Celebrity Justice
Lindsay: You Got Served

Lindsay Lohan was slapped with a huge surprise while attending the Annual American Cinematheque Award honoring George Clooney Friday -- a subpoena! And to make matters worse, it all went down on the red carpet.

It all started after the actress was approached by a woman who Lindsay assumed was an autograph seeker on her way out of the event. Lindsay said to the woman "You're my first autograph!" to which the woman promptly answered "You've been served." According to witnesses, Lindsay then dropped the paperwork and chased after the process server. No word on whether she caught up to the process server.



The lawsuit involves Dina Lohan (Lindsay's mother) who is being sued for fraud, theft, and violation of contract. The suit, filed in Las Vegas, claims Mama Lohan signed a contract with Antonio Almeida and Mitchell Chait authorizing them to manage Lindsay's music career and record her album. The suit then claims Dina dumped the two managers and signed her daughter with Tommy Mottola's Casablanca Records, who in turn produced Lindsay's two albums. The suit seeks tens of thousands of dollars for cash the producers say they loaned to the Lohans.

TMZ spoke with Charles Coate, attorney for Almeida and Chait. He told us "[Lindsay] was in fact served in connection to the Vegas complaint. Also, Miss Lohan is only a witness, not a party in the case, and the allegations in the complaint speak for themselves."

A rep for Lindsay could not be reached at press time.

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31. This Ignorant Skank is getting just what she deserves: The Shaft.

Posted at 2:10PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Max Sand

32. RE: people abusing post #4

Not everyone speaks English as their first or even second language, so why dump on people who are trying to speak it?

Thank God the whole world doesn’t only speak English.

Posted at 2:38AM on Oct 19th 2006 by umbrosexual

33. As a process server myself, who routinely knocks on doors in the evening to serve people in dangerous neighborhoods, for a whopping salary of $30,000 a year (pays my rent and college tuition) I find this story hilarious- especially that Lohan chased after the process server. If I had been that server I would've gladly let her attack me and leave claw marks all over my body, in front of cameras, and I could retire forever!!!

Posted at 1:37AM on Nov 22nd 2006 by Server Joe

34. And for anyone who thinks the legal firm was intentionally trying to humiliate Lohan, the situation that she was put in is often the only way to serve a rich person or celebrity. Many live in gated communities that won't let process servers in. The first attempts are always at a person's home, but obviously money isn't going to be wasted to go to their home 30 days in a row, with the same failed results.

Furthermore, a process server is no different than a mail carrier. Would you attack the mail carrier because they delivered you a letter from a collection agency, or from a lawyer threatening a lawsuit? I think not. One of the main gripes our "customers" have is that we show up at their homes, but I tend to think they'd prefer that over being served at work in front of all their co-workers, which is usually the next step, as in Lohan's case.

Certainly some of the legal action is frivolous, bogus, or in error, like anything else, but we're just the courier...and hiding from us or taking out your anger on us won't make the legal action go away. The only way to do that is to deal with it head on. If legal action is being taken against you, you better deal with it immediately, and either get a lawyer or defend yourself. The last person you have to worry about is the process server, who serves thousands of people a year, and has no more personal interest in you than the pizza driver does.

Posted at 2:08AM on Nov 22nd 2006 by Server Joe

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