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WATERVILLE ARTIST LINKED TO HOLLYWOOD STAR Greene dishes latest on Lohan
By Morning Sentinel staff Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel 02/01/2008

WATERVILLE -- Is he really dating Lindsay Lohan?

Waterville's own singer-songwriter Jeremy Greene has been in the spotlight since Monday after he was seen with the actress-singer at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City where Lohan was staying.

Stories are appearing daily in magazines and on the Internet about the supposed romance -- and Greene is being hounded by reporters calling his cell phone while he is visiting Maine.

"I never thought I'd wake up one morning and all these magazines would be talking about me," Greene said Thursday. "It's good and it's bad. It's like the gift and the curse."

Life & Style magazine reported that Lohan referred to Greene as her "new boyfriend" when the pair were outside the New York hotel Monday night.

In an interview Thursday at the Morning Sentinel, the 5-foot-9-inch, brown-haired, blue-eyed Greene said he is filming a reality show on the E! television network with Lohan and her family. His publicist told him not to answer questions about whether he and Lohan are dating.

"I can neither confirm nor deny it," Greene, 25, said with a smile. "I'm not saying I'm Lindsay's boyfriend -- I'm not saying that at all. We're just friends. You'll have to watch the E! network and find out what happens with this."

For the reality show, he and the Lohan family will live on the top floor of a posh hotel in Las Vegas, where there are eight bedrooms, a swimming pool, and a full music recording studio.

"We shot a little bit of the show on Long Island and we go out March 1 to Vegas to film at the Palms Casino Hotel for two months," Greene said.

Lohan's mother, Dina, contacted Greene last fall because she liked his music, he said. They did some initial shootings for the show and he and the Lohan family hit it off, with Greene getting along famously with Lindsay's mother and younger siblings, Ali and Cody, he said. Bunim Murray Productions made him a cast member of the show.

"They made me an offer that if I did this show, they'd give me my own spin-off show," he said. "Of course, I agreed to it."

During Thursday's interview, Greene paused several times after receiving text messages from both Lohan and her 13-year-old sister, Ali. One of the messages from Ali said, "I asked her and she said you're very handsome."

"Ali's cute -- she's playing a little matchmaker," Greene said.

Greene is fully aware of Lindsay Lohan's reputation for having trouble with alcohol and drugs, and he is not part of that world, he said.

"I think Lindsay's a very nice girl and I think she gets caught up in craziness -- but I don't," he said. "I love her family dearly. I think they're all great and we all get along. The future's endless."

"Lindsay's had a hard time.... I think she wants to have good people surrounding her. I think I could probably be a good, positive person in her life. I don't know if I could save her."

Greene grew up in Waterville's South End where he says his family background included alcoholism and drug abuse. He spent three years at Good Will-Hinckley School in Fairfield, where he said he got the help he needed to turn his life around. He made a name for himself as a pop, rock and rhythm and blues singer, songwriter -- and now producer. He has an album and some singles coming out in the spring.

Greene shuns drugs and alcohol and says they lead to disaster. In August he moved to Los Angeles, but maintains a home in Oakland. His mother lives in Winslow. He definitely wants to get married and have kids one day but says, "I know my life is no longer mine anymore."

Will he ever bring Lindsay to Maine?

"We'll see -- maybe," he said. "I told her we have good lobster. You never know."

Greene was traveling Thursday with close friend Chris Dawes, who runs Greene's production company, 3 A.M. Music Group, and will also be on the reality show. Dawes declined to say whether Lohan and Greene are officially dating.

"They have a very healthy relationship because it's just like a flourishing friendship," Dawes said. "Hopefully, everyone has the E! channel in a couple of months. They can formulate their own conclusions."

Amy Calder -- 861-9247

acalder@centralmaine.com

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