Hillary Clinton Teases Sharon Stone On “Gigantic Bath Robe” Gown In Light Moment At Weighty Cinema For Peace Gala in Berlin
20.02.2024 - 04:39
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Hillary Clinton and Sharon Stone shared the stage at the annual Cinema for Peace funder raiser in Berlin on Monday night with the latter presenting the former U.S. secretary of state with the NGO’s Cinema for Peace Award.
Stone described Clinton as an inspirational figure in her life: “The things you’ve said have changed my life, changed the direction and changed the course of the things I’ve chosen to do.”
Clinton gently ribbed Stone about her gala gown, a tie at the front robe covered in mauve spots.
“To my friend Sharon Stone who can look amazingly beautiful in anything. When she walked in, I was like, ‘Wow, who besides Sharon Stone could wear a gigantic bath robe and look stunning… you are one of a kind my friend, one of kind,” she said.
Further honorees included Pope Francis, who was seen receiving the award on taped recording, and former UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, who was also in the room.
Later in the evening, an original artwork by Stone sold for €50,000 in a fund-raising auction. Other lots included one entry to the pre-Academy Awards the Night Before party at Fox Studios in L.A. and a screenplay for Golda signed by actress Helen Mirren
The Clinton-Stone exchange was one of the lighter moments in an otherwise weighty evening which reflected on the death this week of Russian political activist Alexei Navalny, the rise in anti-Semitism in the light of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Southern Israel and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Bob Geldof, Clinton and Russian Pussy Riot dissident Nadya Tolokonnikova were among those paying tribute to Navalny.
The Cinema for Peace Foundation had a special connection with the late activist having organized his airlift from Russia after his poisoning in 2020, at the request of