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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Actress Lindsay Lohan was ordered Tuesday to serve 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation.

The judge also ordered Lohan to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab program after her jail term is completed.

The actress must begin serving her sentence on July 20, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel said.

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JOHANNESBURG — Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton was arrested after a World Cup match in South Africa Friday on suspicion of marijuana possession but subsequently released without charge.

The 29-year old great-granddaughter of Hilton hotels founder Conrad Hilton and her friend Jennifer Rovero were taken into custody after the Brazil-Netherlands World Cup quarter-final game in the South African coastal city.

Rovero, who describes herself as a former Playboy playmate, model and actress on her website, was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 rand ($130) or 30 days in jail for smoking a marijuana joint.

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The bizarre case of kidnapping and forced intoxication that allegedly resulted in one horrific night for former “Party of Five” star Jeremy London suddenly seems even stranger. The unexpected twists in the actor’s woes come from a slew of cease and desist orders issued to London’s family members, and an odd she-said-they-said disagreement between his wife and police officials.

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(CNN) — Actor Jeremy London escaped from armed carjackers who kidnapped him along a Palm Springs, California, roadside last week, police said.

London said the kidnappers forced him to “use illegal drugs,” according to a Palm Springs Police statement.

London, 37, is known for his television work, including five seasons as Griffin Holbrook on the hit series “Party of Five.”

The actor told police that “several men” approached him as he was changing a flat tire on Friday, according to the the police statement.

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Here we are again, processing the death of a public person who was privately the object of concern. Officials are still investigating Brittany Murphy’s all-too-soon death, but those who knew her say they saw it coming.

While there are speculative rumors of the usual Hollywood chemical abuse beginning to circulate, what many people who knew the actress noticed most was her recent severe weight loss.

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“It is too soon to have made any decisions at this time regarding the status of the show,” Jenni Weinman said in an e-mail regarding “Gone Too Far,” a show about drug addiction that was set to debut in October.

It was a subject close to his heart. The successful deejay and entrepreneur was a self-described crack cocaine addict who had 11 years of sobriety and wanted the show to help others.

Since his death, blogs and message boards have been full of speculation over whether the show contributed to his death.

Goldstein’s body was found in his New York City apartment with a crack pipe nearby and a half bag of crack cocaine and prescription drugs in the home, a police source told People.com.

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Forty years ago, when Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane et al took to the makeshift stage in a cow field in the Catskills, Lee was 14 years old and still living in his native Taiwan.

James Schamus, his long-time producer and screenwriter, was just nine.

Both were a long way from what the movie calls “the center of the universe.”

Perhaps that’s why “Taking Woodstock” shies away from the main stage and the big names.

Instead, it focuses on Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin), a young man who quits Greenwich Village to help his parents keep open their failing Bethel motel, El Monaco.

Elliot is resourceful enough to become Bethel’s youngest director of the chamber of commerce, but between his mom’s penny-pinching and his dad’s depression, it looks like El Monaco will be lucky to last through the summer.

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