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A young woman who plays Snow White at the world famous Disneyland is enjoying a real-life fairy tale after her visits to the wishing well paid off.
Actress Natalie Marston has swapped her seven dwarfs for seven much bigger figures are winning more than (US$5.2 million on the Californian lottery.
"I know I played Snow White but I feel more like Cinderella," said the 22-year-old happy beauty, who no longer has any reason to feel grumpy. "In a million years, I would not have thought something like this could happen to me."
Natalie hit the jackpot when on a whim she bought a winning scratch off ticket that that earned her US$2,000 but also qualified her to appear on the California Lottery TV game show Make Me a Millionaire.

American Pie actor Jason Biggs went ape when he was viciously attacked by a monkey while on a visit to Gibraltar.
The 31-year-old actor was so upset that his dream holiday to the Mediterranean rock had turned into a nightmare that he fled home.
Biggs was enjoying a hike in the wilderness on the British territory, with his American Pie co-star Eddie Kaye Thomas, when the wild monkey went for him.
"Jason and Eddie decided to go on the trip to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Pie," a friend of the actor said. "They were hiking in The woods when this monkey suddenly leapt on Jason from a tree and tried to bite his face off.

The investigation into Michael Jackson's death is taking so long because only three detectives have been assigned to the case, it has been claimed.
Los Angeles police have yet to interview the late King of Pop's security guard and chief of staff because there are not enough officers working on the investigation, according to reports in the United States.
"There are only three detectives from LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division assigned to the case," an insider said. "This is one of the reasons the investigation is still ongoing at this point."
Alberto Alvarez, who made the 911 emergency call the day the Thriller singer died, has not been interviewed by police.

A British fancy dress firm is suing a New York company over its plans to sell Michael Jackson costumes.
Lincolnshire based Smiffy's sued Rubie's Costume Co in Manhattan Federal Court, claiming it has the worldwide rights to sell replica outfits.
The company, whose best-selling Jacko lines include a single-gloved Billie Jean costume and one from Bad, with a long black wig, claims Rubie's has already cost it more than $250,000  by make sales pitches to potential clients.
But Queens-based Rubie's claims it obtained rights to the Jackson clothes from a California company, according to the New York Daily News.

Rock princess Lisa Marie Presley gave birth to twin daughters last October – but it's her nanny who got the baby blues.
Christine White is suing Elvis Presley's 41-year-old daughter, claiming she was overworked and underpaid.
White complains in her suit she was not given meal breaks and was forced to work seven days a week without overtime pay.
According to celebrity site TMZ she claims she was not even allowed 10-minute breaks.
Lisa Marie gave birth to fraternal twins Harper and Finley on October 7, nine months after marrying her guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood.
Her first husband, musician Danny Keough, father of her daughter Danielle, 20, and 16-year-old son Benjamin, was best man.

A man charged with stalking teen star Miley Cyrus is a “danger,” according to a judge who refused to lower his bail.
Mark McLeod, 53, tried to contact the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star three times while she was filming The Last Song on Tybee Island, Georgia.
Municipal Court Judge Steven Scheer said he believed Cyrus was safe from McLeod because she “can afford the best protection money can buy.”
But he refused to reduce his $55,200 bail because he believes he could be a threat to other.
He said: “I can't deny him bond but if I could I would because I do feel he's a danger.”

Lindsay Lohan is said to be furious about the theft of her safe from her Los Angeles house during a weekend burglary because of the contents.
According to columnist Bill Zecker the safe was stuffed with: “Some very incriminating videos and photos, plus legal documents, that LiLo believes could cause embarrassment if made public.”
The 23-year-old Mean Girls star was not at home during the break-in, but discovered it when she returned home after a party about seven o'clock on Sunday morning.
She phoned be father, Michael, who in turn called police.
But he is not content to leave the investigation in the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department and is getting on the case himself.

Singer Chris Brown has been sentenced to five years probation and six months of community service for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna.
He was also ordered to stay away from the Umbrella singer for five years.
Brown, 20, will serve his community sentence in Virginia, removing graffiti, washing cars and cleaning and maintaining public spaces.
He pleaded guilty in June to one count of felony assault after beating Rihanna during a row after a pre-Grammy party in February.
As part of his plea bargain with prosecutors a second charge of making felony threats was dropped.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg also ordered Brown not to have any contact with Rihanna, 21, for five years, including phone calls and e-mails.

The crypt above Marilyn Monroe's final resting place was sold for a staggering $4,602,100.
But hours later the successful Japanese bidder e-mailed to cancel the sale.
The crypt has been home to late entrepreneur Richard Poncher for 23 years since his death at 81.
His widow, Elsie, put it up for auction on eBay with an opening bid of $500,000 in the hope of paying off the $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
The online auction, which started on August 14, attracted 21 bids, 11 for $4.5 million.
The winning bid was just $100 above the second highest when the auction closed.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford admits her body is not what it used to be – and she doesn't care.
And the 43-year-old mother of two is not afraid to wear a bikini, even if it exposes her flaws.
“I have cellulite,” she told Redbook magazine. “I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.”
Crawford, who has been married to club owner Rande Gerber, 46, for 11 years, and whose first husband was American Gigolo star Richard Gear, 59, went on: “I think I look good for my age.
“I am not 25; I am 43. That feels like a big pressure, especially when the National Enquirer is dying to get a picture.

Actress Melanie Griffith, who has battled booze and drugs since her teenage days, has checked into rehab.
The 52-year-old Body Double and Crazy in Alabama star is staying a Cirque Lodge in Utah, where Lindsay Lohan was treated in 2007.
“She is there to reinforce her commitment to say health,” her spokesman told television show Entertainment Tonight. “This is part of a routine plan that was designed between her and her doctors years ago.”
Griffith has admitted taking cocaine when she was a teenager.
Drink and drugs were a part of her first, six-month marriage to future Miami Vice star Don Johnson in 1976, when she was just 18.

US Senator Edward Kennedy has died after a 15-month battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
Kennedy, the senior Democratic senator, was diagnosed in May 2008 and underwent successful surgery two weeks later.
He survived much longer than doctors expected, though he was unable to attend the Senate in recent months, or even go to the funeral of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, earlier this month.
Kennedy was a towering figure in American politics, entering the Senate in 1962 in a special election in which he replaced his brother John, who was then President.
With the assassinations of John in 1963, and later his Presidential candidate brother Robert in 1968, he became the most prominent member of the powerful Kennedy clan.

Temperamental actress Lindsay Lohan turned into a really mean girl when a worker in a delicatessen refused to give back her “lost” mobile telephone.
The absent-minded star went ballistic when the man refused to automatically hand over the precious Blackberry that she had accidentally left behind because she could not verify it was hers.
The row with Mohammed Hashan at Mott Corner Deli in Manhattan's Little Italy got so heated that 23-year-old Lohan demanded a friend call the police.
The bizarre bust-up began when the Mean Girls star popped into the shop for a cup of ice, left without the Blackberry and leaped into a passing taxi.

Country music beauty LeAnn Rimes has been questioned by police over an alleged hit-and-run car crash.
Officers rushed to her home soon after the 26-year-old Grammy-winner allegedly fled the scene of the collision in the Brentwood area of West Los Angeles.
Officials said that Rimes was questioned about her possible involvement in a hit-and-run accident around 7:45 pm on Thursday.
She was quizzed by officers as part of an investigation into the Thursday evening incident, police Officer Norma Eisenman said. She was not arrested.
Rimes was driving a 2009 Audi Q5 when she allegedly rear-ended a 2006 BMW X5 that was stopped in the left turn lane. There were no injuries and minor damage to the cars, according to reports.

Screen stunner Charlize Theron got into a row with boyfriend Stuart Townsend after she slabbed another man's bottom.
The Oscar-winning blonde bombshell's long-time partner stormed out of the Crown Bar in West Hollywood after she got a bit rowdy with a bystander, according to witnesses.
The couple, who were attending an anniversary party on Friday night, were spotted swigging champagne all evening until South African born Charlize suddenly got a bit frisky with a man standing nearby.
"She leaned over the table and smacked some other guy's arse," an eyewitness said.
"Stuart looked pissed, and looked at her and said 'Why did you do that?'"

Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr was at the centre of a shooting mystery today.
Police searched the champion's Las Vegas home hours after Mayweather allegedly threatened a man's life.
Detectives scoured the 32-year-old fighter's mansion looking for a gun after his car was spotted at the scene of a shooting that took place on Sunday night.
Mayweather's acquaintance Quincey Williams, 24, claimed to be the target of the late-night shooting incident outside the Crystal Palace Skating Centre on the outskirts Las Vegas.
He told police that Mayweather, who thrashed British boxer Ricky Hatton to take the WBC welterweight championship in December 2007, threatened his life less than an hour before shots were fired in the rink's car park.

Screen stunner Jessica Biel's body is dangerous – at least for computers.
Searching for pictures of the 27-year-old blonde bombshell may wreak havoc on your hardware.
The actress, who is dating pop heartthrob Justin Timberlake, has landed at the top of security technology company McAfee's annual list of celebrities whose search-engine results are most likely harbouring spyware, computer viruses or other junk that slows your system down.
There is a one-in-five chance – in other words, 20 percent - that googling Biel could do harm to your computer if you try to download something having to do with the star, according to the antivirus-software maker.

Fans of Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio will be seeing a lot less of the actor in his next movie – because he has been put on a strict died.
Movie makers have demanded that the 34-year-old chubby star shed at least 30 pounds.
DiCaprio has to show off his muscular body in a fight scene to be filmed for his new movie Inception, a blackmail scandal drama currently being shot in Morocco.
And studio bosses were horrified that DiCaprio had packed on the pounds in recent months and they thought he looked flabby, according to reports in the United States.
As a result, DiCaprio has embarked on a major crash diet in the hopes of losing weight before the end of the year - and he isn't enjoying it one bit.

Screen sex siren Angelina Jolie's late mother helped to make three of her grandchildren independently wealthy in her will.
Actress Marcheline Bertrand left US$100,000 each to granddaughters Zahara and Shiloh and grandson Maddox, court papers filed in Los Angeles have revealed.
Bertrand died in January 2007 of ovarian cancer at the age of 56 - before her daughter went on to adopt grandson Pax in March that year and gave birth to twins – grandson Knox and granddaughter Vivienne – by her long-time boyfriend, actor Brad Pitt, in July 2008.
Angelina and her brother James Haven were co-executors of the estate.
They filed the final paperwork which revealed Marcheline also left US$25,000 to her sister and brother and nephews on Monday.

Ireland's famous Artane Band starts its first tour of the United States in 11 years later this week – playing Michael Jackson music as a tribute to the late King of Pop.
The 62-member Artane Band, which has not been in the US for 11 years, touches down in the states on Thursday and will perform its first engagement Friday night at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester, Massachusetts.
When the young musicians – ranging in age from 11 to 18 - first heard word last year of plans to come to America, there were some doubts if the trip would come about, revealed the band's music director Ronan O'Reilly.