But a different hotel.

See? Things are changing!

LINDSAY Lohan is living it up in a hotel again – but at the Beverly Hills Hotel, not her old haunt, the Chateau Marmont. The allure could be that while papa razzi can line up outside the hotel grounds, they’re not allowed onto the property and can’t get a clear shot of her com ing or going. On Wednesday night, Lohan was “dropped off in a huge Cadillac Escalade with a girlfriend,” our spy said.

I had a dream last night that I was in Japan and Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson were there and they got in this fantastic karate battle with these paparazzi and this music started playing and SamRo was totally kicking ass. And then I was just like “Man, I hope someone puts this shit on YouTube.”

While Molly Sims spilled what looks to be a strong vodka cran on her lovely white blouse at Samantha Ronson’s birthday party, SamRo herself walks out looking clean as a whistle in an all-white ensemble. Hey, you know what else is white? Yeah.

Meanwhile, pay special attention to the really cool pill-shaped necklace she’s sporting (wonder what’s inside?) and the two packs of Marlboro Reds that apparently wouldn’t fit into her huge-ass bag. You’re so cool, Samantha.

So what was Samantha Ronson — Lindsay’s BFF, drug dealer, photo pimp and sometime lesbian lover — doing while Lindsay was hiding out after her Tuesday morning DUI arrest?

Shopping!

SamRo was spotted at Dior and Hermes on Tuesday.

Maybe she was buying presents for Lindsay! Or maybe she just doesn’t care that Lindsay is totally and completely fucked. Or maybe, just maybe, she’s the only person in Lindsay’s life who’s not trying to leverage Lindsay’s pain to land herself an appearance on every entertainment news show and a quote in every gossip publication. Maybe.

Lindsay Lohan and BFF/on-and-off lesbian lover Samantha Ronson are wasting no time in celebrating Lindsay’s release from rehab and SamRo’s new, even butcher, haircut. While World War III was kicking off over at Hyde, Lindsay and Samantha were both spotted at Les Deux (the photos are from last night). Lindsay later met up with friends at Mel’s Diner in WeHo. SamRo didn’t appear to make the trip.

Photo credit: Buzz Foto

DJ Samantha Ronson, known more lately for what her fingers are doing with Lindsay Lohan than what they’re doing with a turntable, has struck back against two gossip blogs with a $20 million libel suit.

Ronson, herself a budding celebrity deejay, is striking back at suggestions that cocaine found in Lohan’s car after an infamous fender-bender was actually hers.

Named as defendants were Jill Ishkanian, who runs the Sunset Photo and News Agency, and Mario Lavandeira, who blogs as Perez Hilton.

In June, Hilton repeated the cocaine claim that first appeared on CelebrityBabylon.com, a Web site operated by Sunset Photo.

That site claimed Ronson was “making a tidy profit on the side, shilling Lohan, 20, out to photographers eager to get her photo looking passed out and wasted.”

It continued: “If that wasn’t shocking enough, sources say that it was Ronson who was holding the cocaine later found in Lindsay’s car.”

First of all, everyone ran that story. Samantha’s suing Sunset Photo because, for lack of a better phrase, they started it, and because flat-out accusing someone of doing cocaine is an easy way to wind up on the losing end of a libel suit. (And, to clarify, every time the word “cocaine” is used on this blog, you should be aware that it’s our code word for “popsicle.” Inside joke. We know no one in Hollywood would ever use illegal narcotics. Winners don’t do drugs. But they do like popsicles.) She’s suing Perez to get back at him for all the mean shit he runs about Lindsay, because Lord knows after he settles this suit with X17 et al, he’s not going to have a cent to pay her with. She’s just trying to make his life miserable. Which is, you know, fine with me.

Apparently Lindsay is spending her time at Promises trying to rehab her relationship with Samantha Ronson as much as she’s dealing with her drug problem, but hopefully she’s doing better with the drugs …

According to Star magazine, Lindsay and SamRo have been sending extremely charged MySpace and text messages back and forth ever since Lindsay checked into rehab. “Babe, if I don’t have you in my life then I should just go die,” wrote Lindsay one night. “Your [sic] all I have to live for, babe. I want to marry you and have children with you. I need you to live!”

Wrote Samantha: “You still have me. I’m here for you. With you.” Although Samantha was on-hand to spin the records at Lindsay’s recent 21st birthday party in Malibu, she has reportedly been encouraging Lindsay to find a partner who can help her stay sober, as Samantha struggles with drug problems of her own. Lindsay gets upset each time Samantha tries to end things.

“I love you,” said Lindsay. “You love me. Why don’t we fuck and make a family … Babe, don’t leave me like this I FUCKING LOVE YOU!”

Lindsay sends Samantha a “virtual kiss” each night from rehab. “Go to bed babe,” she writes. “I love you – [signed] Lindsay Ronson.”

Samantha’s part of the reason Lindsay’s even in rehab. They met on the club circuit three years ago, and their relationship quickly became more than just a friendship, and the Memorial Day weekend drunken car crash Lindsay was involved in came as she was having a drunk and loaded argument with Samantha, supposedly because Lindsay refused to call Samantha her girlfriend.

Probably.

While her DJ pal Samantha Ronson, 29, looks like she’s there to help her pal through thick and thin, she’s really making a tidy profit on the side, shilling Lohan, 20, out to photographers eager to get her photo looking passed out and wasted. While an “out of it” Lohan thought she was just going home after a night out at Teddy’s in Hollywood on May 27, Ronson made a side trip to a gas station.
A source tells Celebrity Babylon, “The car was only down a quarter tank, and yet Samantha stopped for gas. She has a side deal with a photo agency and they paid her to make the pit stop!”

If that wasn’t shocking enough, sources say that it was Ronson who was holding the cocaine later found in Lindsay’s car. “There were three of them crammed into the Mercedes sports car and Samantha was the one that had the cocaine with her. Lindsay later questioned her about leaving it in the car for the cops to find and Samantha blew her off.”

Ronson, who makes anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000 a night deejaying at clubs and private parties, has accumulated a substantial side income taking her pal in front of paparazzi cameras for money.

Well the pics of Lindsay at the gas station came from X17, so I guess that’s who SamRo has the side deal with.