TMZ: 2.3 Million Watched Lindsay Lohan Live Court Stream

Users spend average of 16.3 minutes on site

TMZ head Harvey Levin said on Wednesday that the site's livestream of Lindsay Lohan's teary probation hearing — where Los Angeles Superior Court judge Marsha Revel sentenced the actress to 90 days in jail followed by 90 days in an inpatient rehab program — drew 2.3 million viewers on Tuesday, making it the most-watched stream in TMZ history.

Levin said that broke the site's previous mark of 845,000 viewers for Lohan's May 24 hearing. Before that, the most views registered for a live event were on June 25, 2009 — the day Michael Jackson died.

He told Broadcasting & Cable an average user spent 16.3 minutes on the site, compared to its usual five-to-seven minute average.

All of which will make Lohan's scheduled surrender on July 21 (or before, though less likely) a big, helicopter-saturated live-media event.

Meanwhile, according to PopEater, Lohan is angling to be paid more than $1 million for her first post-penitentiary interview. Paris Hilton did the same thing when she got sprung before giving it to Larry King.

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