There are many benefits to having your fame stretch out beyond your borders. Not the least of which is having people all over the world pay to see you. Usually they pay a few bucks for the privilege – to catch you in a movie or in concert. Sometimes they pay you £580,000 for you to sway your hips on top of their cake, so long as you don’t smudge the cyrillic ‘Happy 40th’ that’s written in Commie-red frosting.

And such is the case for both Christina Aguilera and Shakira Goldstein – or whatever her last name is. They shared a Russian billionaire fan that wanted to score with them on his birthday, and score he did – but only musically. They likely went through all their hits while dancing with their arms rigidly folded way out in front of them, and alternating ‘kicking leg – squatting leg’ rhythmically to the music.

You know what we mean – just like in the end of The Man Who Knew Too Little.

Shakira (CDs) and Christina Aguilera recently played a Russian
billionaire’s birthday party, where they were reportedly paid £580,000
a piece for their performances. If they’d played during communism,
then every single person in Russia would have gotten £580,000 – even
the poorest of the peasants. Too bad they dragged their feet. Isn’t
that how Communism worked?

The money is chump change for birthday boy Suleiman Kerimov,
who turned 40 at the bash. Kerimov is rumored to have recently forked
out $900 million to buy a company that owns gold and silver mines, and
sometimes he thinks about buying football teams. Other times he may or
may not think about paying off Michael Jackson’s starving employees -
with a heavy emphasis on the may not. He’s absolutely loaded, hence
his billionaire title.

hecklerspray bets the birthday bash was terrific. We envision
Aguilera and Shakira sexily gyrating their hips on top of a cracked
cement dome that used to be the Chernobyl Power Plant. When the girls
finished their sets, they probably slid down a glowing smoke stack to
grab some cake – or some пирог as the Russians call it. Our office has
keyboards in over two languages.

Anyway, it doesn’t take a billionaire to get celebrity attention at
a birthday party. hecklerspray gets it all the time. We got O-Town to  play Passover, and we’re paying them in slabs of meat and the lure of possible food stamps. We said possible food stamps – we’ll not tell them otherwise until the very last note of All Or Nothing. It’s called hardball, people.

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Christina Aguilera And Shakira Get Paid Big To Sing At Billionaires House – UK Flava 

[story by Shawn Lindseth]