Now, Usher will donate Gaddafi money to charity

Updated on: 09 March,2011 07:29 AM IST |
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Follows list of stars trying to distance themselves from Libyan leader

Follows list of stars trying to distance themselves from Libyan leader

Since the outbreak of violence against protesters in Libya last month, stars who performed for the country's dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, and his family have donated their fees to charity in an effort to distance themselves from the controversy.

Usher follows in the footsteps of Nelly Furtado, Beyonce and Mariah Carey

Through his rep, Usher says he "will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations."

Carey says she's embarrassed to have ever been a part of a celebration for the Gadhafis, and Beyonce says she had already donated her payment to Haitian earthquake relief last year.

Canadian singer Furtado was the catalyst for the donations after tweeting her plan to donate the $1 million she received from the Gadhafi family. "In 2007, I received $1 million from the Qaddafi clan to perform a 45 min.

Show for guests at a hotel in Italy. I am going to donate the $," she wrote on February 28.

Rebels attacked

Forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi hammered rebels with rocket barrages and airstrikes yesterday, trying to check their advance out of the opposition-held east of Libya toward the capital Tripoli.
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At least 26 were wounded, some of them seriously.

On another front, government forces were reportedly battering down resistance in the closest rebel-held city to Zawiya, Tripoli.

A government official claimed Gaddafi loyalists had recaptured the city, but some residents reported that rebels still held the city's main square. The city was sealed off.

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