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Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Alexandra Del Rosario

Lana Del Rey says LA thief stole laptop with unreleased music: ‘Please don’t listen’

LOS ANGELES — Amid the excitement of her upcoming collaboration with Taylor Swift, “Summertime Sadness” singer Lana Del Rey said she’s facing “bit of a roadblock” with her own work.

Addressing fans in a video posted Wednesday to her supposedly secret Instagram account, Del Rey revealed that she lost her in-progress album and a 200-page draft of a book she was writing for publisher Simon & Schuster.

“A few months ago, I parked my car on Melrose Place and I stepped away for a minute. And the one time I left my backpack inside my car, someone broke all of the windows and took it and inside of it was my computer and my three camcorders and my hard drives,” she said in her since-deleted Instagram Stories Wednesday.

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