It never rains but it pours in the ever-eventful life of one Ms Lindsay Lohan. Film roles may be a bit few and far between, but what does that matter when you're continually in the headlines for your love life and brushes with the law?

Lindsay may have mellowed out after settling down with girlfriend Samantha Ronson, but this week she's been named as the defendant in a lawsuit dating back to July 2007, the date of the actress' second DUI arrest that summer.

Lindsay was charged with a DUI and possession of cocaine after arriving at the Santa Monica police station after a night out in Malibu - remember? She'd embarked on a high speed car chase down the Pacific Coast Highway, chasing another vehicle which had her assistant inside.

After trying to tell the cops ‘the black guy' was driving, police found coke in one of Lindsay's pockets, prompting the classic excuse along the lines of ‘er, these aren't my pants.' I must try that one time. I mean, how are you really sposed to know whose trousers you go around wearing? Honestly!

Anyway, three guys by the names of Ronnie Black, Jakon Sutter and Dante Nigro were caught up in Lindsay's soap opera summer that night after Lindsay hijacked Dante's SUV for her car chase. While one managed to get out, Dante and Jakon were trapped inside the car with the angry redhead. Beware the angry redhead!

The suit states that despite begging by the plaintiffs Lohan "refused to slow or stop, but instead responded with abusive cursing and vulgar language." That doesn't sound like Lindsay at all! Haha. She also informed her two unwilling passengers that "she knew people who could mess up their lives if they told anyone about this," and that "because she was a celebrity she could do whatever she wants."

The suit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

Lindsay's very busy lawyer told gossip site TMZ that the suit is "absurd," adding, "these guys had the night of their lives."

I'm sure it was just a dream come true.

And because a picture speaks a thousand words, let's look again at Lindsay's mugshot from that night, should we?

And just in case you thought Lindsay's love life was nice and settled, even if her legal one wasn't, think again. Britain's 3am is reporting that Lindsay found herself at a recent party in New York and was all over Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford like a rash.

Word is that Lindsay made sure she was "standing in such a way that some part of her body was always touching him," and got cracked on to him with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. There was innuendo, whispering, and googly eyes, people!

His cast mates have warned him off after she's been calling the popular pretty boy and sending him several texts a day - not just because she's 22 going on 42 and her weave needs work. But because she's got a girlfriend, and a potentially angry one at that, if Lindsay went back to the ways of the willy. Beware the Ronson wrath!

Suspiciously, this isn't the first time Lindsay's shown interest in a bloke over the last couple of months. She was apparently pestering Olympic legend Michael Phelps for a date after his return from Beijing.

Another stroke of luck for Team Britney

Britney Spears' winning streak continues the same week as her latest song ‘Womanizer' shot to the top of the US charts (her first since ‘Baby One More Time' almost ten years ago!)

This time round the singer's had good news in the form of her trial for driving without a valid California licence being dismissed in Los Angeles after a jury deadlocked 10-2 in favour of not guilty.

The whole case (which seems a bit of a waste of time, if you ask me) stemmed from an incident in August 2007 when Britney hit a parked car in Los Angeles. She settled with the owner for damages, but authorities realised the singer only had a Louisiana drivers' licence, not a California one, despite living in Los Angeles since the age of 18. California drivers are required to have a California licence if the state is their primary place of residence.

If found guilty, Britney faced six months imprisonment and a $1000 fine. The singer's lawyer declined the chance to settle for probation and a fine, saying the singer didn't want a criminal conviction.

The defence argued that Louisiana, not California, was Britney's primary place of residence - which may very well come true in the near future if the singer has her way. Word is she's building a place near to where her mother and sister live and wants to move there with her two boys permanently.

The jury struggled to reach a decision for a couple of days earlier this week, and were forced to have Britney's dad Jamie's evidence read back to them by a court official because they struggled to understand his thick Southern accent.

Meanwhile, the singer's working hard on her dance moves and is due to start rehearsal for her next world tour in January. The tour kicks off in March.

Madonna and Guy: the latest

Excitingly, this one looks set to run and run and muck is flying freely from both sides. I do hate a dignified divorce. The latest below.

- Rocco Ritchie was spotted out and about in New York wearing a Yankees t-shirt (Alex Rodriguez's team)
- David Banda's natural father now believes his son would be better off with him in Malawi than with a husbandless tycoon in New York City;
- Madonna's pals have struck back, leaking that guy is a ‘fake, a phoney' and, worst of all, ‘not a macho man.'
- Said pals have also blabbed that Mr Ritchie was a gold-digger of the highest order and is determined to grab half of Madge's fortune;
- Guy is convinced Madonna is spying on him with ‘KGB-like' tactics after some of his divorce strategy was leaked.

Spotted

Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty holidaying again on Italy's Amalfi Coast - this time with all swimsuits on...Britney Spears heading to work inside a Hollywood dance studio...Paris Hilton prancing through London with a Union Jack purse...Actor Laurence Fox leaving London's Portland hospital after wife Billie Piper gave birth to baby son Winston James...Tuxedo-clad twosome Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attending a private party in New York...Pals Liv Tyler and Kate Hudson posing together at the re-opening of Burberry in Beverly Hills...Christina Aguilera performing in Kiev, Ukraine...Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon striking a pose at the Whitney Museum of American Art Gala in NYC...Tara Reid, wearing a curious turquoise ensemble, strolling round Miami Beach...