oh no...Beyonce still holding Gaddafi's $2 Million dollars...

What would you do for a million dollars? Chances are, at some time in your life you have asked someone this question, or have been asked yourself. At the root of it,  is the desire to see how far a person will go and how much they are willing to sacrifice, to become richer.

As the world watches  Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi order soldiers and aircraft to fire upon his own people, the question is of particular concern to the musical artists who have performed for the Libyan dictator’s sons.
Nelly Furtado announced via Twitter, that she will donate the $1 million she received from the “Qaddafi clan” in 2007 for performing a 45 minute show at an Italian hotel. Furtado’s announcement will potentially pressure other artists who have played for the Qaddafi family to follow suit.

In 2009, Beyonce performed at a New Year’s party thrown by Muammar Qaddafi’s son, Muatassim in St Barts. The international superstar’s management (#2 on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 ) confirmed that she performed for the party, and “past performers in St. Bart’s have included Timbaland, Enrique Iglesias and Mariah Carey,” though she remains mum on whether the reported $2 million she was paid for the gig is true. The R & B singer Usher was also in attendance and performed the night’s countdown in front of a number of notable guests, including Lindsey Lohan, Russell Simmons, and Jay-Z.

According to a Wikileaks cable reported by The New York Times, a year earlier Mariah Carey was paid $1 million to sing four songs, far more than she would earn from a typical gig in the United States. Other artists who lent their voices to Libyan royalty are Timbaland, Enrique Iglesias, 50 cent and Lionel Richie.
Celebrities are not politicians and we often get annoyed when they try to be, but it will be interesting to see if in the next few days, these performers reconsider what they would do for a million bucks.

Nelly Furtado to donate $1m Gaddafi concert fee to charity...are others turning a blind eye??

Singer plans to give away money she received for performing for the family of Libyan leader in 2007....will Beyonce, Usher and Mariah Carey do the same? They have recently (in the last year at most)  taken blood money from this sick deranged imbecile Gaddafi......

Four years after she performed at a private concert for Libya's Gaddafi family, singer Nelly Furtado has announced that she will donate the $1m (£615,500) fee to charity. Furtado's decision has intensified the spotlight on other pop stars, including Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Usher, who performed at parties for the sons of Muammar Gaddafi.

"In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Qaddafi clan to perform a 45 min. Show for guests at a hotel in Italy," Furtado wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. "I am going to donate the $." Furtado's announcement is no small thing – money aside, it is tied up in both international and show business politics. For unknown reasons, Furtado's tweet was deleted on Monday morning but reinstated in the afternoon. According to Furtado's label, the Maneater singer will soon reveal which charity will be the beneficiary of the Gaddafi concert fee.

However, other stars who performed for the Gaddafi family in recent years have refused to comment on whether they will donate their fees or not. "People put a big paycheck on the table, and people don't consider where the money is coming from, or what they're at least passively endorsing," suggested David T Viecelli, a booking agent for Arcade Fire and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. "If it's true that Muammar Gaddafi's son says, 'I've got $50m, come and play for my buddies', I really think you have to say no to that. Given what we know about Gaddafi and what his rule has been about, you have to willfully turn a blind eye in order to accept that money."