{"id":23271,"date":"2013-08-05T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23271"},"modified":"2013-08-05T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T20:42:26","slug":"russell-simmons-raises-1-5m-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23271","title":{"rendered":"Russell Simmons Raises $1.5M  For The Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities, activists, artists and media descended upon Bridgehampton, New York last Saturday July 28 to help raise more than $1.5 million \u2014 and counting \u2014 for<b> Danny <\/b>and<b> Russell Simmons\u2019 <\/b>fourteenth annual Art For Life Benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held at the Fairview Farms estate in East Hampton, helped to raise money for the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, which provides arts education opportunities for inner-city youth.<\/p>\n<p>Guests included <b>Michael Strahan<\/b>, <b>Nicole Murphy<\/b>, A<b>nthony Anderson<\/b>, <b>Rev. Al Sharpton<\/b>, <b>Star Jones<\/b>, <b>Angela Simmons<\/b> and more. Youthful new faces such as <b>Skylar Diggins<\/b>, <b>Olivia Culpo<\/b>, <b>Nana Meriwether<\/b>, <b>Melanie Fiona<\/b> and <b>Tahira Jose <\/b>were also seen on the scene to bring attention to the importance of promoting culture among our youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities, activists, artists and media descended upon Bridgehampton, New York last Saturday July 28 to help raise more than $1.5 million \u2014 and counting \u2014 for Danny and Russell Simmons\u2019 fourteenth annual Art For Life Benefit. The event, held at the Fairview Farms estate in East Hampton, helped to raise money for the Rush Philanthropic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}