Usher the latest pop star shamed into dumping his Gaddafi money
Let’s say your father is an evil dictator by day, and a doting sugar daddy at night. Actually, let’s just assume you’re Mutassim-Billah Gaddafi, the fourth son of Libayan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Not only does your close relation to a man of such power and wealth hook you up with a sweet gig—hello, national-security advisor!—but Pops is also generous with footing the bill for the entertainment whenever you want to invite the bros over. According to Rolling Stone, Qaddafi paid Mariah Carey $1 million to perform at a New Year’s Eve party hosted by Mutassim on St. Barts in the Caribbean in 2008. Beyonce, Usher, 50 Cent, and Nelly Furtado have also received huge sums of money in recent years in exchange for looking the other way from Gaddafi’s well-publicized resume of terror and savagery going back several decades.