X17 EXCLUSIVE - Michael Lohan's Reality Show Gets Green Light

Michael Lohan has left Long Island for good, relocating permanently to Los Angeles ... and it looks like his reality show idea has also found a new home.

Lohan confirms to X17online exclusively:

"Celebrity House LA is no longer just going to be a web series. It's going to be a syndicated reality show on TV and Dr. Drew's production company is behind it."

Originally, Celebrity House LA, formerly known as Celebrity House NY, was created as a web series featuring Lindsay Lohan's father and a wide cast of characters living together in a Southampton home. Lohan's ex Kate Major was also attached to star in the project. However, after his split with Major, the web series fell through.

Contrary to what Lohan says, Howard Lapides, co-owner of Dr. Drew Productions tells X17online, "We are certainly not backing this. What Michael is saying is not true. We have no deal with him."

Lohan is also facing paternity claims by Kristi Horn Kaufman ...a Montana woman who accuses Lindsay's dad of fathering her child. She adds that he has never paid child support.

Lohan tells X17online exclusively:

"The Maury Povich show has reached out to Kristi Horn Kaufman regarding doing a paternity test with Ashley and me, to which, for the THIRD TIME, Kristi has declined. So tell me, if Kristi is so sure and she even had the nerve to change Ashley's birth certificate to my last name, WHY won't she take the test? On October 5th, in Riverhead Court, my attorney Ed Burke Jr, will ask that her $300,000 judgement for support (which she got in my absence) , be set aside, while we reopen the case in Montana, and DEMAND a paternity test. What nerve this 3 times scorned con woman has, to have her daughter claim she is my daughter, without any proof and not wanting to find out the truth herself."

The truth, regarding both stories, will surface ... eventually.