Kylie Minogue picks up £1.5m for playing at Atlantis hotel in Dubai
www.thefirstpost.co.uk - 21st Nov 2008
Kylie Minogue: There was little evidence of a global financial crisis as tycoons and celebrities, among them Robert De Niro and Sir
Richard Branson, flew into Dubai last night for the opening of the £1bn Atlantis hotel.
Kylie Minogue, the Australian singer, provided the entertainment, for which she was paid as much as £1.5m, and the guests were treated to a firework display seven times greater than this year's Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing.
The party, which cost £13.5m, was thrown by Sol Kerzner, the South African billionaire behind the man-made Palm Island, who said that if he had do it all over again he might make a bit more allowance for the fact "we're living through a bit of a tough economic environment".
Other guests included the Duchess of York,
Lily Allen,
Denzel Washington,
Lindsay Lohan,
Charlize Theron and her partner/boyfriend
Stuart Townsend (also pictured).
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