Russell Simmons Throws Charity Bash

No, that is not Russell Simmons pictured above.

By Fred Mills

Sigh. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: sometimes these news items just write themselves.

If you’re a BLURT reader, you know that we get deluged by press releases every day, right? Some we save, some we cull info from in order to create brilliant copy for our website, some we shamelessly copy verbatim because we’re too bored, tired or drunk to rewrite ‘em ourselves, some we delete immediately, and some we, uh, stare at for awhile and THEN delete.

So we’ve been getting daily email blasts about this upcoming Art For Life benefit being hosted by hip-hop/media mogul Russell Simmons this Saturday. Definitely a charity worth supporting, yo.

It’ll be held at Russell’s East Hampton estate, and in conjunction with Charitybuzz.com, Art for Life is auctioning off celebrity experiences like a birthday gift from John Legend in the form of singing Happy Birthday, a trip to the Vatican, tickets to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, two tickets to meet Tyra Banks at a taping of her talk show and receive a personal mini-catwalk lesson by Tyra Banks herself, a date to check out a NYC sporting event at Madison Square Garden with model Petra Nemcova, a personal training session with Olympic gold medalist and 2008 Wimbledon finalist Serena Williams and many others.

Where’s our corporate checkbook!

Anyhow, today’s email blast (the second of the day, actually, but we deleted that one) included the above photo, plus this helpful text. Seriously, this is the kind of email BLURT gets. Yes, we know you are jealous.

Now we KNOW we gotta find that checkbook, fire up the Hummer and head to the Hamptons. Well, right after we finish meditating and relaxing of course. See ya there!

Playboy Playmate Destiny Davis (destinydavis.com) has a dilemma. "I want to learn to meditate and relax," she says. So who does she turn to but her "favorite celebrity couple," Russell Simmons and Porschla Coleman. Russell and Porschla may not be making love anymore but they sure are still doing yoga! So Destiny is plopping down $2500 to bid on a yoga lesson with Porschla and Russell in Russell's NYC apartment as part of this year's Rush Philanthropic's Art for Life benefit event this Saturday, July 19 at Russell's East Hampton estate. Can you just see Destiny in downward dog now?