A Human Rights organisation, Human Rights Watch, has accused Latina singer, Jennifer Lopez of earning in excess of a wooping ten million Dollars singing for leaders of some of the most oppressive regimes in Asia and Europe.
This revelation came after the media outrage that followed her performance at Turkmen dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s birthday celebration on June 29, 2013. After which the singer’s publicist released a statement, saying, “had there been knowledge of human rights issues of any kind, Jennifer would not have attended.”
This statement was not enough to placate Human Rights Watch as they revealed on their website other instances when the Latina singer entertained people like the Turkmen dictator:
In July 2011, Jennifer Lopez collected $1million from corrupt Uzbek industrialist Azam Aslanov to perform at the wedding of his son. One of the guests at the wedding was Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadirov. Prior to this, Lopez was paid $1.4 million to perform at the birthday celebration in Moscow of a businessman engaged in widely reported acts of corruption: Russian oligarch Telman Ismailov.
HRF went on to say that In September 2012, Lopez was booked by the dictatorship of Azerbaijan to perform at a FIFA soccer tournament. The fee was reportedly $2.5 million. While in the capital city of Baku, Lopez’s representatives met with the dictator’s wife and began negotiating a contract to put together a music festival in Azerbaijan in partnership with Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency. The event was initially planned for September 2013 but has been rescheduled to 2014.
In October 2012, Lopez was reported to have travelled to Belarus, the only dictatorship in Europe, where she performed a leg of her world tour. Details of her stay in Minsk and her engagements are not public record, and the Lopez team has ignored requests for comment on the matter.
Furthermore, in November 2012, Lopez traveled to Russia, where she was scheduled to sing happy birthday to Alexander Yolkin, a Russian bureaucrat accused of corruption. Yolkin was arrested the day before Lopez’s performance at his birthday party. Russian media claim that the reported $2 million paid to Lopez was the product of kickbacks and bribery schemes. It is not known if Lopez returned the fee.
The Human Rights Organisation’s call on Ms Lopez to donate the proceeds to Charity has not received a response yet.
- See more at: http://www.urnaija.com/j-lo-earns-10million-singing-for-crooks-dictators/#sthash.5fXkgmtq.dpuf
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Wow!!!!!!Jenifer Lopez Earns $10million Singing For Crooks And Dictators
A Human Rights organisation, Human Rights Watch, has accused Latina singer, Jennifer Lopez of earning in excess of a wooping ten million Dollars singing for leaders of some of the most oppressive regimes in Asia and Europe.
This revelation came after the media outrage that followed her performance at Turkmen dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s birthday celebration on June 29, 2013. After which the singer’s publicist released a statement, saying, “had there been knowledge of human rights issues of any kind, Jennifer would not have attended.”
This statement was not enough to placate Human Rights Watch as they revealed on their website other instances when the Latina singer entertained people like the Turkmen dictator:
In July 2011, Jennifer Lopez collected $1million from corrupt Uzbek industrialist Azam Aslanov to perform at the wedding of his son. One of the guests at the wedding was Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadirov. Prior to this, Lopez was paid $1.4 million to perform at the birthday celebration in Moscow of a businessman engaged in widely reported acts of corruption: Russian oligarch Telman Ismailov.
HRF went on to say that In September 2012, Lopez was booked by the dictatorship of Azerbaijan to perform at a FIFA soccer tournament. The fee was reportedly $2.5 million. While in the capital city of Baku, Lopez’s representatives met with the dictator’s wife and began negotiating a contract to put together a music festival in Azerbaijan in partnership with Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency. The event was initially planned for September 2013 but has been rescheduled to 2014.
In October 2012, Lopez was reported to have travelled to Belarus, the only dictatorship in Europe, where she performed a leg of her world tour. Details of her stay in Minsk and her engagements are not public record, and the Lopez team has ignored requests for comment on the matter.
Furthermore, in November 2012, Lopez traveled to Russia, where she was scheduled to sing happy birthday to Alexander Yolkin, a Russian bureaucrat accused of corruption. Yolkin was arrested the day before Lopez’s performance at his birthday party. Russian media claim that the reported $2 million paid to Lopez was the product of kickbacks and bribery schemes. It is not known if Lopez returned the fee.
The Human Rights Organisation’s call on Ms Lopez to donate the proceeds to Charity has not received a response yet.
- See more at: http://www.urnaija.com/j-lo-earns-10million-singing-for-crooks-dictators/#sthash.5fXkgmtq.dpuf
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