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The 25th annual gala amFAR Cannes charity event, Cinema Against AIDS, took place even in the shadow of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall — the man who ruled over this event for almost all of the past quarter century. Not this time, though. And though the star quotient was lower than usual, his presence wasn’t missed in any…

In moves reminiscent of how the FBI brought down Al Capone over tax evasion, the Manhattan District Attorney's office is sending out subpoenas focusing on Harvey Weinstein's finances as part of a grand jury investigation. While much attention has been given the past month to The Weinstein Company's bankruptcy…

Designer Kenneth Cole told attendees at last night’s annual amfAR gala in New York kicking off Fashion Week that he was resigning as chairman of the AIDS organization, three months after word surfaced of a tacit deal with Harvey Weinstein. “Today, my 14-year term as chairman concludes," Cole told the audience at…

UPDATE Wednesday: A spokesperson for Harvey Weinstein today provided this response to earlier stories in Deadline and Vanity Fair: "Mr. Weinstein has dedicated his life to helping raise funding to find a cure for AIDS…Over the years he has raised over $50 million  personally in donations and in his own contributions…

AIDS activists are coming after fashion designer Kenneth Cole, demanding that he quit as board chairman of the AIDS research charity amfAR because of a deal he made with Harvey Weinstein. An open letter was written and signed by more than 60 people including Greg Louganis, Larry Kramer and Peter Staley asking that he…

James Corden apparently didn’t get the memo that Hollywood isn’t joking about Harvey Weinstein. A week after Saturday Night Live ignored the Weinstein scandal – the NBC comedy gets a second chance tonight – Corden dove in head first at last night’s AmfAR Gala Los Angeles. "This is a beautiful room,” Corden said…

For nearly a quarter of a century now, amFAR’s gala Cannes event has been a cornerstone of the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival. Although, because of this year’s 70th anniversary fest event and dinner earlier this week where Salma Hayek led a conga line of luminaries, it had to compete for the title of most star…

It was a disco theme for amfAR’s  23rd annual Cinema Against AIDS event at the Hotel Du Cap at the Cannes Film Festival, and that meant none other than The Village People and Sister Sledge invaded the ritzy party, each doing one of their iconic songs ( “YMCA”  and “We Are Family” — you guess who did what). The event…

An estimated €30 million ($33.4 million) was raised at the 22nd annual amfAR Cinema Against Aids Gala in Cannes on Thursday night, an event that again proved to be the most glamorous and star-studded of the festival. The lavish auction is always the highlight of this dinner, and it didn’t disappoint, led by the €12…

In what resembles a richly colored fantasyland, there are banners, billboards and pop-up displays for the likes of Warner Bros' Mad Max: Fury Road, Paramount's Terminator: Genisys, Sony's Pixels, Fox's The Peanuts Movie and Disney's Inside Out adorning the front of the Carlton Hotel here as Cannes gets underway. The…

Gwyneth Paltrow and talent agent Bryan Lourd cohosted the 5th annual amfAR LA Inspiration Gala, which honored fashion designer and A Single Man director Tom Ford. Miley Cyrus wore a bondage-style dress that Ford designed, but she wasn’t the only one who showed a lot of skin. Rihanna also left little to the imagination…

The wine and the money were flowing at Cinema Against AIDS 21, the annual fundraising event for amFAR timed to the Cannes Film Festival and largely hosted by Harvey Weinstein who announced a record-smashing take of $35 million this year. That’s far and away higher than the astronomical $25 million earned last year. …