Actor Zac Efron was punched in the face last week during a brawl in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles, leading friends to worry why the actor—who has had drug problems in the past—was there. Efron told the cops he was on a late-night sushi run in a sketchy neighborhood under the Harbor Freeway when his car ran out of gas. When a man Efron described as his bodyguard became involved in an altercation with a couple of “transients,” Efron says he swung a vodka bottle at the men to fend off the attack, and was punched. “It was the hardest I’ve ever been hit in my life,” Efron told cops. He has reportedly received treatment for a cocaine addiction in the past, and TMZ.com reported that his friends fear that he may have fallen off the wagon. “[Zac] goes out rarely,” said one friend. “The idea of him driving for miles to go to some sushi restaurant in downtown L.A. after midnight is preposterous.”
James Franco wants everybody to know he did not sleep with Lindsay Lohan. Franco was named on a list of famous conquests allegedly written and left by the party-loving actress in the bar of the Beverly Hills Hotel, and later obtained by In Touch. The list also includes Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, and Heath Ledger; several other high-profile names, some of them married men, were redacted for legal reasons. Franco seemed very eager to deny the rumors in an interview with Los Angeles magazine. “Lindsay herself has told lies about me with her people-she’s-slept-with list,” he insisted.
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