The Hot Joints » Lunch http://www.thehotjoints.com Conservative news and opinion Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:35 +0000 en hourly 1 US couple pays 160,000 dollars for lunch with Gorbachevhttp://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/11/09/us-couple-pays-160000-dollars-for-lunch-with-gorbachev/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/11/09/us-couple-pays-160000-dollars-for-lunch-with-gorbachev/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:28:53 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/11/09/us-couple-pays-160000-dollars-for-lunch-with-gorbachev/

From AFP:

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will have lunch on Saturday with a US couple who paid 160,000 dollars (109,000 euros) at a charity auction for the pleasure, Interfax news agency reported.

The couple bid the money at the auction in London in June. “We’ll have cabbage, herring and vodka,” all traditional Russian dishes, Gorbachev was quoted as saying on Friday.

The auction raised four million dollars and was organised by the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, named after the late wife of the Soviet leader who died of cancer in 1999.

The money raised will go to two children’s cancer hospitals in Russia.

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