Luxist

Filed under: Auctions, Charity, Charity of the Day, Big Givers

Last week’s star studded charity auction and dinner event at Cannes, raked in a whopping $10 million for amfAR, a leading AIDS research organization. Founded in 1985, amfAR is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through continued innovative research. Tickets to attend the bash went for $5,000 a person and accounted for a good portion of the evenings earnings. Celebrities in attendance included Madonna who donated her purse complete with it’s contents to the evenings auction…it went for a staggering $1.5 million! It’s nice to see people coming together with such a successful outcome, $10 million is quite an accomplishment for one evening!

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Luxist

Create Instant Buzz

Filed under: Main on May 26th, 2008