Kevin Spacey auctions off lunch date at charity gala in London
June 7th, 2010 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANILondon, June 7 (ANI): Kevin Spacey contributed his bit to help raise 1.7 million pounds for good causes over the weekend - the Usual Suspects star offered up a lunch date for a charity auction in London.
Spacey offered an afternoon of his company to raise funds at the star-studded event, organised in memory of former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev’s late wife Raisa, who died of leukaemia in 1999.
The event witnessed people lapping up diamonds, luxury holidays, artwork by Jeff Koons and a Francis Bacon triptych at an auction, whose proceeds went to the Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation.
“Mikhail Gorbachev and I were so moved by the generosity of our guests who helped us to raise this astounding figure. This will go a long way to help lessen the suffering of so many children and their families - as was Raisa Gorbachev’s aim,” the Daily Express quoted The Foundation’s founder, Evgeny Lebedev, as saying. (ANI)
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