Leona Lewis Gets Paid $1.5 Mil To Party

British billionaire John Caudwell hired Leona Lewis to perform at his daughter’s 21st birthday. This would ensure numerous “weddings & bar mitzvahs” jokes were it not for the hefty (read: super gangster) price tag of 1 million pounds (US $1.457 million). Mr. Caudwell is notorious for throwing such AIGish parties, he paid Diana Ross 250,000 pounds to perform at his girlfriend’s 40th b’day bash.

In related news, have you ever seen someone so reliably unpredictable looking in photographs as Ms. Lewis? I think she’s lovely and her new hair color and do is both elegant and sultry but sometimes I think the Leona Lewis brand is made up of about 20 different gorgeous females of ambiguous cultural lineage. She just looks SO DIFFERENT in every photo. Now, a study: