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Main >> News Listing >> September 2005 >> Article ID 8662
 Celebrity Singers Headline Billionaire's Wedding | Type: Internet Article |
| | Celebrity Singers Headline Billionaire's Wedding | Sep 06, 2005 | by Chris Noon
Summary:
Russian billionaire banker Andrei Melnichenko has gone a few better--he's reportedly paid Christina Aguilera $3.6 million to perform three songs at the celebration of his nuptials to the former Miss Yugoslavia, Aleksandra Kokotovic.
Though it's as yet unconfirmed whether La Aguilera humorously extemporized her performance with a few nods to Russian culture in her lyrics--Genie In A Vodka Bottle, perchance?--she was joined onstage by Whitney Houston, Julio Iglesias and his son Enrique.
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The Wedding Singers: Although plenty of warblers relive with a shudder the gloomy days when they performed at weddings, bar mitzvahs, luncheons, meetings, parties, holiday events and anything that would warrant musical entertainment, the lure of big bucks will wheedle the haughtiest artiste into donning the costume jewelry.
At the recent wedding of billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's daughter Vanisha, around 1,000 guests enjoyed a week of lavish pageantry in Paris, which culminated in a half-hour performance from Lilliputian pop princess Kylie Minogue, who was reportedly paid $520,000 for her work.
Russian billionaire banker Andrei Melnichenko has gone a few better--he's reportedly paid Christina Aguilera $3.6 million to perform three songs at the celebration of his nuptials to the former Miss Yugoslavia, Aleksandra Kokotovic.
Though it's as yet unconfirmed whether La Aguilera humorously extemporized her performance with a few nods to Russian culture in her lyrics--Genie In A Vodka Bottle, perchance?--she was joined onstage by Whitney Houston, Julio Iglesias and his son Enrique.
Melnichenko founded MDM Bank, which later handled the accounts of oil tycoon Roman Abramovich and other businessmen then favored by the Kremlin. In 2000, after a failed attempt to sign up the Ministry of Atomic Energy as a client, Melnichenko teamed up with metals trader Sergei Popov and began accumulating an industrial empire that now includes chemicals, coal mines, steel mills and a 6% stake in Russia's electric monopoly. |
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