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RFK Jr. Attempts Another ‘Celebrity’ Fundraiser After Event Flop<!-- wp:html --><p>Reuters/Rebecca Noble"</p> <p>Last month, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/robert-f-kennedy-jr">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s</a> Super PAC promoted a 70th birthday fundraiser for the candidate, promising that it would feature celebrity guests Dionne Warwick, Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson, and Andrea Bocelli.</p> <p>But the gathering hit a snag when the A-Listers declared that, no, they had not actually agreed to attend. “I certainly won’t be there,” Warwick scoffed in a post on X. In the end, even <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-01-08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-pulls-out-of-troubled-fundraiser">Kennedy himself</a> skipped the event.</p> <p>The candidate is hoping for redemption with a less prominent cohort of show-biz insiders, including several B-List comedians, at a “A Night of Laughter” emceed by his celebrity wife, Cheryl Hines, on Feb. 21.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-attempts-another-celebrity-fundraiser-again-after-event-flop">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Super PAC promoted a 70th birthday fundraiser for the candidate, promising that it would feature celebrity guests Dionne Warwick, Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson, and Andrea Bocelli.

But the gathering hit a snag when the A-Listers declared that, no, they had not actually agreed to attend. “I certainly won’t be there,” Warwick scoffed in a post on X. In the end, even Kennedy himself skipped the event.

The candidate is hoping for redemption with a less prominent cohort of show-biz insiders, including several B-List comedians, at a “A Night of Laughter” emceed by his celebrity wife, Cheryl Hines, on Feb. 21.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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