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This edition of Scoop Wars is a little incestuous, since our two combatants – Star magazine and the National Enquirer – are both owned by American Media Inc. By why let that stop the fun?

On Dec. 4, David Perel's Enquirer ran an exclusive (pp. 40-41) on Lindsay Lohan supposedly overdosing at the Chateau Marmont (her sometimes home), where her binging required the services of a doctor to flush the goods and bring her back to health.

And in this week's issue of Bonnie Fuller's Star, guess what story we have? The one where Lindsay Lohan overdosed at the Chateu Marmont, on pp.44-45. Not only is the plotline the same (with a few new details, such as Lindsay's Grey Goose demands at the World Music Awards), but there's plenty of evidence Star staffers just copy/pasted the Enquirer's story. Recycling quotes – and merely adding an exclamation mark to the new version – has a tendency to do that.

From the Enqurier:

From Star:

And the winner is? No brainer here, folks. Perel's team at the Enqurier had the story first, Star copy/pasted and updated, and AMI shows that its mounting debt actually might be unhealthy when it comes to funding two separate gossip operations.