What is going on with Salman and Lindsay!!

A wild rumor hit town that Lohan and the bloodthirsty crown prince of Saudi Arabia have gotten close, and that he's been flying her around in his jets and showering her with presents - including a gift-wrapped credit card. And when we started asking around, a source in her inner circle acknowledged that they "know each other."

Now a rep for Lohan tells us that the pair met just once - around a year ago at a Formula One Grand Prix race. The rep also denied that bin Salman - who has been accused of ordering the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - gave Lohan a credit card.

Either way, pals of Lohan - who even say they've seen text exchanges between the pair - are boasting about what they claim is a new friendship. The rep called those claims "lies."

While the 'Herbie: Fully Loaded' star and the vicious authoritarian would seem to make for an unlikely twosome, sources close to Lohan, who has been partly based in nearby Dubai for the past couple of years, told Page Six that it's not unusual for the "Rumors" singer to be courted by Middle Eastern dignitaries. "They go crazy for her out there," exclaimed one 

insider.

A Lohan pal also pointed out that before the gruesome killing of Washington Post journalist Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, last October, MbS - who took office in 2017 - had been touted as a modernizing force in Saudi Arabia who would push for women's rights, among other things.

Lohan - who said in 2018 that she wanted to make an all-female movie, "Frame," about Saudi culture, including Saudi women's taste for the sport of fencing - was last known to be romantically involved with Russian businessman Egor Tarabasov. They split in 2016. Before that she was linked to hotelier Vikram Chatwal.