Just before she
headlined Saturday night's Japan disaster relief benefit concert, Lady Gaga was
sued over the bracelets she's been selling for the same cause. According to the
federal class action, the
do-gooder pop star wasn't exactly being honest when her Web site claimed all the
proceeds from sales of her "We Pray for Japan" wristbands would go to help victims of the March earthquake and tsunami. A Detroit-era legal network said in its complaint, filed Friday, that Gaga kept part of the $5 that every customer paid for a wristband and
inflated shipping charges so she could pocket more. She then counted even the money she allegedly pocketed in her donation figures, artificially inflating donation numbers, in order to make more money, the suit charged. (nbcdfw.com)
The world's first official AKB48 Cafe opened yesterday at SCAPE, along Orchard Road. Started in 2005, AKB48 is one of Japan's top female idol pop groups, with their own theatre performance in Akihabara, Tokyo. The soft-launch yesterday saw three members of the group - Maria Abe, Haruka Shimazaki and Miyu Takeuchi - attending the event, where they met with fans and gave out souvenirs. The cafe in Singapore, which can seat 60, has been designed to replicate AKB48's very own theatre in Japan, where girls with potential to become next-generation idols are given a chance to audition. (AsiaOne)
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