Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com reports Gucci is throwing an all-star fundraiser for Madonna’s controversial charity Raising Malawi on February 6th. GUCCI’s ‘A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and UNICEF’ will feature co-hosts Sarah Jessica Parker and Salma Hayek, as well as the Material Girl. Friedman claims in conversations with people from Gucci and UNICEF that neither are aware “that Raising Malawi is merely a front for Philip Berg’s Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles”, or that “Raising Malawi is also still not a registered charity.”
“Something clearly isn’t kosher here,” Friedman opined. “Are we really ready for little Malawian children wearing $26 red strings on their wrists and drinking bottled Kabbalah water, being read bedtime stories written by Madonna and practicing the Zohar? And wearing Gucci loafers as they trick or treat for UNICEF? Or Kabbalah? I suppose we should be.” Read more.