According to an article on CNN's Entertainment Web Site, there is a growing trend of chosen celebrities getting paid thousands of dollars by club owners and managers to appear or party at their select location. This list of celebrities includes Paris and Nicky Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Jon Gosselin, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, and Britney Spears. For example, Kim Kardashian was reported paid $50,000 to celebrate her birthday at a nightclub in Las Vegas.
Many club executives believe that the cost is worth the benefits because after hearing about the possibility of being able to party with a celebrity, people will come swarming in, or so the executives hope.
Personally, hearing something like this disgusts me. Although I know it is very unlikely to work, this is what I would like to see happen instead: instead of paying the celebrity directly, they should tell the celebrity that if they make an appearance at their night club, they will help enhance the celebrity's image to the public by making a generous donation in the celebrity's name to a charity or nonprofit organization. That way, the money isn't being spent on the already-overblown salaries of the A-list wealthy and it will go towards a good cause. Then again, will the opportunity to come off as a good samaritan and not as a spoiled socialite be enough motive for most celebrities to show up? Probably not.
I completely agree with your alternative idea. However, I do think, or at least hope, that celebrities would still show up at these clubs if the money were going to a charity instead of straight into their pockets. To add to your creative idea, maybe the celebrities should be given a choice of which charity they would like to donate the money to. Also, I think that if your idea were to happen, more money would be raised. People would surely come out to see a celebrity at a club, especially if it were for a good cause.
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