Lindsay Lohan allegedly owes $365K for book she never wrote
The actress struck the book deal over 6 years ago
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Publisher HarperCollins is suing Lindsay Lohan for nearly $400,000, claiming the actress never delivered a manuscript for a book deal struck over six years ago, new court papers say.
The “Mean Girls” star and her company Crossheart Productions entered into a contract with HarperCollins on March 27, 2014, for a book that was originally due a year later, the suit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court alleges.
The publishing house gave Crossheart a $365,000 advance for the deal, which “was given to Lohan,” but the manuscript never materialized — even with a two year extension on the deadline to March 15, 2017, the court papers claim.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}By September 2018, HarperCollins let the “Freaky Friday” actress’s reps know it was terminating the contract and demanding a return of the advance, the filing says.
Lindsay Lohan attends the MTV Europe Music Awards 2018 held at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Spain. (Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)
“By failing to return the money to the Plaintiff upon the Defendants’ breach of the agreement, the Defendants have received a windfall and have been unjustly enriched,” the suit charges.
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HarperCollins lawyer Jeffrey Maidenbaum confirmed, “She did not turn in a manuscript and the book was never published.”
Lohan was slated to write a book about her troubled life largely based on a journal she kept during her 2013 stint in rehab. The book deal was slated to be worth $1 million.
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Her reps did not immediately return requests for comment.