The Cannes Film Festival took a serious turn Thursday night, when Sharon Stone honored the memory of her friend Natasha Richardson at amfAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS event.
Stone, 51, hosted the annual charity event, held at the Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc on the Cap D’Antibes. The star, who was introduced on stage by studio head Harvey Weinstein, grew teary as she spoke of her friend and co-amfAR worker Richardson, who died in March after a head injury from a skiing accident.
“This year we lost an angel from our amfAR family. It was one of those random events that leaves you in a state of shock and profound grief. In March the funny, graceful Natasha Richardson was taken from us,” said Stone.
Wiping her eyes, she whispered into the microphone: “People say, ‘Oh, she can’t really have been that great or graceful.’ She was. ‘That funny, charming, sweet and elegant.’ She was. She left behind her husband and two stunningly beautiful children and an unfinished mission to help us find a cure AIDS.”
After a short film chronicling Richardson’s tireless campaigning for the charity, Stone read a note from Richardson’s husband, Liam Neeson, urging everyone to continue with their great work. Stone also pledged $50,000 of her own money to honor Richardson.
Completing the emotional tribute, Annie Lennox performed “Talking To An Angel,” then said, “That was for Natasha.”
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Sharon Stone is firing back at a judge who claimed that she wanted her 8-year-old son Roan to receive Botox treatments for his “foot odor.”
“This week it was reported in connection with Sharon Stone’s custody dispute that she wanted to have her young 8 year-old son undergo Botox treatment at this time for his feet. Sharon Stone never made this statement. It is a complete fabrication,” her attorney Martin Singer tells Entertainment Tonight. “Sharon loves her son Roan and only wants the best for him.”
The statement comes days after a San Francisco judge claimed in new Superior Court papers that the actress, 50, “delegates many of her parenting responsibilities to third parties” and has “simply refused” to participate in counseling unless her “schedule is accommodated and her demands are met.”
“Such conduct on the part of any parent … is unacceptable and does not serve the child’s best interest,” said the judge, who added that she tends “to overreact” to many medical issues involving her son.
The judge’s remarks were a tentative statement on Stone’s motion to modify custody.
The judge has turned down Stone’s request to move her son Roan to Los Angeles, where she lives, from his father Phil Bronstein’s home in San Francisco. She is allowed visitation time with the child, including weekends and holidays.
Stone and Bronstein – who wed in 1998 – adopted Roan in 2000 and divorced in 2004.
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Sharon Stone “appears to overreact to many medical issues involving Roan,” her 8-year-old son with ex-husband Phil Bronstein, a San Francisco judge declared in a filing Tuesday, according to TMZ.com.
In a Tentative Statement of Decision as part of the actress’ ongoing custody battle with Bronstein, the judge claimed that Stone suspected Roan had a spinal problem despite “no evidence to support this allegation.
“Another example of an overreaction is that [Stone] suggested that Roan should have Botox injections in his feet to resolve a problem he had with foot odor,” the San Francisco Superior Court judge wrote.
The judge said Bronstein had a more “simple and common sense approach” to Roan’s problem: he made sure he “wore socks with his shoes and used foot deodorant” to avoid “any invasive procedure on this young child.”
The judge concluded by saying that it’s unclear how Stone has “limited her career to make herself available for Roan.
“Unfortunately, the problem caused by [Stone's] overreactions is painfully real for this child,” the judge added.
Stone now has visitation of Roan for one weekend a month and on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Extra reported.
According to documents detailing a September 12 custody hearing, it was ruled that Bronstein “shall have permanent sole physical custody of child” because “[Stone] failed to meet her burden of proof and denies respondent’s [Sharon Stone's] request for modification of custody.”
According to the minute order, Bronstein is able to “provide a more structured continuity, stable, secure and consistent home that… Roan needs.”
In October 2007, a judge had ruled that Stone and Bronstein, a newspaper editor, had “joint legal and physical custody” of Roan, whom they adopted.
Stone and Bronstein, who wed wed on Valentine’s Day in 1998, announced they were splitting in 2003.
In 2006, Stone adopted her third child, Quinn Kelly Stone, who joined sons Roan and Laird.
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Sharon Stone has lost physical custody of her eight-year-old son Roan, according to a court minute obtained by Entertainment Tonight.
According to documents detailing a September 12, 2008 custody hearing, her ex-husband Phil Bronstein “shall have permanent sole physical custody of child. Court finds that respondent [Sharon Stone] failed to meet her burden of proof and denies respondent’s [Sharon Stone's] request for modification of custody.”
According to the minute order, Bronstein is able to “provide a more structured continuity, stable, secure and consistent home that…Roan needs.”
The judge notes the order is permanent unless Stone moves closer to Bronstein in San Francisco.
In October 2007, a judge had ruled that Stone and Bronstein, a newspaper editor, had “joint legal and physical custody” of Roan, whom they adopted.
Stone and Bronstein, who wed wed on Valentine’s Day in 1998, announced they were splitting in 2003.
In 2006, Stone adopted her third child, Quinn Kelly Stone, who joined sons Roan and Laird.
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Friday August 22 2008. 50-year-old Sharon Stone shows off her 24-year-old man, Chase Dreyfous! The couple were out at Eva Longoria Parker’s restaurant, Beso, for dinner. The couple attracted a crowd of paparazzi as they left Eva Longoria Parker’s mexican restaurant.
Sharon Stone’s new boy toy
Sharon Stone’s current love interest is half her age — and that hasn’t stopped him from bragging about her to all of his friends. “I’ve started dating Sharon Stone, and she’s pretty good for 50,” Chase Dreyfous, 24, told his pals at a birthday party at Crown Bar on August 8 in LA. “Sharon called him and he showed the caller ID to everyone,” adds an insider. The unlikely pair, who met in early July while working together on Sharon’s charity, Planet Hope, were first spotted getting cozy at a party thrown by fashion designer Christian Audigier on August 2 in LA. “She’s really into him and even asked him to come with her to Mexico,” the insider says. Sharon was married to media mogul Phil Bronstein for six years before they divorced in early 2004. Chase and Sharon stepped out at Christian Audigier’s “white party,” which was held to celebrate the birthday of Christian’s wife, Ira.
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PETA OFFERS SHARON STONE A BRAIN SCAN
Bosses at animal rights group People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are offering SHARON STONE a free brain scan – in an effort to improve her compassion.
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk has written to the movie star, suggesting her refusal to stop wearing fur and recent ill-advised comments she made about the Chinese earthquake could be symptoms of an underdeveloped brain.
Acknowledging Stone is an intelligent woman, PETA bosses fear the actress may need to work on her compassionate nature. And, after she was forced to apologise to China for suggesting the country’s recent earthquake tragedy was “karma” for the way the nation treat Tibetans, PETA chiefs feel Stone might be ready to undergo medical tests.
In her letter, Newkirk writes, “Given that millions of people… were killed, injured, and left homeless by the recent earthquake in China, everyone was shocked to hear you dismiss the devastating effects of this disaster.
“However, your cavalier attitude did not come as a surprise to us. We are used to the indifference that you flaunt and the callous remarks that you make about the suffering and death of the animals whose fur you wear so often.
“Scientific studies suggest that the prefrontal regions of the brains of people who lack empathy might be underdeveloped. Here’s our offer: Would you allow PETA to pay for a scan of the prefrontal region of your brain to determine if comments and actions that seem to demonstrate a lack of empathy are the result of a physical defect?”
The star suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2001 but has since fought her way back to health.
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Hollywood star Sharon Stone has apologised for suggesting China’s earthquake was bad “karma” for its handling of Tibet, but Christian Dior on Thursday dropped her from its local ads amid a public uproar.
The 50-year-old US actress offered to help with relief efforts after the May 12 quake that killed nearly 70,000 people, in an effort to smooth over tensions sparked by her controversial comments at the Cannes Film Festival last week.
“My erroneous words and deeds angered and saddened the Chinese people, and I sincerely apologise for this,” she said in a statement issued by Dior China and sent to AFP on Thursday.
“I’m willing to participate in any earthquake relief activity and to do my utmost to help Chinese people affected by the disaster,” she added.
But Dior said Stone — who promotes the French luxury brand’s anti-ageing skin-care line, among other products — would no longer appear in its ads in China.
“In light of the negative reaction that Sharon Stone’s inappropriate remarks have triggered, Dior China has decided to immediately cancel and stop any advertisements, marketing campaigns and commercial activities associated with Sharon Stone,” it said.
Stone — perhaps best known for her starring role in “Basic Instinct” — sparked the controversy last week, which has angered people across China and led to pledges by some cinemas here to boycott her films.
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said, according to footage widely available on YouTube.
“And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma — when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
The remarks sparked an uproar in China, where people are in no hurry to forgive her, according to a survey published on the popular web portal www.qq.com.
Of the more than 300,000 who had participated in the survey by late Thursday, 70.3 percent said they would “never forgive” Stone, while 20.5 percent did not accept her apology because “it was not sincere”.
Another 8.7 percent said an apology was useless and it was necessary to observe her actions, while a mere 0.6 percent said they were satisfied by her apology.
Before pulling Stone from its ads, Christian Dior’s China branch had already distanced itself from her comments.
“We don’t agree with her hasty, unreflecting remarks and we deeply regret them,” Dior said in a Chinese-language statement.
“Dior was one of the first international brands to enter China and has won the affection and respect of the consuming public. We absolutely do not support any remark that hurts the Chinese people’s feelings.
“We express our sorrow over the compatriots who lost their lives in the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and we extend our sympathy and condolences to the people in the disaster area.”
Tibet was rocked by unrest in March. According to aides of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, 203 Tibetans were killed and 1,000 injured in China’s subsequent crackdown in the Himalayan region.
But China says Tibetan “rioters” and “insurgents” killed 21 people, and has accused the Dalai Lama of trying to sabotage the Beijing Olympics — a charge he denies.
On May 12, a massive earthquake struck China’s southwest Sichuan province, leaving nearly 88,000 people dead or missing.
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French fashion house Christian Dior said Thursday it has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese ads and released a statement from the actress apologizing for saying China’s earthquake may have been bad karma for its treatment of Tibet.
The 50-year-old actress said she was “deeply sorry” for causing anguish and anger among Chinese people wwhen you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”ith her remarks in an interview last week. Stone models for Christian Dior SA, and the company’s Shanghai office issued the statement.
Stone’s comments caused considerable anger in the Chinese media. The official Xinhua News Agency said in a commentary Thursday she was the “public enemy of all mankind.”
The public relations manager for Dior in Shanghai who gave only her surname, Guo, said Stone would no longer appear in the company’s advertisements in China.
“Due to my inappropriate words and acts during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting Chinese people,” Stone said in the statement. “I am willing to take part in the relief work of China’s earthquake, and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people.”
Chinese media have erupted in indignation over foreign criticism of the country ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August. During the international leg of the Olympic torch relay, many Chinese reacted strongly to protests over China’s rule of Tibet.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday he had taken note of Stone’s apology.
“We hope that as an actress she should contribute to our two peoples’ mutual trust, understanding and friendship,” he said.
Stone’s original comments were made last week during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview.
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
