New Yotk - (Ass Mess): An estimated $100 million profit was made from the weekend's Live Earth concerts around the globe. But anybody thinking this might have been donated to noble good causes such as the Tsunami Relief Fund or the victims of Hurricane Katrina had better think again.
Philanthropy didn't get a look-in, it was all a commerciao exercise.
Officially there were no paper profits because all the musical acts had their performance fees and costs.
For instance, hiring private planes to get to the gigs, hotel accommodation, performance-related expenses etc.
And the organisers had a whacking great big electricity bills to pay for staging the light shows, as well as venue hire costs, security, policing and publicity.
TV and internet syndication rights more than paid for organisers' front-end costs and left in excess of £100 million to be allocated "to the genius who invented eco-warriorship in the first place",
So what will Al Gore do with his new-found fortune?
And will it be enough to pay for years and years of rehab treatment that the little Gorelet, Al Gore the Third, is rumored to need after his recent marijuana and prescription drug bust in California?
Gore's spokesman has said that his boss "hasn't made a penny' from this weeknd's awareness-raising events.
But someone has ammassed a massive bung from the 7/7/7 gigs that were pormoted as a charitable event with no charities involved in the financial process.
Bon Geldof is 69.
