LOS ANGELES, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Hollywood bad boy Charlie
Sheen found a kindred spirit in actress Lindsay Lohan when they
worked on the set of "Scary Movie 5" and gave the actress
$100,000 to pay off some of her overdue taxes.
Sheen's camp on Monday confirmed that the "Anger Management"
star gave the cash gift to the in-and-out-of-trouble Lohan who
reportedly owes the U.S. government more than $200,000 in unpaid
taxes for 2009 and 2010.
"Charlie has a long history of helping out his friends in
many ways and this is just another example of that," Sheen's
publicist Larry Solters said in a statement.
Sheen and Lohan worked earlier this year on the horror spoof
"Scary Movie 5" which is scheduled for an April 2013 release.
Lohan's latest performance as late Hollywood screen legend
Elizabeth Taylor did not go so well. Her role in the TV movie
"Liz & Dick" was slammed by critics and largely ridiculed on
Twitter. Cable TV channel Lifetime said on Monday that a modest
3.5 million Americans watched the film at the weekend.
Lohan and Sheen's hard partying and off-screen antics have
made them tabloid favorites.
Lohan, 26, has been mired in legal and financial troubles
and since 2007. Sheen, 47, once the highest-earning actor on
television, was infamously fired from CBS comedy "Two and a Half
Men" in 2011 after making derogatory comments about the show's
creator, Chuck Lorre.
During that time Sheen gripped the public in a meltdown of
drug use, erratic behavior and Internet soliloquies.
Sheen has cleaned up his image in recent months while
starring in "Anger Management" on cable television channel FX.
(Reporting By Eric Kelsey, editing by Jill Serjeant and Andrew
Hay)