The father of Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali reportedly offered to sell his 9-year-old daughter for nearly $300,000, Britain’s News of the World reports.

Trying to confirm that he is fielding several lucrative adoption offers, reporters from the paper posed as a wealthy Middle Eastern family interested in buying the girl.

“I have to consider what’s best for me, my family and Rubina’s future,” said Rubina’s dad, Rafiq Qureshi, who claims to be broke and left with “nothing” from the Oscar-winning flick.

The paper claims that Rubina was originally being sold for $75,000, but her father raised the price after the success of Slumdog.

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“The child is special now,” the girl’s uncle said, according to the paper. “This is an Oscar child!”

A rep for Save The Children, a charity with offices in Mumbai, said Rubina’s case should force India to crack down on child and human trafficking.

“The Indian government must sign up to the International Labor Organization’s convention for abolishing the worst forms of child labor and trafficking,” said the group’s director of campaigns Adrian Lovett.

Her father has denied the paper’s claims.

Police called Rubina and her father to a police station on Sunday night and recorded their statements.

“On Sunday, Rubina’s mother Khurshid complained to us that her ex-husband was trying to sell her daughter, saying she saw some reports on television to that effect,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Nisar Tamboli told Reuters.

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Adams Adams talks about being uncool, why she is putting off wedding plans and how she went from Gap employee to movie star.

ON ATTENDING THIS YEAR’S ACADEMY AWARDS AS A NOMINEE…

“I just was so reflective the whole evening on how I came to be sitting in that room. At one point my fiancé was like, ‘You feel distant.’ And I said, ‘I am! I can’t even talk to you!’ I was there at the Oscars thinking, What if I never left the Gap?”

ON STRIVING TO BE ONE OF THE “COOL” GIRLS IN HIGH-SCHOOL…

“I’d hated school. The people were indifferent toward me, and that’s the worst thing in my mind. We were defined by the clothes we bought at the mall. If I didn’t get things on clearance, I wasn’t getting them. I would make fake Guess jeans by buying a cheaper brand with a triangle label and then cutting it off so you could still see the triangle outline. It’s so sad that I did that! But I really wanted to be one of those girls.”

ON HAVING YET TO PLAN HER WEDDING WITH FIANCE FOR ALMOST A YEAR, ACTOR DARREN LE GALLO…

“I have a reputation as a poor planner, so expectations are pretty low. When I have people to my house for dinner and tell them it’s casual, they think that means don’t wear high heels, but I mean, ‘You’ll be getting your own forks out of the drawer.’”

ON LANDING A JOB AT THE GAP WHEN SHE WAS 18 YEARS OLD…

“[It was] a huge deal, because with the 40-percent-off discount I could finally buy things that weren’t on sale!”

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I’m baaaaaaack! Thank you so much to Kiki for covering for me while I was gone.  The break was nice, but I’m eager to get back to posting!

Have any of you done anything exciting for Spring Break?

Jocelyn

Christopher Mintz-Plasse better known as “McLovin” from the film “Superbad” signs some autographs after filming a TV show in Hollywood.

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Natasha Richardson has been taken off life support, according to NYC legendary columnist, Liz Smith.

Smith has extremely close ties to the whole Broadway scene and is certainly in a position to know. Smith says as of 1:30 PM ET today, Natasha was taken off life support.

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Meg Ryan took to the streets of Santa Monica Monday afternoon with a book under her arm entitled “River of Words.” Ryan joins the increasing list of celebrities supporting their own charitable cause as the River of Words organization helps kids learn more about protecting the environment.

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