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Penn made ambassador for Haiti

Sean Penn was officially made an ambassador at large for Haiti on Saturday night for his relief work for the country, still reeling from the devastating earthquake two years ago. Penn was offered the job by the Haitian foreign minister Laurent Lamothe at the Cinema for Peace benefit at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I do accept,” Penn said, adding it would be useful to “change being called hey you (bleep), to hey Mr. Ambassador!” The event, which raised $5 million for Haiti, was attended by an A-list crowd including a very thin but happy-looking Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson, James Gandolfini and Hilary Swank. During the auction, singer Damien Rice spent $475,000 on Bono’s guitar while Roberts’ husband, Danny Moder, bid $50,000on a trip to Haiti with Penn.