Madonna raises 11 million dollars for Malawi charity
Madonna has raised 11 million dollars from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi foundation, the daily Rio O Dia reported Monday.
Madonna visited Brazil to stroke the country’s wealthy into giving, and notably won an unspecified pledge from the country’s richest man, mining magnate Ike Batista, who sits atop a fortune estimated at 7.5 billion dollars.
From the Agence France Presse.