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Lindsay Lohan’s Childhood Home Headed to Auction After Dina Drops Foreclosure Fight

Erstwhile momager Dina Lohan has decided to stop fighting with the bank and let them have the Merrick, NY, home where she raised her ginger-haired movie star daughter Lindsay Lohan. After years of court battles, Lohan failed to respond to a foreclosure lawsuit, and a New York judge has ruled the home will be auctioned off in 90 days.

According to The Blast, which had the scoop on the filing, Dina owes just shy of $1.5 million on the Long Island home and failed to show up in court to respond to the suit.

Dina purchased the place in 2004 for $650,000, and later took out an $1.3 million loan against the home. In 2014, JPMorgan Chase Bank sued Dina for defaulting on the loan, but she was able to hold off foreclosure and keep the home until the bank went back to court in February 2016 to restart foreclosure proceedings.

According to current estimates, the two-story home could be worth as much as $1 million, with just over 4,000 square feet. To give you an idea of the local market, the current median listing price in Merrick is $619,000.

According to Page Six, at one point, Lindsay gave Dina $40,000 to keep the house in the family. Apparently, the cash infusion didn’t make a dent in the massive debt.

The $40,000 was reportedly the subject of an ugly fight in 2012 between Dina and the star of “The Parent Trap,” which started in the back of a limousine and ended with police being called to the home.

In 2013, while LiLo was filming her docuseries for OWN network, Oprah herself drove to the Merrick home to confront the starlet about not showing up to work.

“You need to cut the bull–,” Winfrey told Lindsay. “Keep your commitments.”

The soon-to-be-auctioned home was also featured in the opening scenes of Dina’s own reality show star turn in “Living Lohan.”

With so much Hollywood history, it’s easy to imagine the home will draw a lot of attention at auction. The Lohan family has a knack for that sort of thing.

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