Penelope Cruz Raises $333,000 For Haiti By Auctioning Off Couture Gowns
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With the help of some worn Haute Couture red carpet gowns, Penelope Cruz and fine jewelry maker Chopard raised $333,000 to aid in Haiti relief Wednesday in Cannes, France.
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Cruz, 35, and Chopard organized the auction together to help raise funds for actor/director Sean Penn's Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO). Penn created the organization earlier this year immediately following the Haiti earthquake to provide much needed aid for the ravaged country.
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Celebrities that donated their gowns included Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Diane Kruger, Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Demi Moore, Gisele Bundchen, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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One bidder paid 17,000 euros (about $21,000) for the first-ever gown from Gucci Première (the brand's new couture label) that Salma Hayek Pinault wore last week at the screening of Robin Hood during the Cannes Film Festival.
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9Great for her, I am sure she didn't pay anything to wear them-shepromotes the designer(s) she wears t red carpet events. Where is the money in Haiti now? All tied up-and our oin our own country are living on the streets without jobs-were's the star power to tae care of are own? Especially when it has been already documented the Red Cross still has millions tied up and isn't getting relief items??
so with all the donations and charities for Haiti, you'd think they'd be doing a lot better...noooooo they haven't given one penny to Haiti beacuse they don't trust their government...so why not actually helping the people who live there, there is no need to have to give any money to the government. Haiti SHOULD be back on their feet by now, why aren't they????? hmmmmm
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That's awesome!! I love her even more now. :) I love to read stories like this on US. Not ones about Kim Kardashian. lol.
Actually she is Spanish, not Mexican but your point is correct: there are so many worthy causes out there and we should celebrate the fact that she chose to raise money for one of them. I am quite disgusted by Pam who said "OUR country" should be helped first. First of all, what a xenophobic attitude and secondly, America is a far, far wealthier country than Haiti with an infrastructure much better equipped to dealing with a crisis. Why the negative responses to a good deed?
to themysterymachine, I HAVE given money for the Nashville Floods, thank you very much. Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions. Okay, so maybe it was shortsighted, but they could have split the money in some way, donate a little here, a little there. That way everyone gets helped.
love this woman. and anything anyone can do for any crisis is awesome. for pam, you know, there are a million screwed up things happening in the world right now. some sexual abuse survivor is thinking "she could have given that money to incest victims!" people still without homes in new orleans could say, "what about katrina"? your nitpicking about someone doing a good deed is pretty shortsighted and silly. also, "our country" is not the country penelope comes from. she is mexican. so sorry if she isn't aware of the damage from the floods. did you give any money when katrina happened? i did. have you given money for the nashville floods? somehow i think i know the answer. no good deed goes unpunished.
She couldn't have raised money for the flood in Nashville?? I think is a crisis happens here, we should worry about our own country first, then go back to supporting another.
That's great, I am so happy to hear that! And, as far as the good news I read, good, the bad news, not so good!