Some of the biggest stars in the French Rivera for the Cannes Film Festival made appearances at the 30th annual amfAR gala to raise money for AIDS research. Demi Moore, whose film “_The Substanc_e” was caused a stir at Cannes, hosted this year’s gala, a role launched by Elizabeth Taylor in 1993. The red carpet at the exclusive Hôtel du Cap, Eden Roc, was awash with models, actors, singers and fashion designers as well as plenty of festival movers and shakers, who paid thousands of euros for a table at the hottest event in town.
Michelle Yeoh, Heidi Klum, Kelly Rowland, Andie MacDowell, Diane Kruger, Colman Domingo, Michelle Rodriguez, Winnie Harlow, Robin Thicke, Diplo, Paris Jackson, Petra Nemcova, Karolina Kurkova, Natasha Poly and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, all attended the fundraiser. Rowland addressed her Cannes controversy from earlier in the week where she appeared to have an altercation with security on the red carpet. “The woman knows what happened.
I know what happened. And, I have a boundary, and I stand by those boundaries, and that is it. And there were other women that attended that carpet who did not quite look like me, and they didn’t get scolded, or pushed off or told to get off,” Rowland told The Associated Press.
“And, I stood my ground and she felt like she had to stand hers but I stood my ground and that was it.” As always the night began with champagne and cocktails under the stars. The sweeping hotel walkway was transformed i.
