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Originally Posted by JadeStar70
Why didn't Elle Magazine go after her for a $400,000 necklace???? Did it show back up? The ugly thing she took this time was only $2,500. You'd think they would have had her in jail for almost half a mil.
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I did some googling and I think they just couldn't prove anything, and Elle publicly said she wasn't a suspect. What else could they say? Dumbasses didn't even notice the jewelry was missing for 2 days (unbelievable!) and by then Lohan was long gone. Apparently she wasn't stupid enough to wear that stuff in public.
Here's an old NY Post article about it. Apparently that missing mink coat was returned though. Guess she thought if she returned the $2500 necklace, it would just go away too.
LINDSAY'S CLING TO THE BLING
'GEM-STONED' STAR SOUGHT TO KEEP MISSING BAUBLES
By LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT and CHUCK BENNETT
Last Updated: 9:02 AM, June 17, 2009
Decked out in borrowed designer diamonds during a London fashion shoot, a loopy-acting Lindsay Lohan had just one question between camera flashes: Can I take home the bling?
Lohan repeatedly pestered Elle UK staffers, asking throughout a recent cover shoot if the Dior necklace and earrings, worth a staggering $400,000, were hers to keep, police sources at Scotland Yard told The Post.
Those precious baubles are now missing and the subject of a British investigation.
The troubled 23-year-old star was repeatedly told that Dior -- which lent the jewels to Elle UK so the high-end jeweler could get top billing in the September cover issue -- expected them returned, a Scotland Yard source said.
"Lindsay kept telling stylists how much she liked the jewelry and asked if she could keep it," said a source close to the investigation. "Even when they explained Dior wanted it back, Lindsay continued to ask [to keep it]."
Although models often get to keep clothes and accessories, Lohan's repeated entreaties -- coupled with her history of alleged pilfering -- was noted by many at the June 6 shoot at London's Big Sky Studios.
Two days later, Elle UK staffers noticed the bling had vanished and called the cops.
During the shoot, another source said, the actress seemed to be living up to her hard-partying reputation.
Fashion assistants said she appeared to be "off her head on drugs" and "acting erratically," the source told The Post.
Team Lohan vehemently denied she had anything to do with the gems' disappearance.
"It is obvious it was not Lindsay. It was an inside job," said her mom, Dina Lohan. "She said she would do anything to help the investigation."
Scotland Yard has yet to question Lohan, who was on Long Island yesterday celebrating brother Dakota's 13th birthday.
Later in the day, she and her kid bro drew a small crowd as they shopped at Lower East Side hipster boutique Blue & Cream.
"It's so creepy," she mumbled at the gawkers.
Not that she's against being looked at: The "Mean Girls" star posted a topless Twitter pic Sunday, tweeting: "I'm THAT bored."
She also posted a thank-you to Elle magazine, which said in a statement it had "no reason to believe" Lohan was responsible for the missing bling.
Still, the incident recalls another allegedly larcenous Lohan incident.
Last year, a Manhattan model accused the star of swiping her prized mink jacket after the two crossed paths at the Chelsea club 1Oak.
Maria "Masha" Markova said she saw Lohan sporting her $11,000 jacket around town after it was stolen.
Her lawyer called Lohan's handlers, and the coat was mysteriously returned.
Markova, a model and Columbia College student, filed a civil lawsuit anyway against the "oppressive and malicious" star, demanding punitive damages.
The case was recently settled for an undisclosed sum -- and with the stipulation that Markova's camp states there was "no implication of guilt."
LINDSAY LOHAN ASKED IF SHE COULD KEEP JEWELRY FROM ELLE MAGAZINE PHOTO SHOOT - NYPOST.com