About six months ago we all enjoyed reading the lurid, tell-all account of Life With Lindsay that former bodyguard Lee Weaver shopped around for a truckload of cash. Weaver claimed La Lohan indulged in massive drug use, violent, psychotic behavior, promiscuous lesbian sex, and everything else he could think of short of tearing those “Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law” tags off the underside of hotel mattresses. Most of it was probably true, which didn’t make Weaver’s “sing for the bling” sellout any less unprofessional.
Now another of Lindsay’s bodyguards is getting into the act. Andrae Renard is suing American Media Inc., Star Magazine’s parent company, because the tabloid ran his picture alongside their original story “Lindsay’s Bodyguard Bares All! Her Sick, Secret World” and misidentified him as Weaver, the actual source of the story. Renard claims the botched photo has damaged his reputation as a celebrity bodyguard and deprived him of his primary income. Star did run a retraction something like a month later, but said the pic was of someone called Andrae Newman. A person claiming to be the real Andrae Newman is also suing Star.
This story is full of winners. Weaver gets a huge undisclosed sum for singing like a scuzzbucket, Star sells a lot of copies and is going to pay dearly for the privilege, and Renard and the alleged Andrae Newman get their reputations cleared. Lindsay’s three-year lost weekend may have left her broke and unemployable, but it’s making a lot of other people rich.




















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