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- Sunday, 2 Apr 2006
Online gambling sites have been in competition for several years. Considering that advertising for online gambling is limited, it is not surprising that many sites are looking for crazy ways to make themselves known. There is one gambling site in particular that has bought everything on ebay from a pancake with jesus on it to Michael Jacksons old racing license. But the fact is, sometimes these items happen to be fake and gambling sites end up losing quite a bit of cash.
Recent nude photos, reportedly of singing sensation Britney Spears, have turned out to be nothing more than an elaborate hoax. But no one is laughing at Midas Palace.com, the online gambling poker site that shelled out an astonishing $40,000 for the set of 16 photographs. The original story broke on March 17th and was immediately picked up by news outlets around the world. In the article, online gambling site Midas Palace.com reported the completion of a sale on a popular auction site where a collection of nude photos of Britney Spears was purchased for $40,000.
The photos were reported to have been put up for sale by a New York City based memorabilia dealer, who claimed that Spears' ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake was the original source of the pictures. Once the story broke, a friend of Spears was quoted as saying that the star "is flipping out" and saying that Spears is furious because the photographs are faked. While Midas Palace.com stated that photos may be made available to members of their internet gambling site, they had said that no action would be taken until lab results could verify the authenticity of the photographs. Preliminary reports are now in, and suggests that the photos are, in fact, forgeries, using the latest computer software to super-impose Britney Spears' head onto another body. | |
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