<![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan owes $365K on advance for book she never wrote, lawsuit claims]]> https://usagag.com/2020/09/10/lindsay-lohan-owes-365k-on-advance-for-book-she-never-wrote-lawsuit-claims/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://usagag.com Lindsay Lohan owes $365K on advance for book she never wrote, lawsuit claims 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, a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Thursday 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.

By September 2018, HarperCollins let the “Freaky Friday” actress’s reps know they were terminating the contract and demanding a return of the advance, the filing says.

“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.

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.

Her reps did not immediately return requests for comment.

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