Usher Joins Ranks Of Celebs Donating Money Received For Ghadafi Performances

Usher buckled to the pressure and issued an extremely suspect statement about that New Year’s Eve 2009 performance for Ghadafi’s peoples.

R&B superstar Usher announced Friday (March 4) that he was donating to various charities proceeds from appearing at a private event at St. Barts linked to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

“I am sincerely troubled to learn about the circumstances surrounding the Nikki Beach St. Bart’s event that took place on New Year’s Eve 2009,” Usher said of the concert, at which he appeared alongside Beyoncé but did not perform. “I will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations.”

Usher has already begun the process, having made a donation to Amnesty International, the AP reports. The exact size of the donation is not known.

The New Year’s Eve gig was reportedly for Moammar’s fourth son Muastassim, who an unnamed music industry source told MTV News has a history of throwing lavish parties “jammed” with supermodels.

Why are we calling this statement suspect? Anything with “various charities” and an “unknown” donation size makes us wonder a) whether the check was actually cut and b) whether or not all of the money was in fact given away.

But maybe that’s just us.

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