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Extra, Extra: Is Lindsay Lohan A Paid Escort?
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 16, 2013
Modified Jan 17, 2013
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- Kris JUMP Kross JUMP are JUMP reuniting JUMP JUMP.
- Is Lindsay Lohan a paid escort who only holds hands?
- Samuel L. Jackson puts his unique spin on "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
- Biggest bombshell of the day: star Notre Dame football player may have made up a dead girlfriend, although the university claims he was the victim of a terrible hoax.
- David Bowie might be down to play one show in NYC.
- The Amy Winehouse Foundation donates $25,000 to Brooklyn kids.
- A mildly controversial bike corral threatens to tear Crown Heights APART.
- Is this Megan Fox Esquire interview the worst profile ever, or the worstest profile ever? "[Her skin is] the color the moon possesses in the thin air of northern winters."
- Carmelo Anthony is kinda flattered that James Dolan was spying on him watching his back: "I got an owner that looks out for me."
- Vogue did a weird-but-well intentioned fashion spread with Hurricane Sandy first responders.
- And finally, an adorable three-legged dog was caught on camera stealing pet food from a store in New Zealand, and now he's a star:
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