Elton John's threads raise $700,000 for AIDS charities

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Elton John's

            threads raise $700,000 for AIDS charity
       John and partner
            David Furnish unload 10,000 items of clothing.     
 Outtraveler Staff
          
          Apr 17, 2006
          
        
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       After all the
            receipts were counted for Elton John's five-day charity
            clothing sale, the pop star's flashy duds managed to
            pull in       more than $700,000 for AIDS
            charities.     
       The proceeds from
            the sale of 10,000 pieces of couture and outrageous
            rock star garb, which took place at New York's Rockefeller
            Center, will go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.     
       The fund-raiser
            featured personal items from John and his partner, David
            Furnish, including $15 T-shirts, a $5,000 cashmere coat,
            pieces by       Versace and Gucci, and the polka-dot suit
            John wore during his       Grammy duet with Eminem.
                (The Advocate)      

        
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Elton John's
threads raise $700,000 for AIDS charity