USA: GIORGIO ARMANI HOLDS PARTY FOR MUSICAN ERIC CLAPTON BEFORE HE AUCTIONS HIS GUITAR COLLECTION FOR CHARITY

Record ID: 705162

  • Title: USA: GIORGIO ARMANI HOLDS PARTY FOR MUSICAN ERIC CLAPTON BEFORE HE AUCTIONS HIS GUITAR COLLECTION FOR CHARITY
  • Date: 19th June 1999
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JUNE 12) (REUTERS) VARIOUS SHOTS OF CLAPTON'S GUITARS UP FOR AUCTION FOR CROSSROADS CENTRE FOR DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE GIORGIO ARMANI POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (ITALIAN) GIORGIO ARMANI SAYING WHY HE'S HOSTING THIS PARTY ERIC CLAPTON POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS PHOTOGRAPHER (SOUNDBITE) (English) ERIC CLAPTON SAYING: "I'm writing music for a movie, I'm getting ready to make an album with B.B. King and then an album for myself, tour of Japan, and trying to get some space where I can." JEFF GOLDBLUM POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) JEFF GOLDBLUM SAYING: "He's doing it for this cause, which seems like a terrific use. I'm sure he'll find things to play and be able to make music, you know, the music's in him, it's not in the instrument, but, me, I'm not a collector of things myself, I like to get rid of all my old stuff." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ERIC CLAPTON SAYING "I am in recovery. I don't drink or take drugs anymore. I was in a place once where that was all I could think about and my life is very good and I want to share that." VARIOUS GUITARS CLAPTON CHATTING INSIDE PARTY VARIOUS GUITARS
  • Embargoed: 4th July 1999 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment,General,Health
  • Reuters ID: LVADD7B13TDFOTQ6YKYKLLZDCQX2
  • Story Text: Some of Hollywood's heavy-hitters turned out on Saturday night, June 12 at a private party hosted by fashion king Giorgio Armani for his long-time friend Eric Clapton in celebration of Clapton's upcoming Christie's benefit auction of his historic collection of guitars.
    On June 24, Christie's auction house in New York City will auction off 100 of Clapton's historic guitars, including "Brownie," the 1956 sunburst Fender Stratocaster on which he first played his classic song "Layla."
    Clapton hopes to raise close to one million US dollars in the auction, all of which will go to the Crossroads Centre, a drug and alcohol dependency treatment centre Clapton helped to found in the Caribbean island nation of Antigua in 1998.
    His interest in drug treatment came from his own well-publicised battle with alcohol and drugs, from which he says he is still recovering.He picked Antigua for his Centre because he has a home there and he was upset by the soaring addiction rate throughout the Caribbean.
    The 36 bed centre uses customers' fees to subsidise treatment for those who can't afford it and admittance is not limited to island residents.
    Italian fashion magnate Giorgio Armani hosted Saturday night's party, which brought out such celebrities as Jeff Goldblum, Glenn Close and David Hasselhoff.
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