NEWSMAKERS

June 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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Source: Lohan alcohol monitor went off

LOS ANGELES

Lindsay Lohan’s alcohol-monitoring bracelet went off after the actress appeared at Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards, a source familiar with her probation said Tuesday. The alert could result in another appearance by Lohan before a judge whose patience has worn thin with the actress for repeated missteps during her probation.

It remained unclear why the bracelet went off. The source, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told The Associated Press that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel would receive a report on the alert soon.

The bracelet is designed to test the skin for alcohol every half-hour by sampling a person’s perspiration.

Lohan has been required to wear an alcohol monitor since May 24, when she appeared before Revel days after missing a court hearing.

Gary Coleman’s will filed in Utah court

SALT LAKE CITY

Gary Coleman’s will names a friend and former manager as executor of the late child star’s estate and specifies that he wanted to be cremated. The will was filed Tuesday in 4th District Court in Provo, where the 42-year-old Coleman died May 28 after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Coleman appointed friend Dion Mial as his executor.

Coleman says in the 1999 will that he wanted to be remembered in a wake conducted by people who had no financial ties to the star of the sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes.”

The will was written years before Coleman met Shannon Price on a movie set in 2006. The couple married in 2007 and divorced in 2008. A representative says Price believes she has a claim to the estate and had planned to meet with her lawyer Tuesday. Although the couple was divorced, they still lived together in Santaquin, about 55 miles south of Salt Lake City. It was Price — who was named in an advanced health-care directive — who ordered that Coleman be taken off life support.

Prosecutor: Man had obsession

LOS ANGELES

A man accused of stalking Shawn Johnson harbored a dangerous obsession to marry the Olympic gold-medalist, a prosecutor claimed Tuesday. Robert O’Ryan, 36, sat quietly as prosecutor Wendy Segall described how he drove from Jacksonville, Fla., to Los Angeles in an attempt to meet Johnson.

At one point in her opening statements in O’Ryan’s criminal trial, Segall produced the numerous weapons — a handgun, shotgun, knife and club — found in his car, which was searched after he jumped a fence at the studios where Johnson was performing on the reality competition “Dancing with the Stars.”

Ryan has pleaded innocent to felony stalking and burglary charges and two misdemeanor counts of carrying a concealed weapon. He faces nearly four years in prison and two years in jail if convicted. On Monday, O’Ryan entered a plea of innocent by reason of insanity. If a judge rules he is insane, O’Ryan could be sent to a state mental hospital.

Ace Frehley memoir coming next year

NEW YORK

A kiss-and-tell memoir is coming from Ace Frehley, former lead guitarist of the heavy-metal band. Gallery Books announced Tuesday that the 59-year-old Frehley is working on “No Regrets,” a look back at a “life of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.”

Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, plans to release in the summer of 2011.