Lindsay Lohan to pose for Playboy cover

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan may have found a way to pay some of her mounting legal bills with a planned agreement to pose nude for Playboy magazine, a source who knew of Lohan's plans said on Tuesday.

Celebrity news outlets TMZ.com and Access Hollywood reported that Lohan, who has faced numerous legal charges in recent years including theft, will appear in the men's magazine and that a photo shoot had in fact already taken place.

Lohan's mother, Dina Lohan, told the website X17online.com "the photo shoot went well," at a Beverly Hills mansion.

A Playboy spokeswoman declined to comment, and a spokesman for Lohan said he would "neither confirm or deny" the reports about the "Mean Girls" star who rose to fame in Disney movies.

Still, details leaked out on Tuesday. TMZ reported Playboy initially offered Lohan $750,000, but the actress wanted US$1 million (S$1.25 million) Playboy countered with a deal that approached that figure, TMZ said, citing unnamed sources.

The Playboy spread, if it occurs, would not be Lohan's first nude magazine photos. She appeared partially naked in a New York magazine in 2008 for a piece referencing Marilyn Monroe's famous 1962 shoot with photographer Bert Stern.

Monroe also famously appeared as a Playboy centerfold.

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