Criminal case against actress Lindsay Lohan over a $2,500 necklace or not?

Prosecutors are not expected to make a decision today on whether to file a criminal case against actress Lindsay Lohan over a $2,500 necklace that was allegedly taken from a Venice jewelry store, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office said.

The celebrity website TMZ.com reported that the 24-year-old actress could be charged as early as today with a felony – possibly grand theft.

The website also reported talking to Lohan’s attorney, who replied in a statement: “We vehemently deny these allegations,” she said. “And, if charges are filed, we will fight them in court, not in the press.”

Defense lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley said the actress did nothing wrong.

Lohan is under investigation for allegedly walking out of a jewelry store on Abbot Kinney Boulevard with the designer bracelet on Jan. 22.

The celebrity website RadarOnline first reported that investigators have video of Lohan wearing the necklace.

Lohan was seen in a store video wearing the necklace, which later went missing, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times.

As detectives began looking into the case, a Lohan associate brought the necklace to the LAPD’s Pacific Station, according to The Times.

Los Angeles police turned the case over to prosecutors last Wednesday.

Lohan spent 14 days in jail last summer for violating probation on a 2007 drug case, in which a small amount of cocaine was found after she was involved in a crash on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills.

She also faces possible criminal charges for an alleged attack on a worker at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, where she underwent a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program from late September until Jan. 3.

She has been living in Venice since being released from rehab.

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