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nypost.com - 5/24/2008

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ACTRESS turned auctioneer Sharon Stone raised $10 million for AmFAR at its annual gala in Cannes, but she left almost as many mouths gaping as she did wallets. "Her whole speech was about her," fumed one guest. "What she has done, how her crusade...

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Sharon Stone Classes Up AmFAR Auction
CelebWarship — ... Sharon Stone has a long history of raising money for AIDS research, and while that is very honorable, she also has a long history of making an ass of herself in the process of raising the money. The AmFAR auction at Cannes this week was no exception: when Sharon wasn’t crying over babies, she was making tasteless, racist remarks to the auction attendees. ...

Sharon Stone's Bold 'Karma Tectonics' Theory Infuriates Chinese Quake Victims [Junk Science]
Gawker: defamer — When Sharon Stone wasn't joking about Sean Combs's crack budget last week at the Cannes Film Festival's high-powered amFar benefit, she took a few minutes on the red carpet to play amateur seismologist for the international press. That went about as well as you'd expect when, only seconds into discussing the humanitarian crisis facing China after the May 12 earthquake that killed more than 67,000 people, Stone attributed the tragedy to... karma? The actress's radical theory posits that mistreatment of Tibet and her "good friend" the Dalai ...

Roger Friedman Defends Sharon Stone's Honor Against Page Six
Jossip — ... A scathing Page Six report last week had a spy recounting her jokes about Diddy’s budget for crack and all the sob stories she told about herself. “Her whole speech was about her,” said P6’s source. “What she has done, how her crusade had affected her . . . all with the backdrop of dying kids on the screen behind her. Then, it was [bleep] this, [bleep] that throughout the whole auction. It was vulgar beyond belief … At one point she actually said one of the items from the auction could be hung from ‘your [beep] ring.’” ...