Lindsay Lohan’s father Michael has been jailed for violating his probation weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife.
The 64-year-old media personality was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida last month for violating probation and was ordered to serve nine months in jail when he appeared in court Wednesday in Florida, per TMZ.
Lohan will receive credit for 38 days served but the sentence may see him spend the remainder of 2025 behind bars.
Sources told TMZ Lohan pled guilty to violating his probation in connection with his February arrest in Texas on a ‘continuous violence against the family’ felony assault charge for allegedly beating up estranged wife Kate Major.
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Lindsay Lohan for comment.
Following the breach last month, authorities issued an arrest warrant for Lohan linked to his probation from a 2022 conviction in Palm Beach, Florida in connection with pocketing money for steering patients toward a specific rehab facility.
Lindsay Lohan’s father Michael has been jailed for violating his probation weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife; he is pictured in a mugshot after his arrest in Palm Beach, Florida last month
The 64-year-old media personality was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida last month for violating probation and was ordered to serve nine months in jail when he appeared in court Wednesday in Florida – seen with Lindsay in a 2024 selfie
Lohan had been arrested in April 2021 in connection with five counts of patient brokering and a count of attempted patient brokering.
His Texas case is still pending, with further sources adding Major appeared in court via Zoom from Texas where she is taking care of the pair’s two young sons.
On the same day her father’s sentencing emerged, actress Lohan, 38, took to Instagram to share snaps of her son Luai, 21 months and husband Bader Shammas, as well as snaps from her promo tour for new film, Freakier Friday.
Major, who was the complainant, contacted authorities after she noticed Michael in the parking lot of a medical building, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sherriff’s Department told Dailymail.com February 23.
Lohan previously told the outlet that he felt Major had been ‘setting him up’ to get arrested, as she had ‘physically and verbally abused him’ prior to his arrest.
Lohan told the outlet: ‘Kate has been threatening to get me violated on probation for a long time. She used these false charges here in Texas to do so. ‘
In the February 21 incident, Major placed a 911 call reporting that ‘she was concerned [Michael] was following her,’ authorities said, leading deputies to respond.
Major told deputies that Michael had ‘flipped’ her out of a chair at their residence a few days earlier, officials said.
Lohan will receive credit for 38 days served but the sentence may see him spend the remainder of 2025 behind bars. Pictured February 2025
On the same day her father’s sentencing emerged, actress Lohan, 38, took to Instagram to share snaps of her son Luai, 21 months and husband Bader Shammas
The star looked radiant as she posed up in glam snaps
She shared a photo of her Freakier Friday co-star Jamie Lee Curtis
The star also posed up on a private jet
Lindsay showed off her chic outfit amid her dad’s legal woes
Major, who has past had a series of legal incidents with her estranged spouse, told authorities that ‘she felt pain and discomfort’ as result of his attack on her.
Officials said that Major, who is mother to two young sons with Michael, showed a female deputy ‘the bruising’ on her body as result of the attack.
Deputies subsequently made contact with Michael, who ‘was arrested without incident at his residence,’ officials said. Michael Lohan was ‘being held on a charge of Continuous Family Violence and a $30,000 bond,’ officials told Dailymail.com.
The former couple parted in September 2018 when Major said in a court filing in Florida that the marital union had been ‘irretrievably broken,’ requesting primary custody of their sons in addition to child support and alimony.
Michael is father to two sons with Major – Landon, 12, and Logan, 10. Michael is also father to four children with ex-wife Dina Lohan, 62: Lindsay, 38, Michael Jr., 36, Aliana, 31, and Dakota, 28.
Michael and Major, a one-time entertainment journalist, wed in October 2014 in Hillsboro Beach, Florida, but Lindsay did not attend the nuptials.
They parted in September 2018 when Major said in a court filing in Florida that the marital union had been ‘irretrievably broken,’ requesting primary custody of their sons in addition to child support and alimony.
The incident comes nearly eight months after the one-time couple were involved in a roadside skirmish in Spring, Texas on June 26, 2024 in which Michael contacted the authorities.
![Major placed a 911 call reporting that 'she was concerned [Michael] was following her,' authorities said, leading deputies to respond. Pictured 2019 in Las Vegas](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/04/23/16/95506241-14507967-Major_placed_a_911_call_reporting_that_she_was_concerned_Michael-a-7_1745421063203.jpg "Lindsay Lohan's troubled father Michael hit with shock sentence for probation violation 11")
Major placed a 911 call reporting that ‘she was concerned [Michael] was following her,’ authorities said, leading deputies to respond. Pictured 2019 in Las Vegas
The father-of-six was pictured in February 2020 at Southampton Village Courthouse in NY
The pair at the time were seen in a clip on TMZ in which they were arguing while in the middle of a road.
The heated exchange was spurred by a number of disagreements and an arrangement in which she stayed at his home while he was not there, Michael told the outlet.
Major shared a clip in which she was in a driver’s seat while arguing with Michael, in a conflict in which no charges were ultimately filed, according to the outlet.
‘Get out of the car, I just spoke with your lawyer,’ Michael was seen yelling at Major, who urged him to step out of the road.
Major called her ex a ‘psychopath’ noting that he was ‘calling the f***ing cops.’
Major was heard saying, ‘These poor kids, these poor children,’ then telling Michael, ‘You’re out of your f***ing mind.’
After an officer appeared on the scene, Major said that Michael had been following her, jumped in front of her car and needed to be taken in on a 5150 evaluation. The clip ended with Major communicating with the officer.
Major said: ‘Oh my God, oh my f***ing God, I didn’t even get out of the driveway.’
The estranged couple was pictured in Philadelphia in July of 2010
Michael explained the factors involved in the tense discussion to TMZ, saying that he had let Major stay at his home while he and his children were not in town.
Michael told the outlet that amid an active ‘order of protection’ against Major, she was told by both him and the district attorney to vacate the premises by 5 p.m.
Michael said that Major ‘took his car, which she was not supposed to do,’ at around 6 p.m., according to the outlet.
Michael told TMZ that Major had been consuming alcohol with guests she invited over to his house, and claimed that he did damage to the security system he has in place.
Michael said that he and Major had an argument concerning her drinking habit, but didn’t notify authorities at the time.
Michael and Major are still legally married, the outlet reported last summer, noting that ‘they’ve been estranged for a few years now.’
