Charitable Stars Raise Millions at Cannes

May 23, 2008 | Madonna
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This Cannes Film Festival wasn't as much about movie openings - as it was about opening bids! Sharon Stone hosted the amfAR Annual Charity benefit for AIDS research. The auction raised $10 million - with the help of an auctioned private concert with Madonna that sold for $560 thousand!

The star-studded event brought Hollywood A-listers out of the movie premieres in the south of France. "We have P. Diddy...Sean Penn...Christian Slater," said Stone, "We have a lot of big, big stars here tonight."

"I would like to thank amFAR for all the amazing work they've done over the past few decades," Madonna announced. The devastation of AIDS in Africa became a subject close to the Material Girl's heart -- she premiered "I Am Because We Are," her documentary about AIDS orphans in Malawi, where she adopted son David.

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yea , she looks miserable. what happened to her?? haha, I saw some cool videos about her on B L A C K M A T C H I N G.C O M, maybe they just joking. but those couldn’t be true and she does not car

ac
May 25, 2008

food should be well cooked and waste brakes a poor child’s heart but guess you have to have one (a heart) to realize that, so whatever

pizzadough
May 25, 2008

val - are you trying to say something?

lou
May 24, 2008

put i have to support you somehow righty

valtrex
May 23, 2008

Aren’t WE warned that the only ways to stop this epidemic are, condoms, abstinence, and no sharing of needles? Why won’t they send some condoms there, along w/ the packets of whatever else? Practice what you preach, so you can really feel great about ‘saving’ people!

Anonymous
May 23, 2008
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