Account describes woman's finding wallet belonging to actress Lindsay Lohan.
We don't yet know anything about the origins or authenticity of this piece. The putative scanned images of actress Lindsay Lohan's American Express card and driver's license may have been produced by someone who found her dropped wallet, or they may have been produced by someone who had access to her personal possessions by some other means. The text accompanying the images may be an accurate account written by the same person who found the wallet and created the scans, or it may be a completely fabricated account that someone else tacked on to the images. All we know for sure is that the New York Post reported Ms. Lohan did in fact misplace her purse, and someone found it in New York's Upper East Side on 4 December 2004:[Lohan] apparently misplaced her handbag, which was found Saturday by a guest at a party at an Upper East Side bar for alums of Providence College. The lucky finder was showing off Lohan's California driver's license, her black American Express card and other things she'd rather we didn't mention. 'It was like when you're in fifth grade and one girl in the corner shows off her boobs,' chuckled one titillated bystander. 'People were dying to see.'Frankly, the account provided with the scanned images sounds rather less like the words of a cautious wallet-finder and more like an attempt to sling some mud in Ms. Lohan's direction. Perhaps it's no coincidence that this item started infiltrating inboxes in early December 2004, right after a few dozen photos of the 18-year-old actress partying with friends in New York over Thanksgiving weekend also started circulated on the Internet, prompting her publicist to deny that Ms. Lohan smokes marijuana.(Only Ms. Lohan's street address was blacked out in the original version of the images displayed above. We have also blacked out portions of the American Express card number and the driver's license number, since we don't know for sure that those documents, if real, have since been invalidated and reissued with new numbers. We also don't know why the driver's license gives Ms. Lohan's middle name as Dee when nearly every other source lists her middle name as being Morgan.)
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