Lindsay Lohan said the alcohol- and drug-fueled behavior that landed her in rehab three times last year was the result of “putting myself in the wrong situations,” People.com reports. The 21-year-old actress - who’s six months out of her last rehab treatment at Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah - insisted she’s since “changed things” in her life, including cutting off the hangers-on and other people she viewed as negative influences and focusing on her family. “My family has always been important to me, and they’ve always supported me,” Lohan - who begins filming the Jack Black comedy “Ye Olde Times” this spring - said. “I’m blessed to have a really wonderful family.”

A Los Angeles hospital will fire some employees and discipline others for looking at the confidential medical records of pop star Britney Spears.

Spears was treated in the hospital’s psychiatric ward.

UCLA Medical Center confirmed the action but could not say how many employees were affected.

The hospital did not say when the snooping took place or which of Spears’ records were looked at.

The Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on its website that the breaches stemmed from incidents before Spears’ most recent treatment, but did not elaborate.

The newspaper said more than 13 employees, none of whom are doctors, would be fired.

Twelve others, including several doctors, will be disciplined for looking at her computerised records, it reported.

Britney Spears was caught on Saturday going to ROMANOV Russian Restaurant & Lounge in Studio City, and minutes later MEL GIBSON walks into the same restaurant. Also when Britney left the restaurant Mel Gibson walked out a few minutes later. A source from the restaurant says that they were dining together. Are Britney and Mel doing a movie together?

Angelina Jolie has defeated Jessica Simpson in the first round of HDTV ‘Hottie Hysteria’ — TVPredictions.com’s elimination tournament to determine who’s the hottest female in High-Definition TV.

TVPredictions.com is posting a daily reader poll pitting one celebrity babe against another. Readers are being asked to vote on which female looks best in high-def. Then, based on their votes, each winner will move to the next round until only one woman is left standing.

In the Jolie-Simpson contest, Angelina, the star of the Lara Croft films, captured 56 percent of the vote to Jessica’s 44 percent. (2,173 readers voted in the poll.)

Jolie, the top seed in the Plasma division of Hottie Hysteria, will now face the winner of the Vanessa Williams-Jennifer Love Hewitt contest in the Plasma Division finals.

To vote in today’s match-up, click Hottie Hysteria.

The $1,000-an-hour prostitute reportedly hired by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer may soon make much more than that, turning her 15 minutes of infamy into a tidy sum of money.

Since 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupre was identified by The New York Times late on Wednesday as the governor’s paramour, the prostitute and aspiring singer’s songs have become the most popular downloads on a music-sharing Web site and at least one magazine is prepared to pay her for a nude photo spread.

Proving the adage there’s no such thing as bad publicity, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt told the Access Hollywood television program on Friday that he plans to offer Dupre $1 million to pose nude in his magazine.

Earlier this week, the woman told the Times she was worried about paying her rent this month after the escort service she worked for was shut down by federal officials.

The newspaper reported Spitzer was heard on a federal wiretap last month arranging a tryst with a prostitute called “Kristen,” whom the paper identified as Dupre.

Spitzer resigned on Wednesday and apologized for his “private failings,” but did not refer specifically to the report.

According to Dupre’s MySpace page (www.myspace.com/ninavenetta), she left home at 17 and moved to New York, where she is trying to pursue a music career.

Her R&B- and pop-tinged songs “What We Want” and “Move Ya Body” are ranked as the two best-selling songs on the AimeStreet.com music sharing Web site.

A spokesman for Aime Street, which uses a demand-price model where users pay more for popular songs, would not confirm how many times Dupre’s songs had been downloaded. But he said “Move ya Body,” which was uploaded to the site around 2 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Thursday, rose to the highest download price (98 cents) faster than any other song in the site’s history.

Dupre’s page on the site has been viewed more than 300,000 times and artists get a 70 percent cut of sales. If 1 million copies were sold, as some media outlets have estimated, then she’s already made more than $680,000 from her notoriety.

New York radio stations, including the top-rated Z100, have been playing her music on the airwaves. Her profile on the social networking Web site MySpace has had over 7 million page views.

Penthouse Magazine Group president and publisher Diane Silberstein has said the men’s magazine would consider offering Dupre a nude cover shot.

On Friday, The New York Post ran five pages of revealing pictures of Dupre from a 2007 photo shoot purportedly to promote her music career.