LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan said recently that allegations that her car grazed a man’s knee outside a Hollywood nightclub are “a complete lie.”
Lindsay went straight to her three million Twitter followers to respond to the latest in a long-line of car-related troubles for the Mean Girls actress and recent Saturday Night Live host.
“This is all a complete lie. I’ve been at community service,” Lindsay tweeted on her official account. “These false accusations are absurd.”
According to police, Lindsay’s black Porsche was surrounded by paparazzi outside the club at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man told officers her sports car grazed his knee outside the club.
Lindsay drove off and a police report wasn’t taken because the man, an employee of the Hookah Lounge near the club, wasn’t hurt, Los Angeles police Sgt. Mark Ro said.
Lindsay was trying to make a U-turn outside the Wilcox Avenue club.
“Space was tight,” the sergeant said, adding that Lindsay may have nudged the lounge employee’s parked car, believed to be a Corvette, but it wasn’t damaged.
“He came out and said, ‘Don’t hit my car,”’ Mark said. “She was making a multipoint U-turn and photographers were in her way.”
The sergeant said he didn’t know who called the police, but Lindsay was gone when officers arrived.
“We did not take a report for hit-and-run,” Mark said. “We didn’t go looking for her.”
TMZ.com first reported the incident.
Lohan and her publicist Steve Honig said she was trying to get to a friend’s birthday party at the club, but she turned around when she was mobbed by photographers and never got out of her car.
“I attempted to wish a friend happy birthday, which I didn’t even get to do because I was freaked out by all of the paparazzi,” Lindsay said on Twitter.
Steve said she and her Porsche did not make contact with anyone as she left.
“At no point was there ever any indication that her car hit anyone or anything,” Steve said in a statement. “We are confident this matter will be cleared up in the next few days.”
A phone message was left at the Hookah Lounge several hours before it opened, seeking comment from the man who was allegedly grazed. The call was not immediately returned.
Lindsay has a history of bad luck with cars.
The former Disney star has been under strict probation guidelines imposed last year, including therapy sessions and weekly stints working at the morgue.