She was afraid that she or her kids could contract lead poisoning.
Posted on 01/07/2005 1:58:31 PM PST by fidelio
Edited on 01/07/2005 3:41:35 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
CHARITY WORLD'S CREEPY SIDE
By Richard Johnson
Tue Dec 14, 2:53 AM ET
FORMER fund-raiser Aaron Tonken drops the dime on Hollywood's greediest celebs in a blistering new book.
"King of Cons: Exposing the Dirty Rotten Secrets of the Washington Elite and Hollywood Celebrities" (Thomas Nelson) is a memoir by Tonken, best known as the organizer of a gala in Bill Clinton's honor attended by John Travolta, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher and others.
High school dropout Tonken conned millions out of rich nobodies who paid through the nose to rub elbows with stars and politicos at charity events. But rather than use the money for charity, Tonken would use it just to pay the stars to show up.
When Tonken got involved in politics, raising cash for the DNC and Bill and Hillary Clinton, he quickly fell afoul of campaign finance laws, which on top of his charity shenanigans landed him a five-year jail sentence for fraud. He's still in jail.
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However, the "fund raising gala", as it often is called, was for her Senate run.
She was afraid that she or her kids could contract lead poisoning.
The human stain that is the Clintons continues to spread.
FORMER fund-raiser Aaron Tonken drops the dime on Hollywood's greediest celebs in a blistering new book.
* One of his first jobs in Hollywood was as a houseboy at the rundown mansion of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, "seemed more like a queen," Tonken writes. Anhalt told Tonken his German shepherd's favorite pastime was to "kill" Jewish people.
* Tonken calls Joan Collins the "greediest, most irresponsible person in Hollywood." Natalie Cole, who once demanded $75,000 in cash to perform a single song, was a close second.
* Suzanne Sommers once threatened to trash him with a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter if he didn't cough up a bunch of free jewelry and airline tickets.
* Liza Minnelli once nearly ruined a Recording Artists Against Drunk Driving event by showing up totally wasted.
* When Tonken briefly managed Roseanne Barr, whom he calls "a pig with rabies," she stiffed him for over $250,000.
* Civil rights icon Rosa Parks demanded payment and a Gulfstream IV jet to attend the Clinton toast. Tonken relates, "This led David Rosen, national finance director for Hillary Clinton's senate campaign, to joke that Parks 'came a long way, from the back of a bus to a G-4.' "
When Tonken said the best he could do was first-class commercial, Parks' assistant snapped, "What about Air Force One?"
I sorta like the pic (gif) of the Bitch with the snake tongue fluttering out of her mouth.
If you read that article supposedly written by Chelsea right after 9/11 you will see that literacy is not high in the family of grifters.
There had been some talk that David Rosen might become a candidate for DNC Chairman.
Guess that might have to wait a while now, huh?
Posted big time on Drudge site so hopefully it will at leAST receive some weekend exposure on Fox
Anyone have links to old FR threads on this? I know I remember reading FR threads about this event, and the campaign finance reporting issues.
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As you are personally aware, in May, 2000, I was induced by your National Campaign Finance Director, David Rosen, your friend Jim Levin and your volunteer Hollywood talent coordinator and fundraiser, Aaron Tonken, to become the largest individual contributor to your Senatorial campaign in an effort to begin building a closer relationship with your husband in anticipation of his departure from public service to the private sector.As you recall, I hosted a private fundraising luncheon for you at Spago, and a fund raising tea at Mrs. Gershman’s Beverly Hills Estate on June 9, 2000, and paid certain expenses in connection with that event in addition to making a commitment to contribute $150,000 in stock to your campaign. I subsequently committed to produce and underwrite the largest fundraiser of your campaign, which was also a Hollywood farewell tribute to the President, on August 12, 2000, at the Brentwood estate of our mutual friend Ken Roberts. Rather than make an additional contribution to your campaign, I was induced to underwrite all the expenses of the reception, concert and private dinner so that David Rosen could galvanize your faltering fundraising momentum and generate much needed “hard money” contributions net of any and all expenses. In good faith I fulfilled that commitment, even as the expenses skyrocketed from a projected $500,000 to well over $2 million!
No expense was spared to produce a poignant and historic evening when the luminaries of the entertainment industry shared their love and appreciation for the contributions made by the President and yourself during the previous eight years of the Clinton Administration. As you requested, I hired your friend Gary Smith to produce the concert part of the event, which he did superbly through his lend out company Black Ink Productions. Although Gary’s unconscionable fee of $850,000 for the concert was reduced at my request by $50,000 due to your personal intervention, you should know that Gary subsequently tacked on another $75,000 for his personal production fee which I was not made aware of until the day before the event. Further, Gary demonstrated the most egregious unprofessionalism in the way he sabotaged my script for Stan Lee’s introduction and the activities of his film crews that were charged with documenting the event. To add insult to injury, he fabricated additional expenses that Ken Roberts chastised him for, for which he held hostage the tapes of the event for three months. In addition, $20,000 is unaccounted for as a final withdrawal that is not documented from the segregated event bank account I am attaching a statement for.
He may not rat out the lintons, but according to News4 in NYC the wonderful Marc and Denise Rich are being linked to the scandal. There's a pair who, I think, would rat out their own family to save themselves.
I think it's going to take some new details for it to survive past this weekend. Remember how CBS thought they could wait out the document scandal over that first weekend?
Dont worry, the GOP has forgotten the phrase RULE OF LAW since GWB was first nominated.
Nothing will be done.
Still true; knowing the clintons carries real risk.
I think you may be much more on target than off....
America will never be rid of the Clintons until they both have left this world. But, it would sure be nice if we could see a little justice done this side of eternity for them!
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