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Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy pictorial leaks online (UPDATE)

Lindsay Lohan (Toby Canham – Getty Images) Update: Hugh Hefner is making the best of Lohan’s leak, writing on Twitter that it’s “causing a sensation.”

“because of the interest & the Internet leak, we’re releasing the Lindsay Lohan issue early,” the magazine mogul tweeted. No official word yet on what “early” means.

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Lindsay Lohan’s entire Playboy pictorial has leaked online, a week before it was set to hit newsstands and get a TV reveal on “the Ellen DeGeneres show.”

The ten photo spread, clearly inspired by the 1949 shoot of Marilyn Monroe that appeared in the men’s magazine’s inaugural issue, hit the Web this afternoon. some of the pictures are stamped with the watermark for WorldMags.net, which had scanned the issue and made it available for download. This file has since been taken offline. the issue’s cover leaked online Thursday.

The actress, who has suffered from a number of legal troubles in recent years, previously posed nude for another Monroe-inspired spread in new York Magazine

Request for comment from Playboy has not been returned. Sources told TMZ that magazine executives fear the leak could damage sales. Lohan was reportedly paid close to $1 million for the shoot.

The issue hits newsstands December 15.

This post has been updated.

Lindsay Lohan Strips off for Playboy – KOMPAS.com

KOMPAS.com - Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has posed nude for Playboy in a deal worth nearly $US1 million ($957,350), the TMZ celebrity news website reported on Tuesday.

The actress, who has faced a string of legal problems and is on probation, had wanted $US1 million and baulked at an initial offer of $US750,000, TMZ reported.

But Playboy boss Hugh Hefner recently came back to Lohan with an offer below her asking price – but close enough for her to agree to the deal, it said, adding that shooting for the Playboy spread began at the weekend.

A spokeswoman for the actress declined to comment, telling AFP: "I am neither confirming nor denying the reports."Playboy also had no comment on the report.

The star of mean Girls was turned away from the LA county morgue last week, after turning up late for community service ordered as part of probation terms, officials said.

Lohan appeared handcuffed in court last Wednesday, but was later released after paying $US100,000 bail, and a probation violation hearing was set for November 2.

Lohan – once the promising child star of hit Disney movies The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday – has a reputation for hard partying and has faced a series of legal tangles over the years.

  Sumber :AFP

Ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta to face criminal charges – source

NEW YORK | Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:03am IST

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Goldman Sachs director, Rajat Gupta, who also was once the global head of elite consultancy McKinsey & Co, will surrender to the FBI on Wednesday to face criminal insider trading-related charges, a person familiar with the investigation said.

Rajat Gupta, one of the most prominent business executives to be caught up in the government’s wide-ranging insider-trading probe, had been named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the criminal case against hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam earlier this year.

The person familiar with the investigation, who declined to be identified because the charges have not yet been made public, said Gupta had agreed to surrender to authorities.

Gupta’s attorney, Gary Naftalis, would not comment late Tuesday on possible criminal charges, but he issued a statement echoing his previous comments that Gupta committed no wrongdoing.

“Any allegation that Rajat Gupta engaged in any unlawful conduct is totally baseless. The facts demonstrate that mr. Gupta is an innocent man and that he has always acted with honesty and integrity. He did not trade in any securities, did not tip mr Rajaratnam so he could trade, and did not share in any profits as part of any quid pro quo.”

Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, was convicted in May by a New York federal jury after a two-month trial.

On Oct. 13, a judge sentenced him to 11 years in prison, the longest recorded for insider trading. Rajaratnam is under house arrest and was ordered to report to prison on Nov. 28.

Gupta, 62, well-known in the business world after 34 years at McKinsey, had won a seat in 2006 on the board of Goldman. He retired from McKinsey in 2007.

Goldman Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein was called to the witness stand by the government to testify at Rajaratnam’s trial in Manhattan federal court.

Blankfein told the jury that Gupta violated confidentiality at Wall Street’s most powerful bank by leaking boardroom secrets.

Ellen Davis, a spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, whose office prosecuted Rajaratnam, declined to comment on Gupta’s surrendering to authorities or any possible charges.

in August, Gupta and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to drop litigation against each other stemming from the sprawling Galleon probe, which has ensnared money managers, traders and corporate executives.

The SEC had said Gupta passed illegal tips to Rajaratnam about Goldman, including a possible multibillion dollar investment from Warren Buffett, as well as tips about Procter & Gamble Co, where Gupta was also a director.

while the SEC said in August it would dismiss its administrative proceeding against Gupta, the agency said it could still bring a case against him in a federal district court.

The investigation of Sri Lankan-born Rajaratnam was notable for the use of FBI phone taps. The probe ensnared several of the Galleon Group founder’s South Asian friends and associates. Gupta was born in India.

The Rajaratnam trial punctured McKinsey’s prized reputation for closely guarding client confidentiality — former McKinsey executive Anil Kumar pleaded guilty to criminal charges and testified against Rajaratnam.

At the trial, prosecutors played recordings in which Rajaratnam was heard discussing information he received from Gupta about Goldman Sachs.

in one recording dated Oct. 24, 2008, Rajaratnam was heard calling David Lau, chief of Galleon’s Singapore branch, and discussing a tip he got from a board member that Goldman was on its way to a surprise fourth-quarter loss, its first as a public company.

The call comes one day after the investment bank held a board meeting discussing the loss, prosecutors said.

“I just heard from somebody who’s on the board of Goldman Sachs, they are gonna lose $2 per share,” Rajaratnam was heard saying. “So what he (the board member) was telling me was that, uh, Goldman, the quarter’s pretty bad.”

(Additional reporting by Grant McCool; editing by Martha Graybow, Carol Bishopric, Gary Hill and Vinu Pilakkott)