Breast cancer survivor Christina Applegate is launching a new charity called Right Action for Women, which will work to help low income, high risk women get MRIs that detect early forms of breast cancer. Insurance companies don’t currently cover the cost of such MRIs.

The charity, which is set to launch in September, will also do genetic counseling and educate women on ways to prevent the disease.

Christina’s cancer was detected early with an MRI. She underwent a double mastectomy, and is now doing well. She recently got engaged and announced that she is pregnant with her first child.

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Alyssa Milano made a YouTube video yesterday to ask the Old Spice guy, Isaiah Mustafa to donate money to the National Wildlife Federation’s Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund.

Looks like she’s just using the charity as an excuse to get The Man to give her a personal monocle smile though.

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TMZ has uncovered the reason for why Lindsay Lohan only got 84 minutes in jail for taking a group of kids hostage, hijacking their car, and taking them for a drunken, drug-fueled ride down the PCH in 2007. It turns out, a cop accidentally contaminated the evidence in her case, getting her an easy plea deal in court.

According to the Santa Monica Police report, an officer “discovered a folded Clinique sun care card with an unknown substance caked on to the surface of the card in Lohan’s right rear pocket”. The officer initially thought it was a crushed breath mint, so he threw it in the trash. About two minutes later, he realized that the substance resembled cocaine, and took it out of the trash and put it in an evidence envelope.

Because of the evidence contamination, Lindsay was able to get away with just 84 minutes behind bars.

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Angelina Jolie was recently photographed, offering a fake hamburger to a hungry Colombian refugee child in Ecuador.

The UN Goodwill Ambassador first met this child and his family, and others like them, during her last visit there in 2002. She told reporters that she was returning to check on their conditions and progress since her previous visit.

In all seriousness, Angelina is doing lots of good work to raise awareness for World Refugee Day, which is June 20th. More info on that here.

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Farah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal’s son Redmond O’Neal was given the OK by a judge earlier today to leave his Pasadena California rehab program.

Redmond will now be required to check himself into a sober living facility where he will probably be given help in searching for work and staying clean.

Redmond is scheduled to appear in court for his next progress report on June 22nd.

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Jon Gosselin was spotted WORKING at Ott House Pub in Maryland last night - but not to support his eight unfortunate children. Jon actually spent the night bartending for charity.

Word has it that all of the money he made went to support a local food bank.

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Taylor Swift, who moved to Nashville at the age of 14 to pursue her music career, has donated $500,000 to help flood victims in the city. She told the Associated Press,

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love. I have always been proud to be a Nashvillian, but especially now, seeing the love that runs through this city when there are people in crisis.

Taylor’s donation will go various relief organizations to help clean up and repair flood damage.

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The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office has rejected the vandalism case brought against Jesse James on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

The case stems from an incident on March 25th, when Jesse allegedly lost his temper and attacked a photographer.

Jesse also accused the photographer of stalking him. That case was dropped as well.

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Dina Lohan has reportedly just invented a new eco-friendly toothbrush.

The product is called the Aqua Freedom Green Lohan Tooth Brush (Dina’s just great with names, isn’t she?). The good news is that the toothbrush is designed to be used liquid-free, and claims to save each user two gallons of water per day. Dina debuted the brush at the Go Green Expo in New York today, in an attempt to bring awareness to the lack of clean water access in less developed nations around the world.

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A new primary school built with a $75,000 donation from Angelina Jolie has just opened in Tangi, Afghanistan.

Angelina donated the money about a year and a half ago, after making an emotional visit to the refugee settlement. The eight-classroom school will accommodate roughly 800 girls, whose parents are concerned about schooling them with boys for cultural and security reasons.

UNHCR, UNICEF, and local education authorities are currently working together to recruit teachers and buy textbooks for the students. They are also making plans to accommodate secondary school students at the same school in the future.

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Jamie Jungers has just won Howard Stern’s Tiger Woods’ mistresses beauty pageant.

She beat out Jaimee Grubbs and Loredana Jolie for the $75,000 prize. Jaimee, who was crowned runner-up, was awarded a $15,000 check.

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Chris Brown has recently accepted an invitation to read books to little kids at the Sisulu-Walker Charter School in New York in November.

The reading will take place as part of the school’s annual Family Read Night. According to the school’s principal, a number of celebrities and politicians were invited to the event. No word on who else will be attending.

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Christina Aguilera has reportedly been working with Chrysler to design an eco-friendly car called the Eco Style.

The vehicle is made with some recycled materials, and will supposedly have great gas mileage.

It will be auctioned off for charity to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.

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Sean Penn personally saved the lives of a woman and an orphaned child while working to help earthquake victims in Haiti yesterday.

The actor reportedly found the pair trapped in a collapsed building following an aftershock. He worked to free them from the building, and then drove them to the University of Miami hospital camp in Port-au-Prince for treatment. He then took them back to his home because they had nowhere else to go.

Sean plans to stay in Haiti with his 19-year-old daughter Dylan for a while to help the injured and displaced people. He told reporters today that he’s considering pulling out of the Three Stooges movie because he’s “not in a very funny state of mind right now”.

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Here’s Lindsay Lohan and some random non-speaking man (supposedly a singer-songwriter named Ferras who desperately needed press), working to convince you to donate money to help the Haiti earthquake victims.

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