Lawsuits and plea bargains, oh my!

Well, its been a day of law suits, plea bargains and prison sentences in Hollywood today. Tuesdays usually are full of reports of this star suing that one and this divorce is finalized and so on, because most people file the pertinent paperwork on Mondays and the press finds out about it on Tuesdays, but today seems to be even more prolific. The lawyers in Hollywood must really be working it this week. Need more billable hours? First comes the story of Lindsay Lohan's former bodyguard suing her.
Here's the brief overview of that one:

A former Lindsay Lohan bodyguard has filed suit against the actress for fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of oral contract. David Kim alleges the star owes him more than $55,000 for security and other services rendered. Kim claims in addition to protecting Lohan from fans and paparazzi, he also worked to secure her VIP tables for clubs and concerts.

I wonder what he means by infliction of emotional stress? Next we've got Eminem's mother being sued by an author who claims he helped her write her tell all book:

Debbie Nelson, aka Eminem's mommy dearest, has been sued in Michigan court by writer Neal Alpert, who alleges he helped Nelson pen My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem, a book about her famous son, but has yet to receive a share of the profits. The book was released in the U.K. last year and is set for a U.S. debut this week.

Eh, this one's pretty self explanatory and boring, so I've got no comment aside from that's what you get when you decide to write a tell all book about your source of income. What's she got left to exploit? I could go on and blog about the latest Rob Lowe lawsuit.
But that one bores me too. So lets move on to the plea bargains, shall we?
Misha Barton is the latest of the Hollywood starlets to be pulled over for a DUI,
which is hardly surprising given the crown she hangs out with, but now she's the latest in the group to avoid jail time by taking a plea bargain:

The 22-year-old actress is planning to plead no contest to a charge of misdemeanor driving under the influence when she's arraigned Thursday in connection with her December bust, a source close to Barton told E! News Monday

If the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office makes the deal, Barton would avoid jail time, a charge of marijuana possession will be dismissed, and another for driving with an invalid license will be reduced to an infraction. (source eonline)

This is also not surprising or terribly interesting. However, it did prompt me to head over to IMDB to figure out if Misha has even been working since she left The O.C. in a blaze of fire to make movies. According to her profile, she's been quite the busy bee, but I've never heard of any of these projects. Not that I know everything, but there's usually some buzz about movies starring supposedly "A List" actresses. Hmmm... it leads me to think that maybe she's not as A List as we've all been told. Could she, in fact, be more C List! Gasp! How dare they mislead us!
On to the prison sentences. It seems that Pete Doherty, he of Kate Moss and Babyshambles fame, not to mention repeated drug charges that he's never been sent to jail for, may actually (could it be true) be going to jail!

It may have taken a while, but Pete Doherty has finally run out of get-out-of-jail-free cards.

The arrest-prone, addiction-plagued rocker was sentenced to 14 weeks in jail during a London court hearing Tuesday, after being found in violation of his probation and for using unspecified drugs.

While the 29-year-old Babyshambles frontman has had more than his share of legal run-ins over the past few years, his current jailable offense stems from a probation order issued in last October for drug possession and driving illegally.

At the time, Doherty was given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to attend regular progress reports in court as well as enter into a rehab program. The sentence followed a May arrest for which he pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.

According to the BBC, Kate Moss' infamous ex violated his probation by showing up late to one meeting with his probation officer and missing another altogether.

The British music magazine NME, meanwhile, cites a court spokesperson as claiming the violation was the result of "breach of time keeping, noncompliance of his order and using different drugs."

District Judge Davinder Lachar finally imposed a sentence of three and a half months, slightly less than the four-month stint he threatened Doherty with last fall. (source eonline)

I am actually a bit surprised by this one, I thought he would never be sent to jail. But maybe a little jail time is what he needs to finally get off the drugs. Who knows? It might do him some good. Or at least motivate him not to get caught again!

Well that's all the ranting I've got in me for this particular subject. I can only be interested in the legal doings of celebrities for so long before my mind starts to wonder on to more entertaining things, like whether or not Beyonce and Jay-Z really did get married last Friday.

This Radio Redhead is signing off.