Lindsay Lohan Poses Nude For New York Magazine

And the downward spiral continues . . .

In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose.

Forty-six years later, Stern has revisited his classic shots with Lindsay Lohan, another actress whose prodigious fame is not quite commensurate with her professional achievements.

During a break in the daylong shoot, Lohan sat cross-legged on a bed in the four-room suite and spoke to me, in that familiar throaty voice with its staccato rhythms, about her abiding obsession with Monroe. Her interest took root a decade ago with multiple viewings of Niagara during the London filming of The Parent Trap. She has even purchased an apartment where Marilyn once lived. “If you saw my house … I have a lot of Marilyn stuff,” she told me, including a huge painting of Monroe. (H/T - New York Magazine)

I guess it figures that someone with such self-destructive tendencies as Lohan would be obsessed with Marilyn Monroe. So far, Lindsay's been arrested, involved in numerous auto accidents, been hospitalized many times, attended rehab, and now posed naked. And the chick is only 21!

I think in honor of Count's Britney Spears Suicide Predictions, I'll start a Lindsay Lohan Death Pool. Place yer bets!