music · 27 November 2005 · 20 years ago
Multimillionaire defence contractor David H. Brooks booked New Yorks Rainbow Rooms and his daughter Elizabeths favourite acts for her bat mitzvah coming-of-age celebration. The stars who appeared included 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Stevie Nicks. 50 Cent who was paid $500,000 to appear performed only four songs but he did manage to work in the lyric, "Go shorty, it's your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah". The party cost an estimated $10 million, including the price of corporate jets to ferry the performers to and from the venue.
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