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Post by maxx02 on Oct 30, 2007 15:08:38 GMT
Here you go:
Denise Rich and her celebrity pals from Ivana Trump to Liz Smith to Randy Jackson pulled in $5 million for cancer research Monday night at the 10th annual Angel Ball.
The evening got off to a good start with Smith, our hero, introducing the program and looking like a million bucks. Kelly Ripa and husband, Mark Consuelos, also helped kick things off. The evening’s honorees included BET’s Debra Lee, Harper’s Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey and Dr. Stephen D. Nimer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Not since Denise’s big back-to-back parties in 1999 and 2000 has the half-a-billionaire, songwriter and sometime controversial friend of the Clintons pulled out all the stops.
She stuffed 1,400 people into the Marriott Marquis ballroom, mingling her performers with big A-list names such as Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Joss Stone and John Legend with Joan Collins, Clive Davis, Neil Sedaka, Petra Nemcova, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Damon Dash, "Sex and the City" actor Jason Lewis, Broadway star Rufus Sewell of Tom Stoppard’s "Rock and Roll," Nikki Haskell, Beverly Johnson, Ann Dexter-Jones, artist Hunt Slonem, Broadway exec Margo McNabb and so on.
Class act that man...
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Post by ruthy on Oct 30, 2007 15:57:16 GMT
Trust Rufus to blag a free party
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Post by dreamer on Oct 30, 2007 16:04:57 GMT
Sincerely I thought he has spent his birthday together with Billy!
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Post by ukelelehip on Oct 30, 2007 16:42:08 GMT
Trust Rufus to blag a free party Fundraisers don't tend to be free
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Post by maxx02 on Oct 30, 2007 16:47:35 GMT
forget about all that... Rufus is named as a big "A-List" name... now that's something to take note of... ;D
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Post by ruthy on Oct 30, 2007 17:02:21 GMT
Maybe not free but cheaper than throwing your own party. Good on him.
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Post by maxx02 on Oct 30, 2007 18:04:46 GMT
um, I dunno. Say it cost 5K a plate and both he and Alice went-- You can have a mighty good blow-out in almost any restaurant for 10K especially if you don't drink. Of course that isn't a tax deduction... but it's funnier your way, ruthy.
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Post by ukelelehip on Oct 30, 2007 18:25:27 GMT
Maybe not free but cheaper than throwing your own party. Good on him. Oops, I forget that different people have different budgets. I think $50.00 is expensive for a meal... *has a little Frank moment* A hundred quid? I can't afford that! You wanted to go here, you pay for this yuppie overpriced dump!So perhaps this was cheaper and for a good cause too. Right on.
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Post by rufluvr on Oct 30, 2007 19:16:36 GMT
Rufus has always been A-list to us!! I hope that he had a fabulous time at the fundraiser with all the various people there to chat and yuk it up with. Sounds like something he would enjoy, and the birthday bucks that would surely be spent somewhere were put towards a good cause. Bravo. They were lucky to have him- I have no doubt he was the life of the party! One might note it's also good for Rock 'n Roll for him to get out and about--keep it up Ruf, I want the full run so I might be able to save up and see ya! Actually, from all I know of his talent and all our gals' first hand reviews my real concern should be getting tickets before it sells out!
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Oct 30, 2007 20:39:16 GMT
Denise Rich and her celebrity pals from Ivana Trump to Liz Smith to Randy Jackson pulled in $5 million for cancer research Monday night at the 10th annual Angel Ball.
Class act that man... Sorry. Maxx! I went straight to the media thread and posted this before I saw your post! But there are pics over there!
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Post by maxx02 on Oct 30, 2007 20:47:12 GMT
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