Lindsay Lohan’s probation comes to an end after 8 years of scandal for actress

For the first time in nearly eight years, Lindsay Lohan is not on probation.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Young on Thursday ended Lohan’s probation in a reckless driving case, closing the last of a series of Los Angeles criminal cases that have dogged the actress for years.

Young said he reviewed community service logs and determined Lohan had completed her sentence. He praised Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Holley, telling her she had done an excellent job getting the actress to complete the hours in recent weeks.

Unlike many previous hearings in the actress’s criminal cases, Lohan was not present for the hearing.

Resolving the reckless driving case was not without its hiccups – Lohan missed a deadline last year to complete her community service and a prosecutor criticised her efforts, noting that she was given credit for meeting fans of a London stage play and other questionable activities. A judge earlier this year ordered Lohan to redo 125 hours of service.

Over the years, she was briefly jailed five times and sentenced to rehab for a variety of violations ranging from failing to perform her community service to skipping counselling sessions.

Since 2007, Lohan was convicted in three cases – a drunken driving and drug case, a theft case filed over a stolen necklace and a reckless driving case filed after the actress crashed her Porsche into a dump truck on Pacific Coast Highway while on her way to a movie shoot.