George Clooney and the more than one hundred stars who performed on “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” raised more than $57 million.
Stars who appeared on the show included Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Sting, Bono, Rihanna, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen and more. It also nabbed the biggest single day pre-album sales in itune history.
If you want to add to the 57 million, you can donate for the next six month, via one of the following.
“Hope for Haiti Now” will continue accepting donations for the next six months. Here’s how to give:
-Visit www.hopeforhaitinow.org
-Call 877-99-HAITI
Text “GIVE” to 50555
Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry Foundation, 1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700, Los Angeles, CA 90017
The Hollywood for Haiti got under way. 122 stars came together to raise money for those devastated in that huge earthquake that rocked the town on Jan 22.
“This is a tragedy that reaches across all borders and all boundaries and demands our attention, our help and our compassion as fellow human beings,” said Clooney, while hosting the two hour “Hope for Haiti” fundraising telethon.
Performers included: Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Coldplay, Rihanna, Sting, Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow, and addresses from former president Bill Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Samuel L. Jackson.
Director Stephen Spielberg, and actors Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Reese Witherspoon and Penelope Cruz helmed the phones.
Here are some more stars that also have been donating to the cause for relief groups.
Scarlett Johannson: The actress is offering a meet-and-greet session after a performance of her Broadway play A View From the Bridge to the highest bidder of an online auction to benefit Oxfam’s Haiti relief efforts. (Us Magazine)
Jay-Z and U2 rocker Bono : have teamed up to record a song about Haiti to raise money for relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged country.
George Clooney worked the red carpet to recruit other stars for the Hope for Haiti fundraising telethon he’s co-hosting next week. Bono, Sting, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys will all be performing.
Other Stars On Haiti on the Red Carpet
- Mickey Rourke said he’s already sent his “boots” as a contribution to support Haiti, but he’d like to hang on to his custom-made David August suit for a while.
- Director James Cameron says he has plans to donate proceeds from Avatar’s box office profits to help victims of the Haitian earthquake. “I challenged 20th Century Fox to step up and match me with some money, ” he said. “and it turned out to be a significant amount of money that went down there. And I’m going to have that same conversation with them.”
Daily Mail UK – There is more than a decade between them, but Cindy Crawford and Elisabetta Canalis both have the same idea when it comes to dressing for the red carpet. The brunettes each chose black floor-length gowns for the Fantastic Mr Fox premiere on the opening night of the London Film Festival. Their matching dresses were slashed to the waist on the right, displaying the long slender limbs of their wearers. And the two even accessorised in a similar way, with black square clutches and high heels.
Dressed to impress: Elisabetta Canalis and Cindy Crawford wore matching black floor-length gowns to the Fantastic Mr Fox premiere in London
Italian TV presenter Elisabetta, 31, was accompanying her boyfriend George Clooney, who voices the lead character in the animated movie. The 48-year-old is a close friend of supermodel Cindy, 43.Joing them at the premiere were Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum. Model Sophie wore white ballet pumps with her red dress, while singer Jamie stuck to a sober suit.
Her grandmother Felicity, Roald’s widow, arrived arm in arm with director Wes Craven.British actress Thandie Newton brought her children – nine-year-old Ripley and four-year-old Nico – to watch the film.Clooney hogged the limelight after his co-star, Meryl Streep, bowed out due to illness.’It’s great to be here and we have a bunch of films on show,’ Clooney said of the festival, which has three of his films in its programme.He also signed autographs for fans, who had gathered at the film’s world premiere – issuing a safety warning to some.
PEOPLE – Believe it or not, perpetual bachelor George Clooney sees lots of children in his future. They’re just not his own. “I’m going to adopt some of Brad Pitt’s kids. I owe him a few,” he joked at Wednesday’s press conference in London for his new flick Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on Roald Dahl’s book and set to open in the U.S. Nov. 25. The notorious ladies’ man, 48, mostly recently spotted on the arm of Italian TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis, says he feels like he’s skipped from the dad stage straight to granddad status. He says this seems especially so considering the fact that in the stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox he voices the role of the father to the character played by 29-year-old Jason Schwartzman (who recently married clothing designer Brady Cunningham). “Just having Jason here next to me makes me feel like a father,” he quipped. “He just got married, so I feel like a grandfather. I’m jumping right into it. I will bring lots of kids to the red carpet.”
OK! George, 48, enjoyed a day in the Italian countryside with latest lady love, model Elisabetta Canalis
and fellow celebrity couple Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.
She’s my girl: A smiling Clooney, who broke his hand after slamming it in a car door last month, waves to fans
Daily Mail – With her successful career as a pin-up and TV presenter in her native Italy, Elisabetta Canalis must have thought her life couldn’t get much better.And then [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
Good thing he wears a helmet! Now George Clooney just needs some sporty gloves to match as the handsome actor has broken his hand in a
car accident of sorts, his rep confirms to PEOPLE. According to European media reports, Clooney was riding his Harley Davidson around
Lake Lugano, at the border of Italy and Switzerland, with current squeeze Elisabetta Canalis when the accident occurred a couple weeks
ago. His rep, however, tells PEOPLE what really happened. “There was an accident and he did break his hand,” Clooney’s rep Stan Rosenfield
said Thursday. “He was not riding a motorcycle, it was not in Switzerland … He was on his property in Italy and he shut the car
door on his hand.”
George Clooney is gearing up for a legal war in Italy — claiming invasive paparazzi climbed over the wall of his Italian home and shot a topless photo of a 13-year-old girl changing in one of his guest rooms.The photographer also took shots of Clooney and his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis enjoying private moments in the yard of his estate.The photos were published in two magazines — and in a statement to TMZ, Clooney says he’s gunning to sue both the mags and the photog who took the pictures.
“We’re suing two magazines AND a photographer. I don’t know about the law in the United States but in Italy it’s illegal for photographers to climb over my wall and to take long lens pictures of a 13-year-old girl in her bedroom.I draw the line of privacy at that.”
