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Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail

A Beverly Hills Superior Court judge also orders the actress to spend 90 days in a rehabilitation program for violating the terms of her probation.

Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel on Tuesday sentenced actress Lindsay Lohan to 90 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation, City News Service reported. The sentence, which was handed down at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, comes as a result of the 24-year-old actress missing court-mandated alcohol education classes stemming from two DUI arrests in May 2007. Lohan was ordered to surrender in Revel's courtroom July 20 to begin serving her jail sentence.

Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, maintains that her client had permission to miss the classes for work-related reasons. Lohan herself gave tearful testimony before the judge's sentence, claiming she missed classes because she was working and that she believed she was allowed to make them up by attending more than one session in a single week.

"Going more than once a week, I would try to do that only because I knew I had to work the next week, I figured," Lohan tearfully told the judge. "And as far as I knew they were OK with it and I was still in compliance."

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Revel, who also ordered Lohan to complete a 90-day inpatient rehabilitation program upon her release from the Century Regional Detention Center, had harsh words for the troubled starlet.

"It's like somebody who cheats doesn't think it's cheating unless they get caught,'' she told Lohan in front of the packed courtroom.

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Lohan was already in hot water with Revel. On May 20, Lohan failed to show up for a court hearing because she was at the Cannes Film Festival. She claimed that her passport had been stolen, preventing her from getting back in time for the hearing. Lohan made it to court four days later and was ordered by Revel to wear a SCRAM alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet as a condition of her release on bail pending Tuesday's probation hearing. She was also ordered to undergo random drug testing, among other conditions.

Sheriff's spokesperson Steve Whitmore said that many non-violent female inmates often serve about 25% of their sentence, which means Lohan's latest jailhouse stint may last only 23 days.

The time served in jail and rehab is expected to significantly interfere with Lohan's professional life. She is scheduled to begin shooting a movie in August, and also handles promotional duty for her leggings and self-tanner lines.

"This is going to be really, really hard for her, in terms of making a comeback," entertainment journalist Megan McCarthy said. "She's going to be totally uninsurable on sets and investors are definitely going to think twice about working with her."

Lohan, best known for her roles in family-friendly movies such as "The Parent Trap"  and "Freaky Friday," has in recent years been plagued by firings, stints in rehab and continued rumors of drug abuse and erratic behavior. On July 2—her 24th birthday—Lohan alleges that she was punched by a waitress at West Hollywood hotspot Voyer.

But now that Lohan has been sentenced, locals hope that the media circus is on its way out of town—for now at least. Residents who live near the Beverly Hills Courthouse at Burton Way and Rexford Drive have complained about the increased traffic and paparazzi presence during celebrity appearances there.

"I drove by on my way to work this morning and it was an absolute mess," said Beverly Hills resident Matthew Ferrer. "Every time one of these hearings happens, the street is totally impassable with rubberneckers and photographers. It's inconvenient for people who live here and actually have to use those streets."

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