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Lindsay Lohan owned up to addictions to alcohol, drugs, and chaos in a nakedly confessional interview this week with Oprah Winfrey. The actress said she made too much money too young, and that her partying led to an addiction to alcohol, which she used as a “gateway to other things,” including cocaine. Winfrey accused her of being “addicted to chaos,” a charge Lohan did not dispute. “I’m my own worst enemy, and I know that,” she said. But Lohan claimed a court-ordered 90-day stint in rehab had helped her face her problems, and that she wanted more than anything to stay sober and revive her acting career. “I feel whole again,” she said. “I’m willing to do whatever it takes.”

Chris Brown was sentenced to another 1,000 hours of community service this week after being accused of not properly completing his previous sentence. A judge ordered the R&B singer to complete 125 days of labor before Aug. 25 next year, reinstating the probation Brown received in 2009 for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown was sentenced then to 1,440 hours of community service in Virginia, but the Los Angeles district attorney’s office accused him of “at best sloppy documentation and at worst fraudulent reporting” of his hours. In one instance, Brown was allegedly photographed at a charity event in Washington, D.C., on a day he claimed to have picked up trash in Richmond, Va. The district attorney agreed to drop the charges as part of the deal to extend probation.

Caroline Kennedy could be worth as much as $500 million, according to legal documents revealed this week. The only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy was required to report her financial information after President Obama nominated her to be U.S. ambassador to Japan, and revealed an estimated income of between $12 million and $30 million a year from family trusts and other assets. “She’s very rich, probably worth between $250 million and $500 million,” a legal expert toldthe New York Post after reviewing the documents.

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