Personal life

Lindsay Dee Lohan (born 2 July 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Known professionally as Lindsay Morgan Lohan, she was born in New York City and raised in Merrick, Long Island, New York. Lohan started in show business as a child model for magazine and television ads. 

At age 10, she began her acting career on a soap opera; at 11, she made her motion picture début by playing both twins in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Lohan's breakout role in Mean Girls came six years later, shining the media spotlight on her professional and personal lives—including her nightlife and her parents' marital and legal struggles.

As an adult, Lohan began to take on more independent projects, including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion. While filming Herbie: Fully Loaded, Lohan recorded and released Speak in 2004, launching her career in music; her second album was released in 2005.

Personal life: Lindsay Lohan is the eldest child of Michael and Dina (née Sullivan) Lohan, both former actors. She has two younger brothers, Michael and Dakota ("Cody"), and a younger sister, Aliana ("Ali"). Lohan—who originally pronounced her name 'lō-han but later settled on 'lō-ən—is of Irish and Italian heritage.

She and her family have donated time and money to charity projects such as The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Foundation, Save the Children, The United Cerebral Palsy Association, and her own charity organization, Dream Come True.

Lohan's family was financially comfortable from the start; her father had inherited his family's pasta business, and Lindsay helped him create Denata's Pasta Chips. Michael Lohan later sold the business to trade in futures (briefly becoming President of New York Futures Traders). 

More recently, he worked as an investment banker, securing funding for independent films. Lindsay's mother, a former Rockette at Radio City Music Hall, was a Wall Street analyst before settling in as her daughter's manager. Despite the Lohans' wealth, Lindsay attended public schools until just before graduation, finishing her studies at home.

Like most celebrities, Lohan and her family have endured public scrutiny of their private lives. It was revealed in 2004 that Michael Lohan had spent much of Lindsay's preteen years in prison for securities fraud. In 2005, he was sent back to prison for "aggravated unlicensed driving" and attempted assault.

Later that year, Lindsay's parents settled their divorce case; her mother's attorney said, "Dina and the children are delighted that this chapter in their lives is finally over", while her father, through his lawyer, said, "I look forward to the opportunity to rebuild my relationship with my children."

In 2005, Lohan bought a home in Beverly Hills, California, but still spent much of her time at her family's home in New York.

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