Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva had paid €190,000…

Uznews.net – The popular French website rue89.com has reported that Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s second daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva had paid €190,000 to movie star Monica Bellucci for four hours at a ball she organised in Paris last April.

The website’s article has so far been read by over 46,000 people and almost 150 people have left their comments on it.

French journalists investigated and found out about the fee the Uzbekistan-2020 charity foundation, headed by Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to UNESCO Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, had paid Bellucci, even though the contract signed on this banned the star from talking to the press about this dinner.

The article compared this sum with the €11,000 fee Catherine Deneuve received for advertising Dior jewelleries on the TF-1 television channel. Lola Karimova-Tillayeva’s

Bellucci, Karimova-Tillyaeva and Belgian princess

dinner was also attended by Massimo Gargia, Emmanuelle Béart, Bernadette Chirac, Alain Delon and French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s brother Guillaume.

The article noted that Isabel Adjani had turned down Lola’s invitation.

The publication has drawn great attention and readers are now discussing how Western celebrities can earn money from Uzbek benefactors.

One reader suggested that had Monica Bellucci worked this way for 24 hours a day she would have earned €416m in a year. Another reader suggested that Monica should spit to

Monica Belucci

the dictator’s face and give the money to charity. He must be unaware who exactly is paying for the entertainment of the Uzbek president’s daughter.

With fees paid to A-list stars and the money paid to rent the City Museum of Modern Art in the centre of Paris, one can only imagine how much this event cost to the Uzbek people. Nor is it clear who it benefited.

Karimova-Tillyaeva’s site says that the Uzbekistan-2020 foundation aims to hold a cultural and intellectual exchange between Uzbekistan and West Europe and solve humanitarian problems, such as education for children in Uzbekistan. These aims should be solved by 2020, which explains the foundation’s name.