A new (but not last), Lindsay's Lesbian denial and who's Samantha?5

Here's this picture remind us of when LiLo collapsed in the front seat of a car last May, but both times were after a night of clubbing with BFF Samantha Ronson!

Lindsay's Lesbian Denial

"I think it's pretty obvious who I'm seeing." So says Lindsay Lohan as she takes the coy route in the December issue of Harper's Bazaar. The career overhaul-needing starlet, 22, studiously avoids mentioning the name of suctioned-on inamorata Samantha Ronson, reasoning, "I feel like it jinxes it. It's hard. The second I start talking about whomever I'm seeing, a month or two later it's failed." But Lohan, who casually announced in September that she and Sam have been together for "a very long time," does acknowledge that her DJ squeeze is "a wonderful person and I love her very much." Lindsay also bobs and weaves around the particulars of her sexuality, including whether this is her first same-sex relationship ("I don't know. Maybe," she giggles) and if she believes she's bisexual ("Maybe. Yeah," she opines). But the actress apparently doesn't want to choose sides, responding "no" when asked the lesbian question. "I don't want to classify myself," she maintains. "First of all, you never know what's going to happen -- tomorrow, in a month, a year from now, five years from now." And despite her parents' deeply dysfunctional marriage, LiLo believes she'll "eventually" get hitched, but when asked if a man or a woman will be standing at the altar, she shrugs, "I don't know." She then offers this surprisingly insightful conclusion: "I appreciate people, and it doesn't matter who they are, and I feel blessed to be able to feel comfortable enough with myself that I can say that."

Harper's Bazaar December issue
It's a Saturday night in early October and Lindsay Lohan is sitting at the Chateau Marmont drinking a Shirley Temple. She is such a regular at the hotel that no one gives a second look when she comes racing in with a friend. Lindsay is wearing a black dress over a pair of her now-signature leggings, Yves Saint Laurent boots, several bracelets, two diamond rings on her right hand, and an open black Michael Jackson-like glove on her left. She looks a little more glamorous than usual — "The hostess said, 'It's so nice to see you dressed up,'" she says — and the faintly ironic beverage reveals that she's no longer living la vida Lohan. The message is clear: Lindsay has actually started growing up.LINDSAY LOHAN

After close to five months in rehab in 2007, Lindsay, 22, is embracing maturity and recognizing she must take responsibility for her actions. "I was going to clubs all the time, and it was not okay. I was so alone. It made me not focus on what I was doing," she says now. Of her life pre-Cirque Lodge and Promises, she observes, "I was living here [at the Chateau] for almost two years. Who blows that much money on a hotel?" She waves her arm around and says, "I could have bought a house!"
But Lindsay admits candidly, "I did it to myself, and I have to deal with the consequences. I'm thankful for what I can take out of it. Now I feel clear. That's my past, and I'm a different person now. I have goals and I'm working to achieve them. I'm not hanging out with people who are out every night getting fucked up."And," she adds sheepishly with a smile, "I think that I'm happy."Her friend Jaime Zeluck, who works in the music business and has been silently checking her PDA, chimes in, "You're the best I've seen you in a while."Truth be told, the Lindsay Lohan we know and love hasn't quite disappeared. She arrives more than an hour late. The reason for her tardiness: an oddly amusing story involving searching for Lindsay's Escalade and "climbing a hill in YSLs." (Lindsay doesn't have a driver's license at the moment.) Still, compared with past hijinks, this is Lohan lite. "I think at this point," she offers, "[the media] is like, 'Let her do what she's going to do. We've seen her do enough.'" Lindsay's response may explain the nonchalant attitude the press has taken toward her latest reported romance, an apparent stabilizing force. She refuses to name DJ Samantha Ronson, known for her boyish attire, skinny jeans, and porkpie hat, as the object of her affection, though she has alluded to their relationship on her MySpace blog."I feel like it jinxes it," Lindsay says cryptically. "It's hard. The second I start talking about whomever I'm seeing, a month or two later it's failed." The two have been inseparable for months. They have been photographed together on countless occasions: at Ronson's sister's fashion show in New York; cavorting in bikinis on the beach in Los Cabos, Mexico; at Lindsay's prom-themed 22nd-birthday party this past summer."I think it's pretty obvious who I'm seeing," Lindsay admits after much, much prodding. "I think it's no shock to anyone that it's been going on for quite some time. ... She's a wonderful person and I love her very much." Has she previously been with a girl? She laughs and says, "I don't know. Maybe." Has she ever been embarrassed about being attracted to a woman? "No." Would she classify herself as bisexual? "Maybe. Yeah." Lesbian? "No." She goes on, "I don't want to classify myself. First of all, you never know what's going to happen — tomorrow, in a month, a year from now, five years from now. I appreciate people, and it doesn't matter who they are, and I feel blessed to be able to feel comfortable enough with myself that I can say that." She sees herself getting married "eventually," but whether to a man or a woman, "I don't know." Her family — save for her father, Michael, who has publicly railed against Ronson — has been especially supportive. "It's never really come up as an issue," says Lindsay. "We're close; we've been through a lot. They're supportive of me whether I'm with a guy or a girl. They're just supportive of me as a person." When her 14-year-old sister, Ali, visited her on the set of Ugly Betty, on which Lindsay had a guest role this fall, she asked if her big sister was dating Ronson. Lindsay recalls, "Ali's known Samantha for a really long time. And she's like, 'Whatever it is, I support you. I probably won't ever do what it is you're doing, but I'm happy for you.' Ali's very mature. I've told her that it's okay to like a boy or a girl if you're comfortable with it and it's something you believe you want to do. And I told her not to be afraid of who she wants to be." As for her father's behavior, "I would love to say it's surprising, but it's not. It doesn't bother me as much as embarrass and hurt me. And put a knife in my back," she says, on the verge of tears. "And it's hard because I was flipping through channels and someone on E! called him a loser. And that's my fucking father!" The two are not speaking at the moment, though Lindsay insists, "He's not a bad guy. He's just making bad choices."Lindsay, on the other hand, is making the best choices she can. Rather than hitting clubs like Crown Bar or Villa, she's been staying home more regularly, plopped in front of the television set. "I'm the biggest loser Gossip Girl fan," she says. "I love Chuck Bass. I want to be his friend."

Lately, she has become more actively engaged with the world through her blog, writing intelligently about such topics as Sarah Palin, a woman's right to abortion, gay rights, and her support of Barack Obama. Building a presence online has helped her let people know "there's a person in here," Lindsay says, tapping her head. "And I have feelings too, whether it's about politics, the person I'm seeing, the person I'm not seeing. That's my way of connecting. I don't want people to think that I'm just an empty fucking whatever."
Lindsay is reclaiming her music and acting careers as well as, like most personalities these days, launching a fashion brand. Her leggings line, named 6126 after Marilyn Monroe's birth date, hit stores this past summer. "There's not much you can do with leggings, but I'm doing everything I can," she says. As for her music, she's wondering whether she should go the sophisticated route of, say, an Adele or dance music like Lady Gaga. (The examples are hers.) She would love for Ronson's hotshot producer brother, Mark, to work with her, but "he seems really busy," she says diplomatically. Lindsay also recently completed her first film in more than a year, Labor Pains, a comedy in which she stars as a secretary who fakes a pregnancy to hold on to her job. According to producer Rick Schwartz (The Aviator and The Others), "People called me and said, 'How do you go from working with Kidman and Scorsese to Lindsay Lohan?' and I said, 'Watch me.'" He continues, "She delivered on every single thing that she promised me. When the director yells, 'Action,' you remember why she's a movie star. I want to find a role for her — like Nicole Kidman's in The Hours — that crystallizes her career. I feel like I'm trying to spread the gospel of Lindsay."The film made Lindsay think about having her own kids, though that's probably something far in the future. "I don't know if I could really set a time because then it's like pressure to do it and failure if I don't," she explains. "It shouldn't be about that. It should be about knowing that you're ready." Besides, she adds, "I still need to be in charge of taking care of myself and getting my shit in line and buying a house."And working on convincing Hollywood she's gainfully employable again. Lindsay realizes it's not an easy road, "but I know people wouldn't have gone to see my movies if I didn't make them laugh or make them cry. I think it's a matter of finding the right thing. I'm sure my first thing back might not be that, but eventually it will come."That's what this business is," she continues, sounding like a grande dame of the movie industry — and maybe, with 10 years under her belt since she starred in the remake of The Parent Trap, that's what she is. "It builds you up to take you down and then sees how far you can come back. "I don't really worry, though. I'm a fighter," Lindsay says, flipping back her long hair. "I'm up for a challenge, and I won't settle."

( By Marshall Heyman )

The Royal Ronsons
Rock aristocrats Samantha, Mark, and Charlotte talk talent, tabloids, and the lovable Lindsay Lohan(pic : Mark,Charlotte,samantha ronson, Ann Dexter-Jones,the Royal Tenenbaums)Getting the Ronson siblings together is no easy task. After all, they have made being in demand an art form. Mark, 32, the hotshot music producer responsible for Amy Winehouse's breakout album and whose own release, Version, went double platinum in the U.K., splits his time between London and New York when he's not performing with the likes of Duran Duran or Jay-Z. Charlotte, 31, the downtown fashion designer who counts Kate Moss among her following, is busy working on her eponymous label and cohosting charity events. Her twin, Samantha, is an international DJ whose turntable skills are requested everywhere from Bel Air to Mumbai (though recently her most famous asset is Lindsay Lohan, whom she is rumored to be dating). "Not even on the high holiest of Jewish holidays do we all get together," says Mark wryly. "But we get together individually whenever we can." MARK, SAMANTHA, AND CHARLOTTE RONSONEven before tabloid targets Winehouse and Lohan entered the picture, the Ronson family was a source of intrigue. Mother Ann Dexter-Jones is a social darling who married Laurence Ronson, a British real estate heir and band manager, and then eventually remarried to Mick Jones of Foreigner. The couple (who recently divorced) moved the family to New York when the children were in grade school and had two more of their own: Annabelle, 21, is a Bard student and aspiring actress who serves as Charlotte's top model, and Alexander, 23, is also a musician and DJ. "It would appear that we had a bohemian, rock 'n' roll upbringing," says Charlotte. "And in many ways it was, but our mother was superstrict, and we also had the very English, proper nanny." When asked about this, Dexter-Jones deadpans, "I used to be nicknamed Mummy Dearest." That said, Dexter-Jones's get-togethers are legendary. Yes, the kids would wake up to the elder Ronson drinking Johnny Walker and playing chess with Daryl Hall at 8:00 a.m., when they were leaving for school. And sure, Al Pacino has come over for Christmas lunch. ("It was epic," says Samantha. "I had just watched Scarface, and I don't think I spoke.") Speculation about who was a houseguest has taken on mythic proportions. "People say that David Bowie and Andy Warhol would pop over for tea," says Mark. "If they did, I wish I had known." The parallel between the Ronsons and the quirky prodigies, Chas, Margot, and Richie Tenenbaum, of the 2001 Wes Anderson-directed dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums isn't just a clever concept. All are products of an unusual upbringing and artistic environment"Samantha was and still is my renaissance child," says her mother. "She always loved music and books and had a tremendous curiosity and intensity, whatever subject caught her imagination." Though Samantha is recognized as a celebrity DJ, she originally broke onto the scene as a folk singer and songwriter. (Coincidentally, one of her tunes was featured in Lohan's 2004 smash movie, Mean Girls.) Currently, she is remixing songs for Good Charlotte's greatest-hits album and hopes to get her band up and running again. Lately, though, she has been in the spotlight for other reasons. When she discovered a small piece about herself and Lohan in Rolling Stone, she balked. "It's like, 'Oh, not you guys, too!'" says the typically press-shy Ronson. "I stay away from the tabloids. I don't feel that I should personally have to defend myself to a magazine that I'm not a drug addict. I don't do drugs. I don't sell pictures of my friends."When asked about Lohan, Samantha is polite but firm. "I'm not going to talk about Lindsay because she's my friend, you know? She's great. She's also 22 years old. I think people forget that. With the Internet the way it is, one second we're enemies, one second we're best friends, one second we're lovers, and then we're broken up." By press time, reports had trickled out on the Web that Samantha had changed her personal status on Facebook to "in a relationship," while photos of her and Lohan holding hands had circulated. She is accustomed to the speculation. "Even the airport-security guy in Canada asked me, 'So, is it true?'" laughs Samantha. "It's like, 'Oh, yeah, I'm telling you.'" Charlotte adds, "The funniest thing was, I bought a bunch of those tabloid magazines and didn't even notice that Samantha was on the cover of one." Lohan, however, is unsurprisingly coy when she replies by e-mail: "I love the Ronsons. They're close to my heart and I respect all the work they do. Samantha and my relationship is a private matter."The siblings' love of music is as mutual as their disdain for gossipy scrutiny. "At nine months old, Mark would crawl over to sit by the speakers while his father played records," says Dexter-Jones. "It's a miracle that they can both still hear." At seven, he was quizzing Keith Richards about the guitarist's choice of chords and compositions. Another famous Keith (Moon from the Who) gave him a toddler drum lesson. Bob Dylan is also an influence; Mark admits he mimics the singer's 1960s-era style, which has girls swooning at home in the U.K., but affixed to his arm these days is British It-girl model Daisy Lowe, 13 years his junior. This past winter, Mark won three Grammy Awards, in part for his production of Winehouse's album Back to Black. The two later fell out when Winehouse publicly imploded during work on their collaboration for the new Bond film. The singer's rep maintained it was creative differences, while Mark hints otherwise. "At the time, it was hard to get some work done," he says diplomatically. "But she's been in the clinic. I've been to visit a few times, and she just looks amazing." The fashion industry is similarly tumultuous, yet Charlotte has maintained her status as a successful designer since she began in 2000. "I was always interested in fashion," she says, "but I went to art school originally. I think if I really thought about it as a career, then I would have been scared off!" She started out by making custom T-shirts that were snapped up by Moss and Gwen Stefani, then formed C. Ronson, a contemporary line. Two years ago, she established the more mature and hipster-approved Charlotte Ronson label, which pulled in an impressive $22 million in worldwide sales in 2007. Recently, she partnered with pals Lily Allen and Nicole Richie to create limited-edition handbags that have sold like hotcakes at her flagship boutique in Tokyo. Given the Ronsons' genetic fabulousness, it's safe to say that each of the trio is starting his or her own chapter of lore. One thing is obvious: They have one another's backs. Charlotte illustrates the point perfectly and sartorially: "When Samantha is walking around and all of the paparazzi are shooting her, I should have her wear a T-shirt that says, WEAR CHARLOTTE RONSON on the front. And on the back, it could say, AND LEAVE ME ALONE."

( via Bazaar By Sarah Cristobal )