Billionaire Revives 'Dead' Celebs With Huge Donation

By PopEater Staff Posted Dec 7th 2010 08:30AM

On Monday morning, the week-old Keep a Child Alive campaign had raised around a third of its $1 million goal to support families affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa, according to a tally on its donations website. By the end of the day they hit a cool mil. How? Thanks to a huge donation of $500,000 from billionaire pharmaceutical exec Stewart Rahr, all the celebs -- including organizer Alicia Keys and Kim Kardashian -- can again hit up their social media accounts, which they all agreed to abandon until the money was raised.

"I am back from the dead!" Kardashian announced Monday evening. "Thank you all so much for your donations and contributions! I have missed u all so much!!!"

Keys announced Monday that the charity reached its $1 million fund-raising goal in honor of last week's World AIDS Day. She made sure to give Rahr a major shout-out for stepping up to the plate.

"From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of the fans, friends and artists who joined this cause," said Keys. "I'm incredibly inspired by all of the donations that have been made to help us achieve our goal and so humbled by the outpour of support from everyone. Stewart Rahr has been a steadfast advocate of KCA and his generosity this time around is simply incredible."

A slew of celebrities -- including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and Ryan Seacrest -- signed off Twitter and Facebook last Wednesday and asked their fans to donate to the charity. But after day one of the campaign, the charity had raised about $160,000.

According to New York Post sources, organizers expected to reach the donation goal within a week. But after it became clear it was going to take much longer, participating celebs became frustrated, and at least one of them -- here's looking at you, Usher -- began Tweeting on Sunday.

"It's the worst mismanagement of star power I've ever seen in my life," said a source close to the program.

According to Post sources, technical problems and an overestimation of the stars' influence also played a role in slow fund-raising receipts. Regardless, the money has been raised and the celebs have been revived.

Keep a Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving treatment, care and support services to children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.

Tags: Keep a Child Alive, Stewart Rahr

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Tuesday 07 December

By GV

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The funny part of all this is that no one cared whether these people twittered or, not. Must be quite a blow to their egos.
Sadly, people with HIV/AIDS suffered their arrogance in thinking anyone would notice.
Those silly people should have opened their own wallets and just donated!

Thursday 26 May

By Alibobbu

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the internet is so yesterday.

By Veronica

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Well thank goodness. Now the world can go back to knowing what Kim Kardashian is doing every minute of the day. Good cause, stupid, egotistical celebs.

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By catzs

They should have just stayed "dead" for that matter. I've never read their stupid tweets or facebook to begin with. Then they could have willed their inheritance to the cause.

By themeeker

Agreed. Some of these brain dead morons seriously overestimated their appeal.

By jeffrey lebowski

rats...i was kinda hopin' kim would remain dead forever and spare us all this tabloid crap every freakin day...(by the way, if you missed the Sat Night Live rip on the Karkrashians, you missed one of the greatest moments in the history of television, and the beginning of the end of the Karkrashian franchise)

By Anneka

CPR anyone? Honestly, each of the "deceased" celebs should have just donated a portion towards their revival instead of this pathetic bailout. Makes them look cheap and petty in a season known for generous giving.

By JEB BUCKINGHAM

I don't care much for Kim Kardashian, but that photo of her lying "dead" in a coffin gives me the willies!

By YellowRose3218

catzs,,,Good idea !!! I bet not one of the rich and famous ever thought of doing that. That would be a great thing for them all to do, but we all know it will never happen.
Thats exactly how the rich stay rich,, they sit on their money so tightly. They all know that times are very tough for everyone now. But its funny how they still expect use working folks to dig deep, when we are barely able to keep our selves a home to live in.

Thursday 09 December

By jawssyjabber

I thought this was the worse fund raising promotion EVER. Not only did entertainers portray they were dead they kept saying it. Everywhere you turned "such and such is dead" such and such is dead. That is bad for the universe. Shouting out a person is DEAD when they are alive and kicking. I would never get in a casket or want anyone to speak that I am DEAD when I am indeed Alive. Speaking things into existence can work positively and negatively. Please don't ever do this one again. There should have been a better way for raising funds.

By Stephanie

This is rediculous.. Why would these multi-millionaire stars stop "tweeting" which, c'mon who cares anyway, in order to make their fans donate money.. They were raising only one-million dollars. If each of those celebs donated even a small portion, it wouldn't even have put a dent in their pockets, yet they are trying to bribe the average joe who can't afford large donations, especially in this economy to do what their egotistical, arrogant, cheap selves aren't willing to do.. It's a shame.

By andy

ryan is not a star and has no fans. he is an announcer .he should work for a gay rights group where he belongs.

By earl taylor

Wrong again Andy about Ryan. Got one of the most beautiful girl friends around....

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