The Hollywood star who left everything to open a beach bar

Lindsay Lohan was for years the most persecuted woman in Hollywood and today she turns 32 semi-retired from the entertainment industry and with her own club on a Mykonos beach

Last September, at the show that the designer Palomo Spain organized at the Wellington hotel, a pale and petite woman appeared out of nowhere and everyone who was there whispered: “she is just like Lindsay Lohan”. No, it was Lindsay Lohan (New York, 1986), who turns 32 today. The vision was not only strange because that international star attracted attention among national stars and socialites. She was too because, seeing her, everyone wondered where she had been for all these years.

“This is a safe place. And less demanding. Here I don't turn on the TV and meet the Kardashians. Here I choose what I want to see and how I want to live”.

Gone were the days of her overwhelming fame. First, as the Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan: after a series of successful teen films, she hit the ceiling with Mean Girls (2004), which also dazzled critics and is still today the great teen comedy of the decade. The recording industry also took notice, releasing two teen pop records with moderate chart success. Then she became LiLo, the media figure who kept the world entertained by her nocturnal excesses, her turbulent relationships with both men and women, her car accidents, her run-ins with the law, her erratic life from hotel to hotel, her problems family and her disagreements with the film industry, which began to consider her poison for the box office and an actress, moreover, difficult to manage.

Her last films of the past decade were considered box office flops. In three years (the time she went from Mean Girls to the thriller I Know Who Killed Me), Lindsay went from industry darling to industry's biggest joke. Lohan became everything one would expect from a child star pressured by an unforgiving world: the girl tormented, addicted and lost in life.

Then came a strange time: the parody of herself in films like Scary Movie 5 and a reality show to the greater glory of Oprah Winfrey, the incomprehensible business ventures like her seen and unseen (and critically trashed) collaboration with Emanuel Ungaro in 2010 or the low-budget film The Canyons, for which he was paid $100 a day and whose problematic shooting the society press for months.

After her, Lindsay Lohan more or less decided to disappear and dedicate herself to smaller projects and getting her life in order. When she made an appearance at the Wellington Hotel her voices were hesitant. "I think she now lives in Dubai," someone said. David Martín, editor of the fashion magazine ODDA and responsible for her participation in Madrid Fashion Week that September, confirmed it to us: Lindsay had just arrived from Mykonos and was now living in Dubai. When we contacted her representative to request an interview, they told us that Miss Lohan would not give interviews when she was in Spain.

Indeed, Lohan does not give interviews. Unless it's to reflect her new life as a businesswoman. Lindsay lives today in Dubai, a strange place for a woman, where the law requires the permission of her husband to hold a professional position, she is benevolent with gender violence and sexual relations outside of marriage are punishable. But her law also contemplates something that for Lindsay was worth it: there are no paparazzi chasing her there. Taking pictures in certain restricted areas or intruding on the privacy of others with the use of a camera is illegal.

Her entrepreneurial adventures in the world of hospitality began in 2016 when she, together with the Greek businessman Dennis Papageorgiou, created the Lohan Nightclub in Athens, a nightclub in which she appeared as a promotional attraction twice a month. But her true passion, as she recounted in a recent interview with the New York Times, has put her at the Lohan Beach House, a Mykonos beach venue.

“I am a normal person, a kind person. A good person. I have no bad intentions. My past belongs to the past, ”she declares in the interview. And she adds, in what seems like a blow to the family that has currently taken her place as the world's entertainment: “This is a safe place. And less demanding. Here I don't turn on the TV and meet the Kardashians. Here I choose what I want to see and how I want to live”.

A look at the photos that Instagram returns to us when we look for the location of the Lohan Beach House Mykonos reveals that the place is an Ibizan place with thatched roofs, a huge bar, tables to eat and many umbrellas. What we would call here a beach bar, a little more luxurious if possible. The beaches in Mykonos are not too big, anyway, and this one in particular where Lindsay's place is located is close to another where in 2016 the man who was her fiancé, the young Russian millionaire Egor Tarabasov, assaulted her before a camera. If karma exists, for Lindsay it has come in the form of a deckchair.

Until a few years ago, Lindsay's story seemed doomed to disaster, but this seems like a happy ending. A discreet life in an armored place, her own club on one of her favorite beaches and, as she reveals to the New York Times, two more are on the way: one in Rhodes and one in Dubai. Mind you, Lindsay will always be Lindsay. In the New York newspaper article it is detailed that there are no photos of Lindsay herself (the photographer who traveled to Greece could only take photos of the beach bar and her clients) because he intended to charge for them. Clearly, her new entrepreneurial spirit doesn't stop behind the bar.