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Last week it was reported that well-respected manager Johnny Wright offered to meet with Ali Lohan and possibly become her manager. This would have been a huge coup for Ali and possibly led to an actual career where she could be more than just the lead-in to a joke about Dina Lohan. Dina, however, being Dina, completely blew the entire thing for her. She still wanted to keep Ali’s entire manager fee for herself – which leads one to wonder, exactly how she thought Johnny Wright should be compensated.
The whole thing reeked of ego. And though Ali’s camp confirmed that they took a meeting with Wright, his side is now saying that they’ve never met with the Lohans and he’d never consider managing Ali’s career. The response is really terse and it’s clear he’s pissed as hell about something. I’m guessing Dina’s ego and the resulting wasting of his time.
FAMED music manager Johnny Wright is not only saying, “Thanks, but no thanks” to Dina Lohan - he slams her and her daughter Ali in a statement to Page Six. Lohan sources said Wright - who steered the Jonas Brothers and Justin Timberlake to the top - offered to manage Ali’s career. At the time, Dina told us via a rep she was interested and would take the meeting. But forget that.
A scathing statement from Wright’s company states: “Johnny Wright would like to set the record straight regarding his involvement with Ali Lohan.
“Johnny Wright has never met with Ali Lohan, has never been introduced to Ali Lohan, nor has he had a meeting with Ali or Dina Lohan regarding Ali’s music career. While he wishes Ali Lohan the best in all her endeavors, Mr. Wright has never had any intention of speaking with Ali Lohan regarding her career. Any story that has surfaced about such a meeting holds no merit and is completely false.
“Wright Entertainment Group has never had any interest or intention of adding Ali Lohan as an artist on the company’s roster, which currently includes Justin Timberlake, Jonas Brothers, Janet Jackson and Ciara amongst others.
[From the New York Post]
That last paragraph implies a lot. Both that Dina is a moron for passing on the opportunity to have Ali managed by someone with such a client roster… and it also is implying that Ali isn’t good enough to be a part of Wright management. Which she definitely isn’t at this point, but part of being a good manager is cultivating a career. Dina obviously has some experience because she managed Lindsay, but I would think it takes a special kind of talent and experience to successfully brand a younger sister in a way that is unique and separate from the older one.
Though they deny ever taking a meeting with the Lohans, it’s pretty clear that Wright is pissed and insulted – not that I blame him. But really, the joke is on Dina. She’s so dumb and full of herself that she has no clue that whatever attention she’s getting is because people are laughing at her stupidity, not admiring her business savvy like she’d hoped.
Here are Dina and Ali at the “Georgia Rule” premiere in May 2007. Images thanks to Fame.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Ali Lohan, Careers, Dina Lohan, Johnny Wright, Manager, Music
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14 Responses to “Johnny Wright says he never offered to manage Ali Lohan; seems offended”
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She sort of looks like Margot Kidder, around the time they found her naked and sitting in that bush.
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And the clown-shoe feet, Kayla. Don’t forget the feet.
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That dress makes her look pregnant.
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I feel sorry for Ali. She’s just a girl. Lindsay grew up and got away from her family, so now Dina is looking to create a new cash cow. She’s 14 for heaven’s sake, and her mom dresses her up like a 45 year old hooker trying to look like a 25 year old hooker. It’s sad.
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Isn’t she the same age as Dakota Fanning? Jesus.
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Sad day. I feel so bad for Ali. I’d probably buy her album out of pity.
Ali needs to become emancipated. And sadly move in with Lindsay.
Lindsay may be a wild child, but she knows the pitfalls and could probably help her little sister more than mommy and daddy ever could. (and I choke, shudder and gag to refer to their parents in sucha fashion. They are no more than two people who shouldn’t have had kids, but when they did decided to exploit them for every penny they could).
I’m surprised that the kids aren’t more screwed up than they are.
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Lindsay from the moment she started filming mean girls asked her mother to move with her in La so she could have her whole family with her,Dina refused.Lindsay stayed alone in hotels while Ali and her litle brother were missing Lindsay dreadfully.Lindsay is the older sister and she worked hard to provide for the whole family when their father was absent for years.I remember one scene from a MTV Diaries doc where 1o year old Ali phoned Lindsay who was filming Freaky Friday i think and she was crying on the phone and calling her to come back and you can see Lindsay starting crying heavily too.
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::sighs:: This child needs to stop wearing so much makeup,im sure she’s naturally beautiful–there is no need for it=[
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Not sure why he’d be offended now..he’s managed and produced plenty of other wack teenage half talented acts over the years.
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She’s 14?!!!! Omg, she looks waaaaaaaay older than that. Classic case of a mother trying to live her dreams off her daughters’ lives. I really feel sorry for this girl.
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In that 1st picture, I see a lot of pain, sadness and guarded bewilderment in Ali’s eyes. And is that supposed to be a smile?
Very sad indeed.
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i want to wash ali’s face.
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Why would Johnny Wright be interested in Ali Lohan? Being honest and not meaning this offensively she has very little talent compared to girls of similar age on youtube like Emily Harder, Savannah Outen or Celeste. I think Johnny Wright would be looking on there for talent before he looked at Ali. It all sounds like Dina has been studying at Papa Joe Simpsons publicity school….
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Strange looking girl….short little body & old looking face.She could make it in the circus…
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