Lindsay Lohan created an internet furor last week when New York magazine revealed on its website samples from a photo shoot recreating Marilyn Monroe’s famous Last Sitting. One week later, the project seems to have paid off, for the actress and the magazine.

Lindsay Lohan worked with photographer Bert Stern to recreate Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe’s last photo shoot before her tragic death in 1962. It was Stern that photographed the “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” actress in the 1960s and it was he that praised Lindsay for the reenactment, telling the Associated Press “she was a natural, not at all squeamish.”

The photographs are nude portraits, and while there were many voices calling the pics tacky and in bad taste, million of people visited New York magazine’s website to have a glimpse.

Quoting New York magazine spokeswoman Lauren Starke, ABC News reports that more than 40 million page views were recorded by the mag’s site during the first two days of the Lohan segment, and more than 34 million were generated precisely by her portfolio. The site averages around a million page views a day.

ABC does some computing of its own and concludes that New York’s online slideshow probably generated as much revenue per day as it would from four $64,500 full-page color ads in its print edition.

While Lindsay’s mom and manager Dina Lohan promptly added her own comments to the situation, confessing to People magazine last week that she looks at her daughter’s nude photos “as art and as Lindsay doing a character,” not “like it’s Playboy,” she may be even more pleased now.

E! Online reported last week that the 21-year-old actress is going back to work: she has signed to star alongside Jack Black in “Ye Olde Times,” a Patriot Pictures comedy. An unnamed source told E! News that the film follows “two rival Renaissance Faire troupes as they make their way through the competitive circuit.”

Lindsay is also said to be working on her third studio album. Mama Lohan told People last week: “I've heard a couple of tracks. They were amazing!”

And yes, there is room for one more event in this single one week from Lindsay’s life: the Golden Raspberry Awards, where she like, totally ruled.

Her thriller movie “I Know Who Killed Me” received an unprecedented eight Razzies Saturday, including for worst picture, worst rip-off, worst excuse for a horror movie, worst director and worst screenplay. Lindsay won in the worst actress, worst supporting actress and worst screen couple categories.

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