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Gaddafi pays for Beyoncé to perform on NYE
I guess, much like athletes, when anyone says it’s not about the money, you can guarantee that it is about the money. At least I would imagine that was Beyoncé’s thinking when she took an undisclosed sum from the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to play a New Year’s Eve bash at the Nikki Beach club on St. Barts.
Whoa, oh, oh … uh, oh oh …
According to the New York Post:
Beyoncé performed five songs in a sexy black leotard at the Nikki Beach club on St. Barts in front of a crowd that included her husband Jay-Z, Usher and Lindsay Lohan.We couldn’t confirm how much Beyoncé was paid for the gig, but last year, Mariah Carey reportedly pocketed $1 million for performing at Nikki Beach.
Some vacationers on the island were aghast. DJ Sam Young tweeted: “Jigga [Jay-Z], Beyonce & Usher were @ Nikki Beach performing for Khadafy family, WTF?”
Just a week earlier, on Christmas Day, Hannibal, 33 — also known as Moutassim — allegedly attacked his wife, Aline Skaf, in his suite at Claridge’s in London. Three of his security staff were arrested for obstructing police. Skaf was reportedly hospitalized with a broken nose while Hannibal was whisked away in a diplomatic car.
In July 2008, he and his then-pregnant wife were arrested on charges of beating their servants in a Geneva hotel. They denied the charges, which were dropped after the servants received compensation.
Hannibal was also arrested in 2005 in a Paris hotel for allegedly punching Skaf. He then allegedly brandished a 9mm handgun and went on a furniture-smashing rampage in his hotel suite. No charges were brought.
Of course, maybe we’re just getting ahead of ourselves and there is nothing too scandalous going on here. After all, the U.S. did restore diplomatic relations with Libya in 2006 and last summer, the Daily Telegraph in the UK wrote, “In his four decades as Libya’s ‘Brother Leader’, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has gone from being the epitome of revolutionary chic to an eccentric statesman with entirely benign relations with the West.”
Read the full mention from NYPOST.COM here.
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