(dailymail.co.uk) - When the liberal elite were offered the chance to pay up to $500,000 each to attend Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday extravaganza tonight - with the added promise of a private Rolling Stones concert - a packed house was expected.
Wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea sent out about 10,000 invitations to Hollywood tycoons, movie stars, captains of industry and Wall Street - with all proceeds to go to the former President’s charitable foundation.
Yeah, I’m sure there wasn’t a paper cut between them.
The minimum price, with inferior concert seats and no brunch, was set at $60,000. But with many rich Democrats sending their regrets, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that last Wednesday the Clintons drastically slashed prices to $12,500 for one reception and the concert, or $5,000 for just the Stones.
With the looming possibility of finding themselves amid a sea of empty chairs at the 2,900-seat Manhattan venue, tickets then went on sale to the public for as little as $1,710.
Haa! Then it gets better…
And there is a danger that the Clintons’ plans may end in a total fiasco, after the Stones cancelled Friday’s show in Atlantic City when Mick Jagger complained of a sore throat and was ordered to rest by a doctor.
The supergroup has flown to New York in preparation for today’s concert but an insider said it was too soon to know whether Jagger will be fit enough to perform.
Aww, too bad for the first suckers that paid full price, eh?