Highlights
- Troubled Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail after serving 13-days of a 90-day sentence.
- The actress was released at 1:35 am (local time) today from the Lynwood Regional Detention Facility here, but that did not end her legal saga as she had to head straight to a court ordered rehab facility, reported American website TMZ.
- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore announced that the Mean Girls star has been released from jail following good behaviour and because of overcrowding at the facility.
Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail, but she's not exactly a free woman.
A sheriff's spokesman says the actress was discharged at 1:35 a.m. Monday after serving 14 days of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation in a 2007 drug case. She is now required to begin a three-month stint in rehab.
A prosecutor has said Lohan cannot be released early and will have to spend the entire time in treatment.
Steve Whitmore, Media Spokesman for L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca said while announcing her release, "Ladies and gentlemen, Lindsay Lohan was released from custody at 1:35 this morning, and, per a court order. She has been sent directly to her next destination, which is a treatment centre."
"She will now be under the supervision of the L-A County Probation Dept this concludes her custody," he added.
Actress Lindsay Lohan's time in a Los Angeles County jail is over.
Lohan's abbreviated stay was not unexpected, although it was considerably longer than the 84 minutes she spent at the same facility in 2007. The judge said during Lohan's surrender on July 20 that she had no control over how long the actress would be jailed, but did require her to serve her time at a women's jail operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.