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JAMIE FOXX THROWS KATRINA RELIEF BENEFIT: Also, actor features Poitier in new video.
*On Sunday night, Jamie Foxx did what he does best and hosted a celeb-packed party-themed benefit for the victims of Hurricane Katrina at The Delano hotel in Miami.
More than $600,000 was raised for the American Red Cross at the event, which included such guests as Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and wife Katina, singer Jon Secada, Timbaland, Detroit Pistons guard Rick Hamilton, Miami police chief John Timoney, Paris Hilton, Scott Storch, Christina Milian, Shaquille O’Neal and his “Miami Vice” co-star, Colin Farrell – who auctioned himself off as a date for the cause.
Hilton also put herself up on the block and accepted bids for a night with her at the grand opening of her Club Paris Miami Beach, on New Year's Eve. Farrell himself bought a Ray Charles portrait signed by Foxx for $16,000. An actor wannabe in the crowd bid $25,000 for a speaking role in “Miami Vice,” then suggested he’d pay $40,000 if allowed to say a word that'll catch the attention of the Motion Picture Academy of America. Foxx obliged.
The seriousness of the event that sparked the auction benefit was not forgotten.
''The hurricane is a heart attack,'' Foxx said when introducing the president of New Orleans' Dillard University, Dr. Marvalene Hughes. He gave her a long embrace and then bid $20,000 for dinner at Nobu with Milian.
*Meanwhile, Foxx's new song "Extravaganza," produced by Mike City and featuring Kanye West, features a video that finds him trying to deal with a night of heavy partying.
"The night of the Oscars or the night of Kanye's Grammys, what I did was partied with the Vanity Fairs and the Meg Ryans and what have you," he tells MTV. "The minute we got a chance to take them tuxes off, we jumped in our sweats and got to the real party where cats was taking my Oscar and taking pictures with it. It was fun. [The video] mirrors that.
“Sidney Poitier is guesting in there," he added of the clip. "Sidney canceled everything. He was like, 'I'm not doing nothing for anybody. I'm in retirement.' I called him humbly like, 'Will you be in this video?' He said, 'I'll do anything for you.' We're trying to do everything — not groundbreaking, but just nifty enough to where you go, 'Oh.' But we're not trying to do this big thing."
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