Lindsay Lohan befriended by Sheen, loses out as Liz
Lindsay Lohan arrives for a private dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, November 20, 2012, celebrating the premiere of Liz & Dick. Reuters file pic
Sheens camp yesterday confirmed that the Anger Management star gave the cash gift to the in-and-out-of-trouble Lohan who reportedly owes the US government more than US$200,000 in unpaid taxes for 2009 and 2010.
Charlie has a long history of helping out his friends in many ways and this is just another example of that, Sheens publicist Larry Solters said in a statement.
Sheen and Lohan worked earlier this year on the horror spoof Scary Movie 5, which is scheduled for an April 2013 release.
Lohans latest performance as late Hollywood screen legend Elizabeth Taylor did not go so well. Her role in the TV movie Liz & Dick was slammed by critics and largely ridiculed on Twitter. Cable TV channel Lifetime said yesterday that a modest 3.5 million Americans watched the film at the weekend.
Lohan and Sheens hard partying and off-screen antics have made them tabloid favourites.
Lohan, 26, has been mired in legal and financial troubles since 2007. Sheen, 47, once the highest-earning actor on television, was infamously fired from CBS comedy Two and a Half Men in 2011 after making derogatory comments about the shows creator, Chuck Lorre.
During that time Sheen gripped the public in a meltdown of drug use, erratic behaviour and Internet soliloquies.
Sheen has cleaned up his image in recent months while starring in Anger Management on cable television channel FX. Reuters