Lohan sends email begging for LA lift on private jet

A lawyer representing Lindsay Lohan has admitted that the actress is not going to make it back from Cannes to California in time to meet a court deadline today. Whether this means the 23-year-old will be jailed when she does eventually return is uncertain.

She has the excuse that her passport was stolen during her current trip to the Cannes film festival, where she has been partying hard and announcing her new movie role as Linda Lovelace, the Deep Throat star, in a new biopic called Inferno.

And she has evidence - conveniently obtained by the gossip site Radar Online - that she has tried her best to get home. On Tuesday she tried to board a commercial flight to LA, but was turned away because she had no passport. Yesterday, she tried to get a lift back to LA on a private jet.

In a mass email, she wrote: "I need my friends, and people I work with to PLEASE help me get on a private plane tomorrow by at least 5pm. This is such a horrible thing that's happened to me and extremely unfortunate. My passport's been stolen and the day before my court hearing.

"I would never ask such a thing, but if there's anything that I could ever ask of anyone, it would be to help me with this. I must get back on a jet to LA tomorrow. If anyone has planes leaving Nice/Cannes at any time after 11am when I get my passport, please, please, let me know if you can help me. God bless All my love Thank you, Lindsay Lohan."

All of which suggests the "wild child" actress tried to get to court on time... except for the fact that the Marseille office of the US embassy - the closest bureau to Cannes - has no record of Lindsay Lohan applying for a new passport.

Curiouser and curiouser. Meanwhile the Los Angeles deputy district attorney, Danette Meyers, is threatening to ask for the starlet to be jailed for 180 days for failing to meet the terms of her probation.

As The First Post reported yesterday, she has apparently been to only 10 of the 13 alcohol education classes she was required to attend after a drink-driving hearing in 2007. Judge Marsha Revel was expecting her to attend her court today to explain why. ·