{"id":9259,"date":"2013-07-12T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:54:41","slug":"the-economics-of-celebrities-hiring-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-celebrities-hiring-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Celebrities Hiring Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071213_1347_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-23125719\">recently got into trouble<\/a> for singing Happy Birthday to the leader of Turkmenistan. Katy Waldman looked at the economics of the celebrity-authoritarian ruler relationship:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By performing at private events celebrities can make a lot of money (up to $16 million) from the ultra-wealthy for very little effort, making it a lucrative proposition.<\/li>\n<li>Performing for dictators is a particularly attractive since they often pay in cash \u2013 which is difficult for the tax authorities to track.<\/li>\n<li>There are three tiers of celebrities that do this, depending on their level of star-power.<\/li>\n<li>Those who just about famous such as Enrique Iglesias&#8217; father can perform for corrupt dictators without attracting too much negative media press.<\/li>\n<li>Then there are the celebrity A-Listers such as Johnny Depp and and Tom Hanks who are too rich to really need side-gigs.<\/li>\n<li>In the middle though there are celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Robin Williams, and Destiny&#8217;s Child among others who are famous enough that when they perform for the wrong individuals they can court controversy.<\/li>\n<li>Yet this controversy rarely sticks. Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado, 50 Cent, and Beyonc\u00e9 have performed for questionable individuals, but they remain popular.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out who Robin Williams, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Celine Dion, and others have performed for, as well as why celebrities do it over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2013\/07\/celebrities_for_hire_jennifer_lopez_christina_aguilera_justin_timberlake.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2013\/07\/celebrities_for_hire_jennifer_lopez_christina_aguilera_justin_timberlake.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lopez recently got into trouble for singing Happy Birthday to the leader of Turkmenistan. Katy Waldman looked at the economics of the celebrity-authoritarian ruler relationship: By performing at private events celebrities can make a lot of money (up to $16 million) from the ultra-wealthy for very little effort, making it a lucrative proposition. Performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071213_1347_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9263,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/9263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}