Names and faces

Friday, November 30, 2012

— Lindsay Lohan was charged Thursday with crimes in New York and Los Angeles. Prosecutors in Santa Monica charged Lohan with three misdemeanors related to a June accident. Hours earlier, the actress was arrested and charged with third-degree assault after a woman was punched in a New York City nightclub. Police said the woman did not require medical attention. The California charges came about six months after Lohan’s Porsche crashedinto the back of a dump truck. She told police her assistant was driving, but detectives now believe that the actress was behind the wheel as she headed to a movie set. In that case, Lohan, 26, was charged on accusations of lying to police, reckless driving and obstructing a police officer from performing duties. Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Holley, did not return messages seeking comment. The charges could trigger another probation violation for Lohan, who was ordered to remain out of trouble when she was released from supervised probation in March after being convicted of the misdemeanor theft of a necklace and two charges of driving under the influence. Since then she has been arrested twice in New York, crashed her car on Pacific Coast Highway, been treated by paramedics in her hotel room, and gotten in an argument with her mother that prompted a 911 call. In recent years, Lohan has been sentenced to the Los Angeles-area women’s jail five times. Most of her stays have been short because of overcrowding, and she was allowed to serve 35 days on house arrest in 2011.

Madonna’s conical-bra corset sold for $52,000 at a London auction Thursday. Madonna wore the Jean Paul Gaultier-designed green-and-white corset for the 1990 Blond Ambition tour while performing three songs, including “Now I’m Following You.” The corset was bought by a bidder in the room, acting for an undisclosed London collector. A handmade 12-plait kangaroo-hide bullwhip produced for one of the Indiana Jones movies sold for $32,000 to anInternet buyer. It was one of more than 30 props produced by whip-maker David Morgan and featured in the Temple of Doom film in 1984. “Indiana Jones is a timeless classic,” said Tim Lawes, general manager of the vendor, The Prop Store of London. “That was the cheapest whip with a provenance I’ve seen, though. They have made $40,000 to $50,000 before.”

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