Rihanna gets $500,000 for new year’s performance
Posted by Media Outrage on January 3, 2008
Rihanna performed in Russia for New Year’s and was very well compensated for her time. She was paid $500,000 for her performance. That’s a nice amount for a 40 minute performance.
“RusAl head Oleg Deripaska treated his colleagues and friends not to a Tanzanian goat apiece, but to the nearest thing for an oligarch: a New Year concert whose star, Rihanna, only charged $500,000. George Michael, who sang for Vladimir Potanin last year for a reported $3.3 million, wouldn’t even get out of a Ritz-Carlton featherbed for that. Still, she’ll learn. As Komsomolskaya Pravda put it, “she’s a young singer, so she charges practically nothing.” Rihanna insisted on the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton for her six-hour stay, It comes with an “oversized dressing room”
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