*Mother Nature has no respect for people, salaries, or celebrity status.
Alicia Keys and her hubby Swizz Beatz were among New York’s hurricane/storm celebrity victims.
The couple left their $17 million penthouse in lower Manhattan after the power went out and water stopped flowing in the building Monday night; and crashed at her mother Teresa’s apartment.
“I was fortunate because my mother’s place didn’t lose power so we were able to take shelter with her,” she said. “Losing power was interesting, especially when you have to entertain a little boy,” she said referring to her two-year-old son Egypt. “But it was cool – he’s so imaginative so it all worked out.”
Sandy wreaked havoc across the city and displaced thousands. So the singer postponed her annual Black Ball to instead focus on reaching out to those who were less fortunate than herself after the storm.
In the future, however, she’d like to be more prepared for a disaster of this magnitude.
“I think I learned that I’m not nearly as prepared as I need to be,” she said. “God forbid there’s anything else coming – but if it did, I want to be more prepared about how to handle it and be able to ride it out.”
By the way, a few hours before the power returned to her neighborhood, Keys appeared on a special episode of Jimmy Kimmel taped in Brooklyn, where she recorded a PSA called “Helping Parents to Rock” for parents who want to maintain their rockstar status.
Watch it:
This is dumb.
Do you really think people care if Alicia Keys was chased from her penthouse when peoploe were losing their homes. She can replace almost anything she has but all those people that lost everything cannot replace all those years they lived in their homes. As they say Money Talks
Like this article stated, it doesn’t matter how much money you have when a disaster strikes, it doesn’t pick and choose. I feel bad for all the people who lost their homes and things that can’t be replaced but just because Alicia can replace her things, doesn’t mean they didn’t mean just as much to her. Some things can never be replaced. And yes, I care that she lost some of her things and was chased from her home also. Just because someone is wealthy is no reason not to care. That storm could have just as easily destroyed a penthouse as someone’s home, not to mention lives. So no, in that case, no, money does not talk.
so, then I’ll say it bbbooooo-hhhoooo, nobody gives a dam about a-k!!! she has enough loose change in her couch to replace her “things” . . homes, lives, communities have been lost !! she was shooed away from her lux’ digs and your SAD for her? . . . . .are you sad that I almost lost my enbrel medication for my R/A because my refrigerator got warm?