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Ciara poses for photographers upon accomplishment astatine the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS payment astatine the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the 78th Cannes planetary movie festival, Cap d'Antibes, confederate France, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
ANTIBES – Artwork by Adrien Brody and James Franco and a accidental to beryllium courtside astatine a Knicks crippled with manager Spike Lee were among the starry offerings astatine the annual amfAR Gala to rise wealth for AIDS research.
Held astatine the celebrated Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc successful Antibes connected Thursday, the evening attracted scores of celebrities successful the country for the Cannes Film Festival. Guests included Brody, Lee, Colman Domingo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, and Heidi Klum.
This year’s apical items for merchantability included a Dodge Charger that featured successful “Fast X,” sold disconnected by Rodriguez, raising 475,000 euros ($536,843). There were besides immoderate Chopard pear shaped yellowish diamond earrings that reached 400,000 ($452,005) euros successful the bidding.
During the repast guests were besides entertained with philharmonic performances from Ciara, who opened the night, Adam Lambert and headlining the meal with Duran Duran. Guest shimmied from their tables to the beforehand of the country to basal successful beforehand of the signifier and sing on to hits similar “Notorious” and “View to a Kill” (which wouldn't beryllium the lone James Bond notation of the night).
The merchantability included artwork from Brody — sold for 375,000 euros ($423,755) with luncheon with the prima thrown successful — and Franco — (sold for 325,000 euros ($367,254) besides with a luncheon offered with the winning bid. Another item was a May 2025 George Condo coating that raised 1.15 cardinal euros ($1.26 million).
Lee came to the stage and offered a astonishment lot, a walk-on portion successful his adjacent movie. Part of the mode done the bidding helium added tickets to beryllium adjacent to him courtside astatine a New York Nicks crippled adjacent season, driving the terms up to 400,000 euros ($452,005).
The fashion show is simply a regular diagnostic of the auction curated by Carine Roitfeld, this twelvemonth was Bond-inspired and saw 27 models crook the mediate of the dinning country into a catwalk arsenic they paraded done the country waving astatine guests they recognized and posing for photos connected route. The postulation made 450,000 euros ($508,505) for the charity, auctioned disconnected arsenic 1 implicit lot.
The Foundation for AIDS Research, is simply a nonprofit enactment dedicated to the enactment of AIDS research, HIV prevention, attraction education, and advocacy. Since 1985, amfAR has raised astir $950 cardinal (841 cardinal euros) successful enactment of its programs and has awarded much than 3,800 grants to probe teams worldwide.
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Louise Dixon has covered the amfAR gala for much than a decade. Among astir memorable items she’s seen sold astatine auction are a crippled of shot with David Beckham and his friends, a backstage meal show from Andrea Bocelli astatine his household location and luncheon with Robert De Niro that combined person raised much than 2 cardinal euros.
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