Attorney: Lohan may sue jewelry store

The Lohan family lawyer confirmed Tuesday that Lindsay Lohan is considering a lawsuit against the jewelry store that sold broadcast rights to a surveillance video that the store owners allege show her stealing a $2,500 necklace.

"We are investigating right now the possibility of a lawsuit," East Meadow attorney Stephanie Ovadia told Newsday, "on the grounds of unauthorized exploitation of her likeness and her image, unjust enrichment, invasion of privacy, emotional distress and a couple of other things that we're researching."

Excerpts of the 42-minute video, which has been entered into evidence in her pending trial for felony grand theft, aired Monday and Tuesday on "Entertainment Tonight," which licensed the footage from the commercial-images division of The Associated Press.

"As of this moment, we have never received any contact or communication of any type from Lindsay Lohan's attorneys or her representative that she intended to file a legal complaint in this matter," said Christopher Spencer, spokesman for the Venice, Calif., jeweler Kamofie & Co., in a statement Tuesday. "The bottom line is, we felt there was far too much speculation about the video recording, and that it was right for the public to be able to see the video itself."

"Any celebrity who walks into any establishment by themselves or with their children or other family members will always have to feel that somebody's filming them to potentially sell it for a profit," Dina Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's mother and manager, told Newsday. "When they're not making movies they shouldn't have to feel like they are."

Lohan, 24, has maintained the necklace was borrowed and returned late, and has pleaded not guilty.Said Spencer, "Kamofie and Company never gave permission to Ms. Lohan to remove the necklace from the store." Lohan is due in court Thursday in the case.