The estranged father of actress Lindsay Lohan is behind bars after being held in a Tampa, Florida, hospital overnight Thursday for observation, hours after the second time he was arrested for domestic violence-related arrest this week.
Michael Lohan was admitted to Tampa General Hospital for observation, police said, following a jump from a third-floor balcony in an attempt to escape from authorities early on Thursday morning.
Lohan “apparently leaped up from his balcony and grabbed ahold of the roof [about 10m] until he thought he was hanging over the top of the next balcony,” according to a report by Tampa Police officer J. Ladd, who responded to the call. The report said Lohan let go but missed the balcony, then came “crashing down on top of wooden high chairs that were laying on the ground.” After a short chase, officers arrested Lohan.
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This was the second encounter with Florida officers this week. On Tuesday, the 51-year-old Lohan was arrested on domestic violence charges involving Kate Major, his 28-year-old girlfriend who is also a former reporter for the Star tabloid.
Police say he grabbed Major and pushed her down multiple times at her apartment during a day-long argument.
A Tampa judge had released Lohan on US$5,000 bail on Wednesday morning and told Lohan that he should not have any contact with Major at all.
“If you even dream about her and you violate my order, you will go to jail,” Judge Walter Heinrich said, noting that Major had filed a restraining order against Lohan.
When Lohan was released from jail on Wednesday evening, he held an impromptu news conference in the jail parking lot. There, Lohan said he “didn’t do anything” and the charges were Major’s way of making money by selling her story to media outlets.
According to a police report, Wednesday night’s contact began a few hours later. Lohan sent his friend and trainer David Dominique to Major’s apartment to pick up his personal belongings, police said. A report said Lohan initially called Major to speak with Dominique, and Major told him that he wasn’t supposed to call.
After Dominique left, Lohan called back seeking to work things out with Major. “He sounds extremely intoxicated,” Major told the emergency services dispatcher.
“He sounded very out of it. And I found out he was doing steroids,” she said, adding that Lohan asked for a bag he hid in the bathroom.
“You’re harassing me again,” Major told Lohan before hanging up to call police. According to Ladd’s report, he and his fellow officer were gathering information and listening to messages left by Lohan on Major’s answering machine when Lohan called again from his cell.
“We had the victim put the phone on speaker when she answered. During this conversation [Lohan] kept asking things like “how can we work things out, where you moving to, you know I didn’t threaten you, I didn’t throw the remote at you I threw it at the floor,” Ladd wrote.
The officers eventually whispered to Major to tell Lohan not to call again and to hang up, which she did.
Lohan called again, but Major did not pick up.
After the balcony fall and the foot pursuit, officers arrested Lohan and took him to the Hillsborough County Jail. Deputies suspected he may have broken his foot when he jumped off the balcony, so he was then taken to Tampa General Hospital.
Authorities said he would be returned to the jail once he was cleared by doctors.
Lohan appeared on season 5 of Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew. He told police this week that he moved to Tampa to get away from the publicity surrounding his celebrity daughter Lindsay — who has had numerous run-ins with the law herself in Los Angeles and is currently performing court-ordered community service in the LA County morgue for a probation violation.
She also reportedly posed for Playboy last week.
Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has come through on his pledge to help schools in Joplin, Missouri, replace musical instruments lost in the tornado that devastated the town this spring.
The Joplin Globe reports that hundreds of band, choir and orchestra students looked on Thursday as Manilow delivered US$300,000 worth of musical instruments for the high school and middle school. Manilow made the presentation inside a stadium on behalf of the Manilow Music Project, which works to highlight the importance of school music programs.
The May 22 tornado killed more than 160 people and destroyed thousands of homes as well as businesses and schools in the southwestern Missouri city.
Another singer in his 60s, Elton John, says politics have divided the US, but he singled out one politician during his foundation’s annual benefit as an example for others to follow.
The British singer praised New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at Wednesday night’s 10th annual Enduring Vision gala for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
John thanked Cuomo for “taking a stand in New York and making the dream of marriage equality a reality in the state.” The governor was in the audience.
In July, New York became the sixth US state to recognize same-sex nuptials.
The benefit raised US$2 million for John’s foundation.
Alec Baldwin, Jon Bon Jovi and Sarah Ferguson were among the celebrities in attendance.
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