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Organizers of the concert, designed to raise awareness of crushing poverty in Africa, will show their gratitude to dozens of celebrities with a Hugo Boss duffel bag chock-full of high-fashion trinkets and designer drinks, valued at roughly $3,000.
In addition, the performers giving 15 minutes of stage time will be able to personalize their bags with big-ticket items including: Hugo Boss suits, valued between $800 and $1,000 each; XM satellite radios and subscriptions, $500; Seven jeans, $180 for men, $150 for women; Gibson guitars, $2,000; Borgata terry-cloth robes, $100; Boyd’s ties, $125; 76ers garment bags and T-shirts, $330; Mitchell & Ness sweat suits, $330; and Bertolucci watches, valued between $1,500 and $6,000.
All told, a celebrity could walk away with a bag of gifts worth as much as $12,000.
The booty will be available for performers in a “celebrity gifting lounge” that the local public-relations firm Cashman & Associates will set up to look like a boutique.
Inside, celebrities will relax on ottomans and plush couches. Between acts, they will be treated to soft pretzels, Lee’s Gourmet ice cream, Michelob beer, Perrier water, and Liquid Ice, rapper-actor Ice-T’s new energy drink.


Comment by Dave Wissing of the Hedgehog report
If you are going to hold a concert that supposedly is to help the poor in Africa and we are supposed to be impressed by the artists who give their time, doesn’t it sort of hurt the cause when you are giving the same artists $12,000 in gifts just to appear? Here’s a thought: instead of giving the money to these artists, who in nearly every case, do not need to be given these gift since they could easily afford to purchase them themselves, how about taking that money and giving it to some charity fund who is already doing work in Africa. To me, the gifts just prove to me that this concert was more pure symbolism and a publicity stunt to make the artists look like they care about poverty in Africa

couldn't have said it better myself, even though i tried