Lindsay Lohan misses opportunity to be a $150,000 date.
An Austrian entrepreneur says Lindsay Lohan won’t make it to Vienna’s famous Opera Ball as his celebrity date after all.
Richard Lugner, a quirky 77-year-old who each year invites a different female star to the flashy gala, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Lohan wasn’t coming.
He says he will take male German singer, producer and entertainer Dieter Bohlen instead.
The limelight-loving Lugner says he is still looking forward to the evening and that he had received many date offers from people who “felt sorry for him.”
Lugner’s comments came just hours before the start of the all-night extravaganza that attracts socialites, dignitaries and politicians. His recent dates include Nicollette Sheridan, Dita Von Teese and Paris Hilton .
The ‘Mean Girls’ actress had been invited to the annual event by rich businessman Richard Lugner but failed to board her flight from Los Angeles to London because she was shopping in duty free.
Lugner claims the British Airways aircraft had waited for the 23-year-old star – who was then due to get a connecting flight to Vienna – but when she boarded she was asked to leave because she couldn’t afford the $22,000 the carrier charged for the two-hour delay.
Lugner, 77, said: “She wanted to pay it, but her card’s credit limit was not high enough.”
