BBC News Entertainment & Arts 2 March 2011 Last updated at 10:08 GMT
Nelly Furtado to give up Gaddafi concert fee Nelly Furtado Nelly Furtado gave a private show at a hotel in Italy in 2007 Singer Nelly Furtado has said that she will give away $1 million (£615,000) she was paid to perform for the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The star said on Twitter she had given a private 45-minute show for Gaddafi's "clan" in 2007 at a hotel in Italy. The 32-year-old did not say which charity she would donate the money to. Other stars including Beyonce and Usher are reportedly facing music industry calls to surrender fees earned from performing for Gaddafi's family. Roling Stone said the pair received an undisclosed sum for perfoming at a New Year's Eve party on the Caribbean island of St Barts in 2009. It added Mariah Carey accepted $1 million to perform for Gaddafi's son Muatassim the previous year, and rapper 50 Cent also gave a show for him at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Managers for Usher, 50 Cent, Carey and Beyonce have so far declined to comment. Colonel Gaddafi has been condemned for using violence to quell a popular uprising in Libya, with the death toll from nearly two weeks of fighting estimated by diplomats to be 2,000. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
