MOUGINS, France (AP) - Penelope Cruz offered the dress off her back to
raise $100,000 for AIDS research. Boris Becker and Monica Seles donated
a tennis lesson. And Liza Minnelli sold a song.

A glitzy benefit dinner Thursday on the sidelines of the Cannes Film
Festival brought in more than $3 million, a record at the annual soiree
for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or amfAR.

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Actress Milla Jovovich offered up $110,000 for Minnelli to perform "But
the World Goes 'Round." Miramax co-founder Bob Weinstein bought the
tennis lesson with Becker and Seles for $100,000. Spanish actress Cruz
sold her strapless pearl-colored Marchesa gown to restaurateur Giuseppe
Cipriani.

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Actors who attended included Salma Hayek, Clive Owen, Benicio Del Toro,
Brittany Murphy, Jessica Alba, Javier Bardem, Ziyi Zhang and twins
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Along with Stone, other chairmen of the
event included designer Kenneth Cole, filmmaker Roman Polanski and
Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein.




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