Lindsay Lohan, Coat Thief

This story is really bizarre... Lindsay Lohan stole the fur coat of a fellow party attendee in New York back in January.  The coat's actual owner tracked her thievery via the magic of the internet, and the coat was returned, stinking.  What?! I'll just let the New York Post break it down for you, after the jump.

A Columbia co-ed wants to know how Lindsay Lohan ended up wearing her $11,000 blond mink coat - and is demanding the “Mean Girl” pay for the impromptu rental. Masha Markova, 22, believed she had forever lost the prized jacket - a gift from her grandmother - while attending a private birthday party at 1Oak in the Meatpacking District in the early-morning hours of Jan. 26. The club was closed for a friend of jet-setting playboy Stavros Niarchos, Markova said.

She added that at one point, she was seated next to Lohan, and recalled putting the mink in a common bin with other jackets. It was gone when she prepared to leave 1Oak after an hour, Markova said. Two weeks later, Markova flipped through the Feb. 11 edition of OK! Magazine and couldn’t believe her eyes - Lohan was photographed the night of Jan. 26 wearing the very same fur coat. “I was actually talking on the phone to my grandmother about something else, and then I flipped through the magazine, saw the picture said, ‘I need to call you back,’ ” Markova told The Post yesterday.

“It was my coat. It was no doubt!” The pretty co-ed said that in the ensuing days, she surfed the Internet and found several paparazzi photos of Lohan wearing the distinctive blond coat hours after the birthday party they had both attended. Also, celebrity blogs posted pictures of the actress party-hopping that night - wearing a black coat before she arrived at 1Oak, Markova said.

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The article goes on to say that after Markova called the restaurant, got ignored, and then hired her own lawyer, the coat was mysteriously returned (she got a call from the restaurant saying "We're going to bring you something," and then it appeared).  It stank, naturally, given Lohan's being a smokestack and a boozehound and all, and it was ripped, and had to be cleaned and patched.  You can guess whether Lindsay was kind enough to tuck a check into the pocket when she returned the coat, to cover its repair.  Markova wants $10,000 for the "unauthorized rental."

What the hell?  What an a-hole, seriously.  (Lohan, not Markova.)  This woman has enough money to buy her own mink farm if she wants (don't tell Pink, though).  But apparently she's such an entitled little princess that she just can't wait five seconds to get her hands on what she wants, even if that means taking it from someone else without their knowledge or permission.  Gross.  She ought to pay that 10k , apologize profusely, and be glad she's not going to jail for larceny.

Comments

[Sils]

My personal feelings about fur aside, as the doting mother of 6 very alive and fabulous chinchillas (MURDERERS!), um, who puts a coat with that much money in a "bin?"

Coat check? Sure. BIN???

[Lindsay]

Wow. What a bitch! Get your own dang coat!

[BaltimoreGal]

I'm torn because of course LL shouldn't have taken MM's (ha!) coat.

On the other hand:
-Eew. Fur coat. Gross.
-Who under the age of 40 wears a mink coat to a party?
-And right, Sils- who puts an $11,000 coat in a bin?
-Who doesn't call the police when their $11,000 mink coat goes missing from said bin?

For all we know, MM was too drunk to find the coat and too rich to care until she saw a chance to profit from this, while LL said, umm- who left this mink? No one? I can has? cool.

Not likely, but possible.

[Mrs. Kennedy]

AMAZING. Wow, that's some serious entitlement right there. I have a friend whose very expensive jacket was stolen right off the back of his seat at a fancy bar, and I think that whoever would just take someone else's nice property assumes that if the owner is rich enough to buy it s/he is rich enough to replace it without a second thought. Rich people deserve to/can afford to lose their shit, right? Did Lindsay think she deserved it more somehow? Because she's famous? The mind boggles, doesn't it, Winona?

[Suzy Q]

For those who are up in arms re: the coat being fur, if she got it from her grandmother, it may be that it was made long ago. I inherited a mink stole from my mother. I gave it to an organization that makes them into teddy bears. But if I had inherited a coat that beautiful? I dunno what I would've done.

I'm not saying I condone fur; just that sometimes family heirlooms are involved from people who really didn't know any better.

As for LL and her actions? Ugh.

[BaltimoreGal]

I do want to be clear- It isn't OK to take other people's things. I don't think that.

And I'm OK with others buying and even wearing old or recycled fur, although it is SO not for me.

But if you get something that precious it is your responsibility to treat it as such. Should someone famous take it? NO. But someone likely will, famous or no. Honestly, I think the girl is lucky she got the coat back!

[chatty cricket]

Sils, exactly what I thought- expensive fur coat, in a BIN?

I wouldn't put my $30 old navy trench in a bin. Who knows what else is in that bin.

[Lisalisa]

Can I just drag the NY Post into this one too... MM is a "co-ed"?! Yes, believe it or not, the little wimmins go to school now too, now that they've forced public colleges to admit women. Thus making those colleges... co-educational.

"Co-ed"? Who says that any more? Since the, what, fifties?

[disnazzio]

Ha! The "co-ed" thing didn't even register in my brain, for some reason. That is completely ridiculous. I haven't heard that phrase used more than five times in my entire 31 years - is the author of that article 90 years old?