Yesterday, we extolled the prospective pleasures of house arrest, i.e. such as the one currently imposed upon Lindsay Lohan.Turns out we were dead right. TMZ has learned that La Lohan and her little anklet are having a grand old time in her beachfront abode.
It seems that she laid in a good supply of art canvases before her confinement and plans to do a lot of painting. Sources close to Lohan (but then, aren't we all?) say she is looking at her period of forced lolling as a "time to relax, focus on her recovery and figure out her new game plan for her life and career."She also apparently has a stack of scripts to read, pondering mammoth paychecks to come while lying on the couch. Excuse us while we go steal a necklace.
In other Lohan news (just to get our desk cleared) ...She settled a lawsuit filed by a woman whom she pursued in a pre-dawn car chase in 2007. Lohan settled the lawsuit, filed by Tracie Rice on Wednesday. Rice claimed she was traumatized and lost a well-paying job because of the incident, court records show.
Rice was a passenger in a car driven by the mother of Lohan's former assistant, who the actress pursued down the Pacific Coast Highway in July 2007. The chase ended with Lohan's arrest (for DUI) in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Police Department; Rice has said she thought the actress was trying to carjack her. No details of the settlement were released. "Lindsay is very pleased to put this unfortunate event behind her," her attorney, Ed McPherson, wrote in a statement. Lohan is also being sued by three men who were in the sport utility vehicle the actress used to pursue Rice. Sheesh.
Amy Winehouse is back in the wine house, er, rehab. A representative for the singer-songwriter says she has checked into a treatment program in London. Spokesman Chris Goodman said Friday that the 27-year-old wants to be sure she's ready to perform this summer in Europe, where drunken singers are frowned upon. The rep says she'll stay at the clinic on "doctors' advice." It was not clear what treatment she'll get at the Priory Clinic. It offers treatment for a range of psychiatric problems, as well as drug and alcohol addiction. Winehouse's breakthrough disc, 2006's "Back to Black," won her five Grammy Awards and helped her achieve worldwide stardom, but her music has been overshadowed by drug use and legal run-ins.
Sotomayor scores: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she received nearly $1.2 million to write a memoir of her rise from a South Bronx housing project to the nation's highest court. Sotomayor reported the payment for the as-yet untitled book from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in an annual report of personal finances, released Friday for the justice and her eight colleagues. Knopf revealed last July that Sotomayor had agreed to write the memoir, but the size of the advance had not been public.
The book will come out simultaneously in English and in Spanish, but no release date has been set. Sotomayor is the court's first Hispanic justice. Her parents moved from Puerto Rico to New York after World War II.