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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zulficar" data-source="post: 9545895" data-attributes="member: 45507">Nelly Furtado: Take it back<img src="http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/nelly-furtado-1.769946!image/1903157097.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_475/1903157097.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Nelly Furtado to give away $1 million Gaddafi feeCanadian pop star Nelly Furtado, who says she was paid $1 million (Dh3.67 million) to perform for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family at a hotel in Italy in 2007, is donating the money to charity.According to the New York Times, the Gaddafi clan has been spending as lavishly on entertainers as they have on weapons in recent years.Beyoncé and Usher reportedly performed for Gaddafi's son Muatassim at this year's New Year eve party on the Caribbean island of St. Barts.A year earlier, Seif Al Islam Al Gaddafi, another Gaddafi son, also paid Mariah Carey $1 million to sing just four songs at the New Year bash, the paper said last week.Though most pop stars have kept quiet about taking huge sums of money from the embattled Libyan leader, Furtado on Monday admitted on her Twitter that she pocketed $1 million for entertaining the Gaddafi family in 2007."In 2007, I was paid $1 million by the [Gaddafi] clan to play a 45-minute show for guests at a hotel in Italy," she said in her tweet message. "I am going to donate this [money]."A representative of Universal Music, Furtado's label, confirmed the tweet on Monday, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).</blockquote>

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