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Lady Gaga, Robin Hood Raise $47 Million for Poor, Veterans
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The Robin Hood Foundation gala, Wall Street’s largest single-evening fundraising event, had Lady Gaga onstage and took in $47.4 million last night at its annual New York dinner.
The sum, which fell short of last year’s record of $87.8 million, will go to groups fighting poverty in the city. The total included $11.9 million raised at tables for a new program that will assist veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and National Reservists, as well as $400,000 for an auction item to fly to Los Angeles and record a song with Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am.