Kevin Spacey - Stars Help To Raise 4 Million At Charity Auction

Actors KEVIN SPACEY, KATE BECKINSALE and HUGH GRANT helped to raise more than $4 million (GBP2 million) for cancer research, after attending a charity auction in London on Saturday (07Jun08).

U2 frontman Bono, Pirates of the Caribbean hunk Orlando Bloom and his model girlfriend Miranda Kerr were also in attendance at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Gala, which was held in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace - the former home of British royal King Henry VIII.

Philanthropist Bono made a surprise appearance on stage hailing the work of the organisation, before making way for Notting Hill star Grant to begin the auction.

And Grant showed his generous side by bidding $250,000 (GBP125,000) for a chance to have dinner with the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who founded the organisation. The money will go towards funding cancer research in the U.K. and Russia, reports People.com.

Bloom admitted he was thrilled to be a part of the event - and would have loved the chance to dine with the former Soviet leader had it not been such an expensive auction item.

He says, "It is amazing to come and support something associated with Mikhail Gorbachev because of what he did. He's going to go down in history because of the way he changed the world."

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Spanish Villa Trashed Following 'Facebook Party'

A £5million villa in Spain has been damaged after 400 revellers were invited to a party via the social networking site Facebook.



A 16-year-old girl, known only as Jodie, published the address and details about the event – which was billed as the “party of the year”.



"Theres gone be a lot of alcohol an amazing DJ," she said in the invite.



According to the Mirror newspaper, partygoers hurled a television and tables into the swimming pool and stole over £6,000 worth of jewellery and clothes.



Jodie had been told that she could hold the party by Amanda Hudson, who owns the villa, the newspaper claims.



Partygoers fled the property shortly when police were called shortly after midnight.



Do you think people should be allowed to post details of parties on social networking sites? Let us know what you think by posting a comment below...

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Saint Germain

   
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Britney Spears - Spears Federline Celebrate Fathers Day In Las Vegas

BRITNEY SPEARS and her ex-husband KEVIN FEDERLINE both celebrated Father's Day separately in Las Vegas this weekend (15Jun08).

The couple - whose divorced was finalised in July last year (07) - was both photographed in Sin City, but carefully managed to avoid each other.

Spears, 26, was seen sipping water at the Palms Place hotel, while Federline picked up his Father of the Year award at Prive Las Vegas.

It is the second time Federline has been handed the honour: he was previously given the title by Details magazine last November (07).

The former couple left their two children Sean Preston, two and Jayden James, one, at home for the weekend.

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La Autoridad de la Sierra were born of a small splinter group that left the duranguense front-runners K-Paz de la Sierra. Former K-Paz composer and arranger Arturo Palomar, originally from Guadalajara, along with a few other key bandmates, distinct in October of 2004 to walk away from unitary of the genre's most successful groups and start anew. Based in the duranguense hub of Chicago, Palomar and cohorts squandered no meter in collecting a group, recording and cathartic their debut record only a few months later in February of 2005. 100% Autoridad Duranguense hit the Billboard charts with force, landing close to the top of several Latin categories. The album's passing was followed by a well-attended concert hitch, along with a follow-up waiver in November entitled Gracias Rigo. La Autoridad were nominated for a Billboard prize that year thanks to their startling rise to celebrity, renowned by a dominant presence on Mexican radio and months of sold-out concert tours. As is typical in the regional Mexican music universe, the mathematical group hammered the food market over the next few eld with thoroughgoing touring and a new record every sise months. In 2006 the band, only two old age quondam, was honored with the Lo Nuestro Award for Group of the Year. La Autoridad de la Sierra receive kept up their strong chart presence right through 2007's Momentos Inolvidables, which debuted at numeral basketball team on Billboard's regional Mexican charts.





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Myers created Guru voice to cheer up sick pals

Mike Myers created the voice for his new movie�s character Pitka to cheer ill friends up, according to imdb.com.

The funnyman has been working on his The Love Guru character for years and came up with the comic spiritual leader�s Indian voice in an effort to give sick pals a laugh.

He explains, �The Seat Of The Soul was a book I read that I saw on Oprah and I loved it.

�This is a guy who was a green beret and he was also a physicist. When I talked about what I was reading philosophically, this mellifluous voice would emerge.

�My friends loved it and, in fact, would ask me to call them when they were not feeling well in that voice: �You have a cold?�

�This is the universe telling you to be with yourself because the only way out is in.��

In the upcoming movie Pitka attempts to help a Toronto Maple Leafs player overcome personal problems.

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Lil' Wayne set to top one million first week sales in US

Lil Wayne�??s brand new album �??Tha Carter III�?? is set to top one million in sales in the US in its first week of release, after selling 423,000 on its first day of release.

The record has estimated projected sales of 950,000 but Universal Motown president Sylvia Rhone has said it will likely top sales of one million.

If the album does exceed this mark, it will be the first album since 50 Cent topped one million in sales with �??The Massacre�?? in 2005.

Kanye West almost reached one million in first week sales last year with �??Graduation�?? after going head to head with 50 Cent�??s �??Curtis�??.

�??Tha Carter III�?? was finally released on Tuesday (June 10) after the release date was moved three times from October to November and then December 2007

--By our New York staff.
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