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Lindsay Lohan a fink in mink?
By M&C People
May 7, 2008, 2:56 GMT

A blond mink coat is the epicenter of a very public brouhaha between a New York gal and Lindsay Lohan, who were at the same restaurant one fateful night.

Lohan has been caught dead to rights wearing an $11,000 fur coat belonging to Masha Markova, which went missing from a birthday party in a New York bar.

Masha claims her pricey animal fur coat "vanished" when she went to leave the trendy nightspot 1 Oak, where she was celebrating the birthday of a friend on January 26.

Then, lo and behold:  Lohan was snapped wearing the identical garment in the pages of a celebrity magazine in photographs taken the same night the coat went missing. PHOTOS

Markova tells the New York Post, "It was my coat. It was no doubt."

Lawyers were subsequently engaged, which resulted in a mysterious returning of the item via the 1 Oak Bar, without explanation, "smelling of alcohol and cigarette smoke and with a tear in the lining" according to the Post.

Now, Markova is demanding a $10,000 fee for the rental. She says, "I don't see how it could have been an accident."