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In Pictures: amfAR’s Cannes’ AIDS Gala And Madonna’s Charitable Bag

by | 20th, May 2010

TO the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS 2010 fundraiser at the Hotel Du Cap, Eden Roc, Cap D’Antibes during the Cannes Film Festival. Some charities the celebs like: Aids charities is one. But as Roger Freidman notes, it can be a case of you back my charity or I’ll scratch ours.

When Madonna appeared in Cannes two years ago at the annual AmFAR dinner, she auctioned off her handbag and generally carried on… Now I’ve learned that AmFAR donated $1 million to Madge’s Raising Malawi charity to get her there…

Or as he said in 2008:

So say what you will, Madonna’s presence was her donation to the cause.

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony arriving for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS 2010 fundraiser at the Hotel Du Cap, Eden Roc, Cap D'Antibes during the Cannes Film Festival

This year, the great and good helping the needy by grandstanding over nibbles and drinks were – and who cares for the showbiz so long as good is done, right: Russell Crowe, Karolina Kurkova, L’wren Scott and Mick Jagger, Gerard Butler, Svetlana Metkina, Paris Hilton, Benicio del Toro, Giorgio Armani and Kristin Scott Thomas, Fan Bingbing, Karl Lagerfeld, Marion Cotillard, Michelle Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, Kate Beckinsale, Naomi Campbell and Vladimir Doronin, Victoria Silvstedt, Emily Blunt, Chris Tucker, Camilla Belle, Mischa Barton, Ivana Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Elizabeth Banks, Tom Ford, Carine Roitfeld and amfAR Chariman Kenneth Cole, Patti Smith, the ubiquitous Hofit Golan, Rachel Bilson,Shermine Shahrivar, Roberto Cavalli and Eva Cavalli, Anna Julia Hagen and Mallika Sherawat…



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