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The Curious Case of Jay-Z’s Missing Champagne Tower at the Obama Fund-raiser, SolvedThis morning, we were disappointed to discover that the White House press pool failed to mention the 18-foot illuminated champagne tower that sits in the 40/40 Club during its write-up of last night’s Jay-Z-and-Beyoncé-hosted fund-raiser for the Obama campaign. After all, how can you miss an 18-foot illuminated champagne tower? Alas, The Washington Post reports that event organizers at the Manhattan sports club, which Jay-Z co-owns, hid the 350-bottle structure under a “dark dropcloth” so that only a few bottles on the top were visible.
Even without the champagne tower on full display, the New York City event still managed to raise a reported $4 million. For each guest’s $40,000 donation, he/she was thanked in wine, sliders, and a speech from the sitting president, in which he revealed that he is on a nickname basis with the first couple of the hip-hop world.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2012/09/jay-z-champagne-tower-beyonce-obama-fund-raiserwerd
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