14 DAY TRIAL // Lindsay Lohan teamed up with Hugh Hefner for a pictorial that was meant to be beneficial to both, reviving her career and boosting sales for his Playboy. Now, the entire spread is available online, weeks before it was supposed to come out on newsstands.
As we also informed you a couple of days ago, the leak started on Twitter, where a snapshot of the cover first emerged.
Today, fans of both the actress and the men's magazine can see the entire photospread online, as high-quality pics have emerged on various celebrity blogs.
While we will not post them here (for a variety of reasons), we can confirm that, indeed, the pictorial is a tribute to the one Marilyn Monroe did for the first issue of the magazine.
At the same time, we can confirm that it's tastefully done as promised, and that Lindsay really pulls it off: she looks very good in all the shots.
Since Hefner invested a lot of money in the Lohan issue, paying her alone a reported $1 million (€719,476), he's furious that the photos have leaked.
In fact, he's so upset about the whole thing he's decided to release the issue in question earlier, TMZ reports.
“Hugh Hefner has been screwed by the Internet and now the Playboy honcho has announced he's releasing the Lindsay Lohan issue early, after the entire spread was leaked on the web,” the e-zine says.
This isn't just a rumor either: The Hef himself has confirmed it on Twitter.
“Because of the interest & the Internet leak, we're releasing the Lindsay Lohan issue early,” the media mogul said on his official page.
However, he didn't mention the new release date, but it's believed to be soon, in one final bid to minimize damage.
“Playboy invested a TON of money into the Lohan edition – and had printed thousands of extra copies in anticipation of unprecedented demand,” TMZ says, in addition to paying her a small fortune to do the pictorial in the first place.