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Furtado said she plans to give away to charity the $1 million she earned for performing in private for the Gadhafi family in 2007. There are increasing calls for Beyonce, Usher, Mariah Carey and 50 Cent, all of whom reportedly performed for high fees for Gadhafi's relatives, to take a stand as well, the BBC reported.
Public relations firms and lobbyists who have collected eye-popping fees from Arab nations to appeal to Washington lawmakers on their behalf rarely admit to working for Libya, but they have already dropped clients like Tunisia as revolution continues to roil the Middle East.
The venerable London School of Economics, which received a $488,000 donation from Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, now says it will divert the money to establish a scholarship fund for North African students, The New York Times reported today. The school said in a statement that it regretted "the reputational damage" caused by its association with Gadhafi's name.
The money was donated to the school's Global Governance program. Seif completed both a master's degree and a doctorate at the school and runs the family's International Charity and Development Foundation.
The school also said it is investigating whether parts of his 400-page 2007 Ph.D. thesis might have been plagiarized or ghost-written.
Seif was once viewed as the great hope of his father's regime because he spoke of reforming Libya and even distanced himself from his family at one point. Then, last week, he shocked the school by appearing on TV, backing his father and vowing that they would fight to stay in Libya even if it meant "rivers of blood."
"The LSE is aware that there are allegations of plagiarism," spokesman Jess Winterstein said, according to the Times. "The school takes all allegations of plagiarism very seriously and is looking into the matter in accordance with standard LSE procedures."
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The school's announcement on Tuesday came after students occupied the staff dining room and the director's office last week to protest the school's association with the Libyan government."Students are saying: 'It's dirty money. Give it back,'" said Charlotte Girada, president of the student union, the Times reported. "The LSE prides itself on a commitment to social justice and democratic principles, and we really need to think more carefully about who we take money from."
Howard Marlowe, president of the American League of Lobbyists, said many of the Arab regimes are hard to resist working for because of the money they have at their disposal, The Times reported. Still, he said, "a number of lobbyists will stay away from international clients -- period." To work with dictators in Middle Eastern nations with policies that many Americans find unsavory, he said, "you have to have a strong stomach."
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