Madonna to contribute to the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation dinner gala
The Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Annual Gala Dinner will take place at Hampton Court Palace on Saturday, and Madonna‘s name popped out in the press today as one of the organizers of the event, together with the likes of Lady Thatcher and Viscountess Rothermere, wife of Viscount Rothermere, Chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust..
In an article on the Mail on Sunday about Sir Elton John missing this year’s Festival de Cannes for being busy preparing the upcoming £1,000-a-head gala dinner for the foundation named in honour of President Mikhail Gorbachev’s late wife, joint host Evgeny Lebedev, whose family co-own one of Russia’s few remaining independent newspapers and who will be underwriting the event, as been quoted saying:
“Getting Elton and the Scissor Sisters wasn’t easy but we managed it. We want everyone up and dancing. Madonna has also been great. She is on the committee because she wants to help sick children in Russia.”
The Raisa Gorbachev Foundation was set up by Mr Gorbachev after his wife died of cancer in 1999. All proceeds will go to the Raisa Gorbachev Centre of Children’s Haematology and Transplantology in St Petersburg.
From dailymail.co.uk.