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Nicholas Prugo, 18, was taken into custody and charged with felony burglary this afternoon. He is being held on $20,000.

Audrina’s Hollywood home was burglarized on Oscar Night 2009, February 22. She posted surveillance footage of the alleged suspects on her blog several days later, but the crime remained unsolved — that is until Lindsay Lohan suffered a similar fate.

Early Sunday, Aug. 23, three burglars were captured by security cameras exiting Lohan’s empty rented Hollywood Hills mansion. The star was in her hometown of New York at the time of break-in, but the thieves allegedly swiped more than $100,000 of borrowed jewels from the home. A pair of burglars also attempted unsuccessfully to gain access to the home on May 12.

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“I can confirm that Audrina Patridge filed a restraining order against an overzealous fan,” her rep confirmed in a statement to E! News. “Audrina and her family have no relationship with this person.”

According to a petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday, Zachary Loring, 24, first appeared outside Audrina’s home on Aug. 26 and returned several days later. He was arrested on Aug. 30 and released a day later.

During his visits, Loring presented the star, who is also 24, with a packet of letters and drawings, including one that showed a woman being strangled when he first went to her home, the filing reveals.

“Ms. Patridge is in great fear of returning to her home and is currently staying outside of Los Angeles County due to her fear for her personal and physical safety,” her attorney wrote in the restraining order petition.

The order requires Loring to remain 100 yards away from Audrina and her younger brother, Mark, and to not try to contact either of them.

Audrina, a star of the MTV series The Hills, is featured alongside Rumer Willis in the new slasher flick Sorority Row, now in theaters.

With Sorority Row set to cut the box office next Fri., Sept. 11, the film’s release is the first in a series of big career changes on the horizon for the soft-spoken brunette, best known as Lauren Conrad’s bestie on the MTV reality hit The Hills.

So why is Audrina leaving the show? “You know, it’s just something that I felt inside. I’m an adult now, and I don’t need all the petty drama and drinking and fighting. I’ve done that….”

Audrina also sheds new light on the friendship — or lack thereof — with her Hills co-stars.

“I barely talk to Lauren. We’ll text every now and then, but that’s about it. Heidi, um, keeps asking me to go to Bible study with her.”
The aspiring actress is looking forward to giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at her life of basking in the Los Angeles sun with The Audrina Show, an unscripted project produced by Survivor executive producer Mark Burnett.

“I’m praying for Audrina, because I know what she’s going through this season of The Hills. She is an emotional wreck from watching Kristin Cavallari and Justin Bobby fall in love,” Spencer quipped in an interview with MTV News on Tuesday.

“Since Kristin was quoted first saying how great Heidi performed her hit song ‘Body Language’ in front of a billion eyes and how hard it looked like she worked to prepare for it… heartbroken Audrina does not want to agree with anything she says…” he added.

This is just the latest in an ongoing war of words between Spencer and Audrina. In June, Spencer referred to Audrina as a “ho” after reports surfaced romantically linking her to Star Trek actor Chris Pine.

The reality personality — who stars in the college-themed slasher flick Sorority Row opening this month — is so convinced that she’s in line for a motion picture careers, she’s decided to leave her post on MTV’s The Hills at the end of the show’s upcoming sixth season.

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AP has joined the thousands of insulted music fans pointing and laughing at Heidi’s vocal prowlness — or lack thereof.

“I feel like Heidi, you know, she’s doing it for fun, where a lot of singers and people, they work their ass off, and they actually have amazing voices and they can really sing and perform, and I feel like a lot of people don’t get to experience what Heidi has, going on in front of a billion people and perform on TV,” the aspiring actress told PEOPLE while promoting her new movie Sorority Row over the weekend. “I just don’t think she’s taking it that serious, and that’s what’s kind of disappointing for me, for music lovers out there.”

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E! News tattles claim MTV has forced an excited Audrina Patridge to pull out of plans to kick off her Sunday shoes on the upcoming ninth season of ABC’s ballroom reality competitition, Dancing With The Stars. Network execs at the network–where Audrina has made a name for herself as one of a dozen affluent twentysomething socialites conquering adulthood in sunny L.A. on The Hills — reportedly fear that the grueling schedule customary of DWTS contestants will cause “schedule conflicts” for The Hills .

“They won’t let Audrina do it. They told her it would be impossible because of scheduling conflicts,” reveals an E! source, who adds, “Audrina wants to do it. Everyone around her wants her to do it, but MTV, for some reason, won’t make it happen. Why wouldn’t they want someone from The Hills on such a huge show?”

Designer Vera Wang, La Toya Jackson, and reality star Dean McDermott are among the stars who will reportedly hit the ballroom when Dancing With The Stars kicks off its ninth season on ABC September 21. An official announcement of this season roster will be revealed on Good Morning America this Monday.

Who says you can’t buy friendship?

Audrina Patridge will get a whole new clique of fashionable galpals when she departs The Hills next month for greener pastures on her own “reality” spinoff.

The new MTV show, tenatively-titled The Colony, will begin shooting in August, and series producers are already casting girls to join Audrina’s new crew, a production source reveals to Star Magazine in its July 13 edition.

“The show is currently casting for Audrina’s new BFFs.”

“They have chosen a girl pursuing a music career,” says one inside snoop, who adds that, “The others will also have some sort of artsy interest.”

Audrina, 24, has been very involved in selecting the people who will pretend to be her friends for the sake of television.

“She wants to make sure they find people she actually wants to get to know.”

The Hills’ brunette beauty has snatched up a spinoff series that is set to debut on MTV later this year.

On Wednesday, Audrina confirmed industry rumors linking her to a preliminary deal with Survivor producer Mark Burnett.

The brunette star describes the series as a “spicier, edgier [and] older” than The Hills that will focus largely on her lovelife.

Filming will begin on the tentatively-named The Audrina Show at the end of the summer.

Will you watch Audrina’s new show?

Well this is one way to sell hamburgers….

A bikini-clad Audrina Patridge is heating up the small screen in brand new commercial for West Coast fast food chain Carl’s Jr.

The 24-year-old star of MTV’s “reality drama” >The Hills has been tapped to promote Carl’s new “healthier” Teriyaki Burger under the tagline: ”More than just a piece of meat.”

How do you think Audrina’s new commercial for Carl Jr.’s compares to Paris Hilton’s now-infamous banned ad for the franchise?