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Furtado to donate Gaddafi family fee to charity
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 3 March 2011
Nelly Furtado has said she will donate the million dollars she was paid for performing at a party held by the family of Muammar Gaddafi on the island of St Barts back in 2007 to charity.
As previously reported, media attention has fallen in the last week onto a number of pop stars who have performed at the Gaddafi family’s annual New Year bash in recent years, as the Libyan leader – once considered one of the Western World’s greatest enemies – is again being seen in the West as a dangerous human rights violating dictator.
Other pop stars who have done a turn at a Gaddafi New Year party include, according to Rolling Stone, Beyonce, Usher and Mariah Carey, while 50 Cent appeared at a show for Gaddafi at the 2005 Venice Film Festival.
Furtado confirmed that she had indeed performed at a past Gaddafi family event on Twitter this week, adding that she would now donate her fee to an unnamed charity. The other stars said to have earned mega-bucks by doing short performances for the Gaddafi clan are yet to comment.
