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How LiLo Lost Her $150K Escort Gig

Lindsay Lohan messed up her brightest new career path yet

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 12, 2010 9:23 AM CST

(Newser) – Lindsay Lohan may have a flagging acting career, trainwrecky personal life, and disappointing fashion debut, but at least she had a $150,000 escort gig—until she messed that up, too. Austrian billionaire Richard Lugner was set to pay up for LiLo to accompany him to yesterday’s Vienna Opera Ball, as Ivana Trump, Pam Anderson, and Paris Hilton have done in the past. The fallen starlet, however, wanted the event rescheduled; wouldn’t vet her gown; then missed her private jet and refused to take a shared plane.

“Which is too bad, because high-end escorting would be a good way for Lindsay to earn her nut,” writes Maureen O'Connor on Gawker. “The painful truth is that, at the tender age of 23, Lindsay—like so many of Lugner's beauties—is past her prime.” But she can look “fabulous, dramatic, and gloriously skanky amid luxury, which is why international high-end party-for-pay girl is not a bad choice—in fact, she would excel at it.”

Austrian businessman Richard Lugner and girlfriend Anastasia Sokol announce Lindsay Lohan will be his guest at this year's Opera Ball during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 20, 2010.
Austrian businessman Richard Lugner and girlfriend Anastasia Sokol announce Lindsay Lohan will be his guest at this year's Opera Ball during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 20, 2010.   (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Richard Lugner, girlfriend Bettina Kofler, and host Dita Von Teese present their ball robes for the traditional Viennese Opera Ball, on Jan. 31, 2008, at a hotel in Vienna.
Richard Lugner, girlfriend Bettina Kofler, and host Dita Von Teese present their ball robes for the traditional Viennese Opera Ball, on Jan. 31, 2008, at a hotel in Vienna.   (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)
Nicollette Sheridan, the host of businessman Richard Lugner, (from left), presents her ball robe for the traditional Viennese Opera Ball, on Feb. 19, 2009, at a hotel in Vienna.
Nicollette Sheridan, the host of businessman Richard Lugner, (from left), presents her ball robe for the traditional Viennese Opera Ball, on Feb. 19, 2009, at a hotel in Vienna.   (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)
Actress Lindsay Lohan attends the 2009 Whitney Museum of American Art gala and studio party, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, in New York.
Actress Lindsay Lohan attends the 2009 Whitney Museum of American Art gala and studio party, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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This is not the same, mind you, as being a prostitute. It's more like being a Hooters shooter girl to the global elite. Think Tara Reid hosting NYE parties at European mega-clubs and attending shindigs in Dubai.
- Maureen O'Connor

High-end escorting is no less dignified than what Lindsay's doing stateside (tabloid confessionals about hoarding?) and if she actually sticks with this 'saving the children of the world' thing, she'll have plenty of time for that, too.
- Maureen O'Connor

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COMMENTS
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Berzelius
Feb 13, 2010 5:08 AM CST
If you all don't want her I'll take her. I'm like Confederate Railroad "I like my women just a little on the trashy side."
cornelison
Feb 13, 2010 4:16 AM CST
Lohan is a screw-up. She's a self-centered ingrate who messed up a career only others could dream of.
blues_junky
Feb 12, 2010 11:22 AM CST
 

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