As it turns out, Lindsay Lohan’s publicist Steve Honig did actually exist. He wasn’t just a cracked-out hallucination of Lindsay Lohan, and he wasn’t just Mother Crackhead’s PR-nom-de-plume. He lives and breathes and hits the pipe just like everyone involved in the disaster area known as the Lohan family. And Steve Honig has finally had enough. Steve Honig just quit. Poor dude. Pour 13 shots of Jose Cuervo for Honig!

Lindsay Lohan’s longtime publicist Steve Honig has called it quits — and TMZ has learned, it was all over tension with Lindsay’s dad.

Michael Lohan tells us, he butted heads with Steve big time in the weeks leading up to his Lindsay intervention on Friday — but things came to a head over the weekend, when Steve released a statement saying Lindsay’s management team had nothing to do with Michael’s plans.

Michael flipped out on Steve over the statement, calling him a “f**king liar” in a text message.

Sources tell us, Steve threw in the towel last night — quitting for good — nearly two years after he signed on to be Lindsay’s publicist.

Sources close to Lindsay tell us, Steve’s decision to quit had nothing to do with the actress … just her dad.

Steven and Lindsay have been through a lot together — Lindsay’s jewelry heist, her numerous car accidents, health scares, and 911 calls.

Steve tells us he didn’t quit purely over MiLo, saying … “Michael wishes he were that important.”

[From TMZ]

What I found interesting is that in the past… say, three weeks of Lohan Crack Dramz, Honig was nowhere. He wasn’t issuing any of his patented delusional statements about “what really happened” during this incident or that incident. I think Honig backed away when Dina and Lindsay got into that fight in the limo to Long Island. He never said anything about that, to my memory. So, did Honig really “quit” over Michael Lohan? Eh. So stupid.

Also: TMZ reports that Lindsay is “careening toward financial ruin.” Because this is 2009, I guess, and we’re supposed to believe that Lindsay isn’t millions of dollars in debt at this point.

Lindsay Lohan is careening toward financial ruin … by making stupid business decisions and recklessly stashing her money in unsafe places — this according to her management team.

TMZ has seen text messages between Michael Lohan and Lindsay’s lawyer Dave Feldman, discussing Lindsay’s recent promotion deal with an energy drink named Mr. Pink.

As we reported, Lindsay flew out to L.A. earlier this month in order to attend a launch event for the beverage — just hours after her blowout fight with her mother Dina in NYC.

In the text messages, Michael claims Lindsay was paid $150,000 for the event IN CASH … which Lindsay then gave to her brother Michael Jr. to hold in his bank account for safe keeping. Michael expressed fear that Dina had access to Michael Jr.’s account and would raid it for herself.

Dave expresses outrage in response, claiming Lindsay should have looped him and her business manager in to the Mr. Pink transaction in order to provide her more financial protection … but she never did.

In the messages, Dave says Lindsay was even more stupid for not including her management team on the Mr. Pink deal because — as Dave says — they could have gotten her even more money for the job … but again, she didn’t.

As we reported, Lindsay’s dad is terrified she has fallen back off the wagon and needs a conservatorship because she can’t handle her affairs — and based on these texts, he might have a point.

[From TMZ]

Will someone send this to the IRS and to Lindsay’s creditors? Because I think this is less about “evidence to support Lindsay’s bad money management” and more about “Lindsay is a cracked-out tax evader who is millions of dollars in debt.” Of course she gets paid in cash. I’m sure she gets cash for ALL of her “work”. And of course she tries to hide it… from her mom. From her creditors. From the government. Of course.

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