Lindsay To Be Taped For Deposition
Lindsay Lohan is used to being in front of the camera — except this time, she's fighting not to be.
On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern rejected Lindsay's lawyer's motion to prohibit the use of a video camera during the actress' deposition in a lawsuit regarding a car crash that injured a busboy.
Lindsay's attorney David J. Ozeran insisted that the $200,000 in damages that Raymundo Ortega is seeking would not amount to the amount of money that a leak of the videotape would sell.
"If a single picture of Ms. Lohan can sell for thousands of dollars," Ozeran wrote in court papers. "A videotape of the deposition will undoubtedly sell for tens of thousands of dollars, or more."
Although videotaped depositions are a common practice in civil cases, Ozeran believes a leak of Lindsay's deposition would hurt his client's career.
Raymundo Ortega alleges that Lohan drove her Mercedes-Benz into a van he was driving in October 2005 after she drank alcohol and later tried to escape paparazzi. A California Highway Patrol investigation later concluded that the cause of the crash was a result from an illegal U-turn made by Ortega in Beverly Hills.
