Sean Penn urges sex strike for haiti in Cannes

May 20, 2012 |

Actor and activist Sean Penn urged a glamorous party of Cannes actresses and glitterati to go on a sex strike unless their men stumped up at a charity auction held for Haiti on Friday night.
Jessica Chastain and Cannes juror Diane Kruger were among the stars who turned out for a “Carnival in Cannes” fundraiser held by the US actor on the sidelines of the Riviera filmfest, jointly with Italian couturier Giorgio Armani.
“I want every woman in this room, in solidarity with the women of Haiti who have suffered more than any women in the world, to tell the man sitting next to her: ‘I am not going to f**k you tonight unless you pay up!’,” Penn told the room.
Tickled pink by Penn’s outburst, his guests at the Agora pavilion by the Riviera festival palace duly paid out a total of 1.3 million euros to help Haiti recover from its devastating 2010 quake.
Celebrities present included Cannes jurors Jean-Paul Gaultier and Ewan McGregor, Chastain’s co-stars in the Madagascar franchise Ben Stiller and Chris Rock, as well as Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
Among the lots snapped up, two VIP seats for a U2 concert and a guitar belonging to the band’s frontman Bono raised 200,000 euros, alongside VIP seats for the Golden Globes and invitations to meet Monaco’s Prince Albert.
Three people spent 100,000 euros each to spend three days with Penn in Haiti.

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