. When Lohan told her to be quiet she announced she was quitting and left, Nigro said.

At that point, he said, Lohan snatched his keys, which were still in the ignition of his SUV, jumped into the driver's seat and gave chase. As the car accelerated, Blake said, he managed to jump out, but the vehicle ran over his foot.

He was limping and walking with a cane Friday, his attorney said.

As Lohan raced after her assistant, Nigro and Sutter said, her car reached speeds of 100 mph.

"So we start pleading with her, 'Can you please stop the car," Sutter said.

"She says, 'I can't get in trouble, I'm a celebrity, I can do whatever the ... I want," Nigro said.

"I was honestly terrified," Nigro added. "I really thought we were going to crash and I really thought we were going to get severely hurt or all of us were going to die."

After Lohan's assistant got away, Nigro said, the actress raced to the Santa Monica home of the woman's mother. The mother, seeing a strange car arrive as she was returning home, fled in a Cadillac Escalade and called police.

"At this point the Escalade's flying, we're flying, we're probably going 80 miles per hour in residential Santa Monica," Nigro said.

The chase ended when the woman stopped near the Santa Monica police station and Lohan was arrested.

As she spoke with police, Nigro said, Lohan tried to implicate Sutter.

"We can hear her saying, 'No, no, I wasn't driving, the black kid was driving," he said.

Sutter and Blake are black, and Nigro is white.

It was the second driving arrest in two months for Lohan, who was also arrested over Memorial Day weekend after crashing her car into a curb. She was released from a rehab program this month.

In separate developments Friday, Lohan's estranged parents, Michael and Dina Lohan, appeared in a New York court to fight over child-support payments, and a lawyer for Lohan appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom in connection with a traffic accident the actress was involved in two years ago.

In New York, a judge chided Lohan's father for failing to make child-support payments for the actress' younger brother and sister. Michael Lohan was ordered to return to court Aug. 10 with proof he is looking for a job.

In Los Angeles, Lohan was granted her request to have a new judge hear a lawsuit brought against her by a man whose van collided with her Mercedes-Benz in 2005 as the actress was fleeing photographers.

Lindsay Lohan not ready to tell-all

Lindsay Lohan is not planning for a tell-all interview with OK! Magazine, her rep has said.

Perez Hilton had claimed that the troubled actress is going to give an exclusive interview to the publication.

The rep said that there is absolutely no truth in the reports, and that the report is 'fabricated'.

"There is absolutely no truth to the report that Lindsay is doing a tell-all interview with OK! Magazine or anyone else this week. That is completely fabricated," Usmagazine.com quoted the rep, as saying.

The 'Mean Girls' star, who is charged for DUI, is due to appear in court on August 24. (

Paris Buys a Pup from Britney's Pet Store

Paris Hilton has enraged leading animal rights activists by purchasing another pet Chihuahua from the same Beverly Hills store where Britney Spears picked up her new terrier London last week.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society joined forces to condemn Spears' pet shop purchase--and now Hilton has followed suit.

The socialite claimed the male Chihuahua from Pets of Bel Air on Wednesday, according to reports.

And it seems the animal activists are fighting a losing battle when it comes to persuading stars not to buy puppies from pet stores--Limp Bizkit star Fred Durst has also recently bought a Chihuahua from the same store as Britney and Paris, who have previously given homes to a Yorkshire terrier and a Chihuahua named Tinkerbell.

Lindsay Lohan's provocative ad campaign

Actress Lindsay Lohan poses provocatively in a new ad campaign for ace designer Jill Stuart's new range.

The photo shoot was shot extensively in Japan.

The troubled starlet, who was recently booked for DUI, looks inviting in stockings and suspenders.

Stuart said that the Mean Girls star is the perfect choice for the campaign.

"Lindsay's perfect for us. She's sexy and smart," the Sun quoted Jill, as saying.

The rehabbed actress is due to appear in court on August 24.

Kelly Ripa wants Lindsay Lohan to see ramifications of driving drunk

Kelly Ripa has an idea about how to possibly scare Lindsay Lohan straight: have her spend time with Ripa's sister, who was nearly killed by a drunken driver.

Ripa said on "Live With Regis and Kelly" she'd like Lohan to see "the physical agony a person lives with" after being hit by a drunken driver.

Ripa would also talk to Lohan about "wasting opportunities and what a blessing it is each day just to get up in the morning and to be healthy."

Ripa says "it's very sad" and she's "very concerned for all of these girls that are making the news lately."

Lindsay Lohan Gets An 'A' for a B-Flick

So much notoriety fogs the drama of Lindsay Lohan's life these days that it's probably easier to review that than her actual movie. But, surprise, the not-screened-in-advance-for-press "I Know Who Killed Me" is a credible piece of pop entertainment of the hottie-in-distress genre.

The genre is no favorite of critics or responsible adults, who have no desire to observe its conventions -- lots of pain, torture and bondage suffered by said hottie, followed by righteously administered way-cool death to perpetrator -- but if you accept those conventions, "I Know" delivers on them in a trim, if violent, package and gives Lohan a chance to show she knows a little something about the acting trade.

One can certainly see why she accepted such a project, even at the hands of a first-time writer (Jeff Hammond) and an undistinguished director (Chris Sivertson). She gets to play that coveted stretch-job, the double role, first as good-girl perfect teen Aubrey Fleming and then as stripper-survivor-street girl Dakota Moss. What connects them?

Aubrey, ruling princess of an ideal but geographically vague suburb, is abducted one day by the reigning serial killer, who steals beauties such as her, mutilates them horribly, then deposits their bodies on public byways. However, somehow, though mutilated in the exact same way as previous victims, she escapes, is found, hospitalized, interviewed by the FBI, visited by her boyfriend, supplied with miracle prostheses to make up for what is now missing, and returned to prosperous parents (Neal McDonough and Julia Ormond). Except now she claims to be the stripper and wild girl of the road, Dakota.

As Dakota, she swears, smokes, indulges in recreational sex and treats her parents like servants, while laughing contemptuously at the feds. The diagnosis, by the obligatory shrink, is that Aubrey's been traumatized into delusion, that she's entered a fictional world she created as a would-be writer of the Stephen King variety.

The thrust of the picture follows as tough-talking tart Dakota jokes her way through Aubrey's life and begins to wonder where she ends and Aubrey begins, or vice versa, and ultimately figures that if she's really Dakota, then Aubrey is still missing.

Director Sivertson has lots of fun with cinematography, particularly with a kind of iridescent blue, used throughout as a symbol of the mad streak at the center of the picture. The movie's primary drawback, for sensitive audiences, will be exactly what endears it to less sensitive audiences: its gore, which is endless. It loves the image of the amputee, it loves the act of amputation. It does nasty things to hands and legs, it buries people alive, it goes to the morgue and lets us look at morgue photos. Many will say ugh, and mean it. Also, it seems to take place in a universe in which cellphones have not yet been invented.

But Lohan brilliantly brings off her double turn and clearly believes in the picture, as do all who worked on it. These things used to be called B movies in the old days when nobody noticed them but critics writing 20 years later, and that's probably the fate that lies in store for "I Know Who Killed Me." It's negligible, to be sure, but these days, hey, what isn't?

I Know Who Killed Me (105 minutes, at area theaters) is rated R for grisly violence including torture and disturbing gory images, sexuality, nudity and profanity.

Paris Hilton Denies Marijuana Reports

Socialite Paris Hilton has slammed reports that she was smoking marijuana at a Hollywood nightclub with her close pal Kimberly Stewart's ex-fiancé Cisco Adler on Wednesday morning.

Us Weekly magazine reported partygoers claimed Hilton and Whitestarr frontman Adler were spotted smoking marijuana and kissing at Guy's Nightclub.

However, Hilton's representative Michael Sitrick says, "Paris absolutely did not smoke pot Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, as I understand was reported. That report is false."

When asked about her relationship to Adler, Sitrick adds, "She was with Cisco Tuesday night/Wednesday morning."

Following her release from jail last month for violating her probation from a drunk-driving arrest, Hilton appeared on Larry King's CNN show to declare she had never taken drugs in her life.