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"Charlie Sheen gives new meaning to the phrase &amp;quot;friends with benefits.&amp;quot; The actor, 47, has proven to be a very generous pal to his Scary Movie 5 co-star Lindsay Lohan.\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday, Feb. 6, mere hours before amfAR&amp;apos;s annual New York Gala to kick off Fashion Week, the former Two and a Half Men star put in a call to celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch to ask that he dress Lohan for the glitzy event. He even offered to &amp;quot;go halfsies&amp;quot; with the Liz &amp;amp; Dick actress to pay for the gown.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Never in a business like this do you see a celebrity pay for another celebrity,&amp;quot; Bloch tells Us Weekly of Sheen, noting that the request came from the actor himself and not from an assistant. &amp;quot;He&amp;apos;s very considerate.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLohan, for her part, made good use of Bloch&amp;apos;s fashion expertise. Stunning in a nude-and-silver beaded fringe gown by Theia and a hooded fur by Mendel, the starlet joined celebs including Woody Allen, Karlie Kloss, John Legend and fiancee Chrissy Teigen, Chloe Sevigny, and Cee Lo Green in raising $2.3 million for AIDS research.\r\n\r\nThis is not the first time the Anger Management star has offered to lend a hand (and money) to the 26-year-old drama-prone actress. Last year, he volunteered to give Lohan $100,000 to help cover her tax debt, which reportedly amounted to more than $233,000. (The actress was said to have refused the money.)\r\n&amp;quot;Charlie has a long history of helping out his friends in many ways, and this is just another example of that,&amp;quot; his rep told E! News at the time."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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