Authorities conducting undercover operations at trendy celebrity watering holes in recent weeks want to know if an underage Lindsay Lohan was served alcohol before a weekend car crash. California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators also want to know if Lohan or others were served after hours, agency spokesman John Carr said. Videos show Lohan leaving Hollywood's Les Deux club at 3:30 a.
m. Alcohol cannot be served in California after 2 a.m.
The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control told the Beverly Hills Police Department it wants to review witness reports and other evidence to determine if a formal investigation is warranted, Carr said. Les Deux owner Lonnie Moore said Lohan had dinner and wasn't drinking. "Because of the enormous paparazzi presence outside of Les Deux that night, we allowed her to stay late and wait for her friends," Moore said in a statement released by an associate.
Lohan, who turns 21 on July 2, was behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz that was heavily damaged when it crashed into a curb and bushes on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills early Saturday. "We have a duty to check on these things whenever there's a report of a minor involved in a crash," Carr said, noting "underage drinking is a huge problem in the state of California." George Michael, who has pleaded guilty to driving while unfit, had several drugs in his system when he was arrested, a court heard Wednesday.
Tests showed the 43-year-old singer had taken a therapeutic quantity of an antidepressant as well as gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, Prosecutor Andrew Torrington told Brent Magistrates' Court in London. GHB is often called the "date-rape drug" because it leaves people groggy and powerless. Michael, who wasn't in court Wednesday, pleaded guilty May 8 to driving while unfit due to drugs.
He said his condition was caused by "tiredness and prescribed drugs." The former Wham! singer, whose real name is George Panayiotou, was arrested in the early hours of Oct.
2 after police responded to complaints that a car was blocking an intersection in North London. Police said Michael was found slumped over the wheel of the car. His lawyer, Michael Grieve, told the court a prescription sleeping drug was the most likely explanation for Michael's condition.
Actress Lana Clarkson had gunshot residue on both hands, a coroner testified Wednesday, but he refused to offer an opinion in Phil Spector's murder trial on whether that would suggest she fired the bullet that killed her. Deputy Medical Examiner Louis Pena, who testified earlier that he is convinced Clarkson's death was a homicide, was led through an examination of forensic evidence by defense attorney Christopher Plourd. The defense is seeking to show that the 40-year-old actress pulled the trigger of a handgun inserted in her mouth.
Pena was asked whether the gunshot residue meant Clarkson was holding the gun when it was fired. "There are two ways to look at it," said Pena. "It implies the person could have been holding a weapon at the time of discharge or could be in the vicinity.
" The attorney asked more specifically: "Could it be in her hands or could it be in the vicinity when discharged?" The medical examiner said he was not an expert in that area of forensics. "That's for somebody else," he said.
Spector met the actress in the early morning of Feb. 3, 2003, at the House of Blues nightclub where she was a hostess. She went home with him and two hours after they arrived at his mansion she was dead, slumped in a chair in a foyer.
A chauffeur has said he saw Spector emerge from the house about 5 a.m. holding a gun and declaring, "I think I shot somebody.
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