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Lindsay Lohan is suing the creators of 'Grand Theft Auto'.
The 'Mean Girls' actress - who turned 28 today (02.07.14) - has finally hit the video game makers with a civil lawsuit after they allegedly used her image for a character named Lacey Jonas without her permission.
The star's lookalike alter-ego parties at infamous celebrity haunt, the Hotel Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, "a place where the plaintiff once lived and often frequents", according to the case documents.
According to the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column, the troubled actress is coming after game creators Take-Two Interactive for an unspecified sum of money.
Lindsay has been threatening legal action since December, shortly after the fifth installment of the video game was released, and is annoyed because companies usually pay to copy her likeness.
The legal papers claim the "game features a mission where the plaintiff's look-alike asks another character to take her home and escape the paparazzi" and features a character sporting the same " likeness, clothing, outfits, clothing line products, ensemble in the form of hats, hair style, sunglasses, jean shorts worn by [Lohan]...before the release of the GTA V video game."
The video game cover also strikingly resembles a famous picture of Lindsay in a swimsuit taking a selfie and making a peace sign.
The gaming company has declined to comment.

Robbie Williams was granted the Freedom of Stoke-on-Trent yesterday (01.07.14).
The 'Angels' hitmaker - who is currently on the UK leg of his 'Swings Both Ways' tour - was incredibly "proud" to receive the honour in a secret ceremony attended by his parents, pregnant wife Ayda Field, their daughter Teddy, 21 months, and Stoke-on-Trent Lord Mayor Majid Khan and paid a heartfelt tribute to his home town.
He said: "I can see how much this means to everyone in the room. I can see how proud they are of me and I am incredibly proud to be from Stoke on Trent - no matter how far away I am or how long I am away I am a Stokie...
"It's so surreal to feel I've got this huge honour and I haven't totally taken it in. But it's so poignant for me to have my little girl with me and my wife and my unborn baby.
"This is Teddy's first visit to Stoke-on-Trent. I grew up here, her life is so different to mine. At her age Stoke-on-Trent was my whole world and I dreamed of getting into another world.
"All my dreams came true but as they come true you realise how much you miss the freedom you had as a kid and the safety and security you feel in your own little world. Stoke-on-Trent made me. My humour, my cheeky chappie bit, that's all from here. Cut me and it's through me like a stick of rock."
Robbie also tucked into specially-requested bacon and cheese Staffordshire oatcakes and revealed both his young daughter and his American wife are fans of the local delicacy.
He said: "Ayda loves oatcakes. My mum brings them over to LA every times she comes so we usually have a stock in the freezer. You can't beat them. Teddy loves them too. Her second word was 'duck' which makes her a true Stokie."

Susan Sarandon thought Melissa McCarthy was "brave as hell" while filming her new movie 'Tammy'.
The 67-year-old actress, who plays a hard-drinking grandmother in the film, which was directed by Melissa's husband and co-writer Ben Falcone, claims the star went above and beyond when playing a woman who discovers her husband has been unfaithful.
Asked what Melissa is like, she said: "Smart, brave as hell, so sweet. I think that comes out in the movie. She can do anything, and somehow you forgive her, because she is such a good person, such a sweet person."
And the veteran actress admired the way her co-star worked with her spouse.
Talking about her working relationship with Ben, she added: "As a team, the two of them were very collaborative. I never sensed any problems.
"They'd been working together for a long time already, so this wasn't something new.
"It's not guaranteed that people that are couples necessarily can work smoothly together, but they did."
Susan also twice appeared on Melissa's CBS show 'Mike And Molly' and found her co-star has a "sense of the bigger picture" when it came to directing.
She said: "The Clint Eastwoods, the Sean Penns, the Robert Redfords of the world, they know how pieces have to fit together. They're not just trying to satisfy their ego. And she definitely has that.
"She wants to serve the whole - even though she carried the movie herself. And she has so much energy."
Susan went on to express her amazement at the amount of work Melissa had to put into the show and she feels she has a bright future as a director as well as an actress.
She said: "It's just amazing, physically, what she had to do, and at the same time, would go to the monitor and would notice things and make suggestions.
"And we all would go to the monitor and make suggestions. But I'm sure she'll be directing more in the future."
'Tammy' is in cinemas now.

Neil Patrick Harris is selling his Californian home for $2.995 million.
The 'How I Met Your Mother' star and his fiancé David Burtka have listed the sprawling 4,191-square-foot estate in Sherman Oaks, California, just four years after moving in.
The couple attracted hundreds of potential buyers at an open house event last weekend and have received numerous offers - some of which are even above the asking price, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
Neil, 41, and husband David - with whom he has three-year-old twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace, born to them via a surrogate - bought the house in 2010 for $2.1 million.
The stars opened the doors to the lavish pad in an episode of Oprah Winfrey's talk show 'Oprah's Next Chapter' and in the pages of InStyle magazine.
The stunning two-storey home boasts six bedrooms and five bathrooms. The spacious garden area also contains a built-in pizza oven, a swimming pool and an outdoor shower.
Neil recently won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'.
The star lost 22lbs to play the titular role in the stage production.
Earlier this year, Neil said goodbye to his famous TV character Barney Stinson as hit sitcom 'How I Met Your Mother' ended after nine years.

Chris Martin believes music saved his life.
The Coldplay frontman was able to channel his feelings during his marriage problems to Gwyneth Paltrow - who he split from in March - into new album 'Ghost Stories' and feels "grateful" he has an outlet for his emotions.
He told Steve Wright's Big Show on Radio 2: "You can choose your paths in life, I find, when you get to a point where you're like 'I could either jump off a bridge or I could try and turn this around'.
"I'm sure lots of people have that in much harder instances. You just find the right tools.
"I feel so grateful. Especially over the last couple of years, music has been alchemising.
"Going through something difficult in your life, music for me is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out. That's always what I'm doing in the middle of the night."
Chris - who has children Apple, 10, and Moses, eight, with Gwyneth - claims he "needed" to write the group's new album, and has no idea how other people have perceived the record.
He added: "It's so important for me that album, it hasn't really crossed my mind what it means for anyone else. Because I needed it.
"I'm very grateful to be here. Every day is a blessing. That's how I feel."
Meanwhile, the 'Magic' singer admitted he has always given 10 per cent of his earnings to charity and thinks others should follow suit.
He said: When I got pocket money as a kid, my mum said you should give 10 per cent away, and so we just keep that rule.
"I don't think it is corny at all, I think it would be amazing if all companies did that."

Justin Bieber was on his "best behaviour" during a night out in Los Angeles on Sunday (29.06.14).
The 'Boyfriend' star went to see his tour DJ, Tay James, on the decks at State Social House in West Hollywood and went for dinner with friends, where he stunned guests by being "respectful" and polite, as well as picking up the bill for his entire group.
A source told the New York Daily News newspaper's Confidenti@l column: "He was on his best behaviour. He was very respectful and he even paid for everyone's tab."
The pop star, 20, also reportedly left a 40 per cent tip on the dinner for the waiting staff.
Justin, who made a groveling apology last month after two videos emerged showing him using the N-word when he was 16 and making racist jokes, was sadly back to behaving badly on Tuesday (01.07.14) when police were called twice to his Beverley Hills home after complaints about loud music.
According to TMZ, the 'Believe' hitmaker was hosting a party for guests including Johnny Manziel, Floyd Mayweather, Tyrese, Tyga, and Chantel Jeffries - and after police spoke to a guest, the group agreed to turn down the volume.
However, a short time later, police returned to the building following another complaint, this time over female fans who were screaming and making noise outside.

Robin Thicke's new album is an "apology" to his estranged wife.
The 'Blurred Lines' hitmaker has poured his heartbreak over his split from Paula Patton into new record 'Paula' and says the songs have helped him "figure out" his personal situation.
He said: "The album is exactly what happens when you lose the love of your life and you're trying to figure it out in your head.
"How am I going to move on and get through it all? We just weren't happy together anymore and I still had so much I wanted to apologise for, and things I wanted to take responsibility for, so that's pretty much what the album's about."
And despite being the subject matter for the songs, Robin admits Paula - the mother of his four-year-old son Julian - hasn't heard much of the album yet.
He added in an interview with Hot 97 radio: "She hasn't heard [the album]. She's only heard a few songs. I don't think she wants to hear it right now. I can't speak for her, but I think space is an important part of any healing process."
The 'Get Her Back' singer has made numerous public pleas to win back his wife of eight years, but they haven't seen one another for several months.
He added: "I try to keep most of that private, but, I haven't seen her for four months.
"If you've been together that long, you kinda became adults together instead of being adults and then meeting. But maybe a year or two off, we'll become our own people without each other and then it will be meant to be."

Professor Green is fed up with Twitter.
The rapper has announced he plans to curb his excessive use of the social media site, stop spewing inane "digital diarrhoea" and restrict himself to meaningful updates because he's sick of the banality of his online interactions.
He wrote in an article on The Independent newspaper's website: "I'm having a reboot, a digital do-over. I've been on Twitter since January 2009, and I'm tired of the digital diarrhoea that has spewed forth from my fingers in the 140 format.
"Over the last five years, I've tweeted over 54,000 times - an average of 27.47 times per day. From last night I've decided to erase my timeline and start over. I'm deleting all previous tweets and unfollowing the 1,600 people who clutter up my timeline."
The 30-year-old star, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, wants to start anew and make sure only the most important aspects of his life like his marriage to Millie Mackintosh and his music are documented.
He continued: "I don't regret a single thing I've tweeted but I want to erase the past and start afresh. I've done a lot of my growing up in public; I've wrestled with a lot of demons, come to terms with many life-altering experiences and gotten married; most of, if not all, of which has been documented in some way shape or form on the internet.
"When I'm 80 years old sucking soup through a straw and my great grandkids are scrolling through my timeline, do I want them knowing I told two million people that I took a s**t at 4pm on a Thursday? Not really."
The 'Just Be Good to Green' rapper also lamented the loss of basic grammar that Twitter is encouraging, and wants to do his great grandmother Edie proud by filling his time with more worthwhile activities.
He concluded: "We're so concerned with documenting our digital persona that we've forgotten to experience reality. There's now a generation of kids watching an entire gig through their phone. Rather than experiencing the experience, we're Instagramming it. Make memories people, not Vine videos.
"It's time to be more considered. Instead of sitting on my phone, I'm going to do things that benefit my mind; read a book, go to an art gallery, meet a mate for a coffee."

Sam Smith's home was burgled while he was at Glastonbury.
The 'Stay With Me' hitmaker spent his weekend at the legendary music festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, South West England but returned home to find that thieves had taken advantage of his absence by helping themselves to his possessions.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Sam and his friends were all down at the festival when the break-in happened.
"They took a number of items from his property.
"Sam was gutted when he got back. He's clearly paying the price of fame."
However, it's not the first time the 22-year-old star - who performed his own set and joined Disclosure on stage during the music event - has been the victim of a robbery, as Sam's south London flat was also broken into earlier this year and he is now thinking of moving house.
The source added: "Sam loves where he lives but his management are looking to move him somewhere else as his current place is not very secure."
Meanwhile, the 'Money on My Mind' singer admitted on the weekend that his favourite thing about the music festival was seeing people covered in dirt.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz, he said: "What do I love about Glastonbury? Mud on sexy bodies!"