Jewelry Store Charging To Watch Surveillance

The jewelry store at the center of the Lindsay Lohan theft case is charging online users $2.99 to watch the surveillance video showing the actress alleging stealing a $2500 necklace, Radar Online is exclusively reporting.

The video, which was first obtained by The Associated Press and licensed to Entertainment Tonight, shows four different camera angles and is 42 minutes in length.

On necklacevideo.com, a representative associated with Kamofie & Company is promising to post “new content every day” and are attempting to seduce an audience to “come back tomorrow for more.”

“We will help you make-up your mind about what really happened,” the website brazenly declares.

It is yet another bizarre development from the Venice Beach, Calif., store which also attempted but failed to attract a book deal.

In an email promoting the website, necklacevideo.com declares that it can provide answers to whom to believe in the case and even whether Lohan, 24, will “someday win the Academy Award for Best Actress.”

“NecklaceVideo.com is disclosing everything,” it’s said, adding: “The entire video surveillance footage, the real nature of the necklace, the supposed dialogue between Lindsay and the salesgirl.”

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Lindsay Lohan's Klepto Past To Form Case

Lindsay Lohan has a history of stealing -- that's what the Los Angeles District Attorney will tell a judge who will decide whether to send the Mean Girls star to jail or not, Radar Online has exclusively learned.

Lindsay Lohan's lawyer must notify Judge Keith Schwartz by Wednesday, March 23 if she plans on taking a plea deal, and Radar Online is exclusively reporting that if the actress doesn't take the plea deal, Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers will include as part of her case, past incidents in which Lindsay has been accused of theft.

"There is very damaging information about Lindsay's past evidence of thefts, including a stolen Rolex, which a friend of hers reported as stolen last April 2010, which will be made public if Lindsay doesn't take the plea deal. Lindsay was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department last spring after a friend reported that after leaving the Rolex at Lohan's apartment, it wasn't returned immediately. Actually, it was quite a bit of time later that the watch was returned to the person. The watch was valued at a whopping, 35k, and like the current theft case, Lindsay was photographed wearing the watch. Lindsay wasn't charged in that case because the victim became uncooperative as soon as the watch was returned. The D.A. will be sending investigators out from the office to talk to the victim. Meyers wants to know if there was a financial pay off" a source close to the situation tells us.

Lohan, 24, was also accused of stealing a mink coat from Maria Markova in New York City in January 2008. Markova said at the time that Lohan took the coat at a nightclub, 1 Oak. The coat was valued at $12k. Markova claimed she was sitting next to Lohan at the club when the coat was allegedly stolen. Markova said the next time she saw the coat, Lohan was wearing it in a magazine picture. Lindsay was not criminally charged in that incident either. "Meyers will be reviewing that information as well. It will absolutely be brought up either at the preliminary hearing or the trial. This will establish a pattern of behavior on, that Meyers will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lindsay is guilty in this case."

"It doesn't matter that Lindsay wasn't criminally charged in those previous incidents. Meyers can, and will subpoena police that investigated those, and as well as the accusers if she needs to. Lindsay has major entitlement issues, which have led her down this very dark road. If Lindsay is smart, she will take the plea deal. Lindsay won't know what will hit her if the case proceeds to a preliminary hearing, and trial. Meyers is tough as nails, make no mistake about it. Lindsay truly has no idea how bad this could get, and how fast. This could truly ruin her career. Look at the (Winona) Ryder case, her career suffered after the guilty conviction, and she didn't have the criminal record that Lindsay has," the source says.

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Jewelry Store Is 'Just Trying To Make A Buck'

The jewelry store that accused Lindsay Lohan of stealing a necklace is destroying her life -- just to make a fast buck -- says a good pal of Lindsay's in an exclusive interview with Radar Online.

"I see, and I know the truth, says Nathan Folks, the movie producer who cast Lohan in his upcoming crime drama Escaping the Game.

"It is hard to watch what this jewelry store is putting her through when she is innocent. They feel justified destroying her life, just to make a buck, it's really terrible."

As Radar Online. has previously reported, Lohan, 24, has pleaded not guilty to felony grand theft charges after being accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace from Kamofie & Company, a jewelry store in Venice Beach, California.

Folks insists Lindsay is innocent and says the jewelry store simply wants publicity.

Kamofie & Co has previously sold the surveillance footage of Lohan in the store at the time of the alleged incident.

"The jewelry store had many numbers for Lindsay, they could have reached her and asked for the necklace. Why didn't they? It's a ploy for publicity," Folks told Radar Online.

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Jewelry Store -- Auctioning Lindsay's Necklace

The $2,500 necklace that Lindsay Lohan allegedly stole from a jewelry store is officially hitting the auction block ... TMZ has learned.

A rep for the Kamofie and Co. jewelry store announced, "We have decided to sell the diamond necklace through auction, and give the proceeds to charity."

As for the specific charity -- the rep states, “We invite the public to make suggestions as to the most appropriate charity to receive the benefit of the sale’s proceeds."

According to the rep, the auction will not take place until AFTER the criminal case is resolved "by plea bargain, or trial or some other means."

The necklace is currently being held as evidence by the L.A. County District Attorney.

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Lindsay on Surveillance Tape -- I Told You So!

Sources close to Lindsay Lohan tell TMZ she thinks the fact Kamofie & Co. sold the surveillance video of her proves what she's been saying all along ... they are just using her to make a quick buck.

As we previously reported, the jewelry store worked with a broker to peddle the tape -- despite the fact lawyers for the prosecution asked them not to, fearing it would ruin their case.

Now the tape is out there ... and sources close to Lindsay tell us she feels vindicated. Lindsay insists it proves Kamofie & Co. are trying to capitalize on the situation and are motivated entirely by money.

Lindsay hopes the store's actions will sway public opinion -- and the prosecution -- to see things her way.

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Lindsay Lohan Surveillance Tape Has Been Sold

The jewelry store surveillance tape that could be make-or-break in the felony theft case against Lindsay Lohan has been sold, Radar Online is exclusively reporting.

The security video was sold by the store itself! The footage was sold to a company that intended to make the footage public. Entertainment Tonight licensed rights to the video from that company.

This development could complicate the case against Lindsay, and Radar Online has learned that it is causing turmoil in both the prosecution and defense camps.

"Neither side wanted it released," a well-placed source tells us. "Neither side sanctioned this sale."

Lohan is accused of stealing a necklace valued at $2,500 from Kamofie & Co., a jeweler located near her new home in L.A.'s Venice Beach district.

The starlet is due back in court March 10 when she has to tell the judge if she's accepting a plea deal that he's already warned her will come with a jail sentence or try her hand at trial by jury.

Entertainment Tonight will broadcast the surveillance video Monday.

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Lindsay Faces Felony Charges For Jewelry Theft

Lindsay Lohan is in legal hot water once more.

TMZ.com reports the troubled actress, 24, will be charged with felony grand theft after allegedly swiping a $2,500 necklace from a Venice, Calif. jewelry store.

If convicted, Lohan faces up to three years in prison, the site reports.

For her part, Lohan claims that her stylist failed to return the "one-of-a-kind" bauble on time to Kamofie & Company, the store that lent it out to her January 22.

Though the piece has since been returned, Lohan was captured on the store's security camera wearing the necklace and is said to have been photographed with the accessory one week later.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office is expected to file charges as early as Monday.

The Mean Girls actress remains on probation stemming from a 2007 DUI arrest and is due in court for a progress hearing February 25. She completed a 90-day rehab stint at L.A.'s Betty Ford Center on January 3.

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