Lady Gaga gave Wall Street the finger Monday night.
“Oops, I broke a nail,” cooed the diva while performing for 4,100 moneyed guests at the Robin Hood Foundation’s annual gala where top bankers paid up to $250,000 for tables.
Gaga then showed the room evidence of her mangled manicure by appearing to playfully flip the bird with her middle finger, a witness told us.
Despite the decimated digit, Gaga performed for an hour in front of heavy hitters from Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, JP Morgan, Guggenheim Partners, McKinsey & Co. and GE after entering the gala in a glowing egg.
Guests included Goldman president and COO Gary Cohn, SAC Capital Advisors’ Steven A. Cohen, Maverick Capital Management’s Lee Ainslie, Sears Holdings’ Eddie Lampert, Highbridge Capital Management’s Glenn Dubin, Pilot Group’s Robert Pittman, Tudor Investment Corp.’s Paul Tudor Jones II and Guggenheim Partners’ Alan Schwartz.
The generous bigwigs coughed up $11 million in donations via credit card machines on each table to help Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans and fight poverty while the night took in more than $47 million. Bidding on a recording session with the Black Eyed Peas reached $400,000.
Unusually press-shy event organizers made sure in-house photographer Frank Micelotta didn’t issue any pictures of Wall Streeters partying. Instead the evening’s host Brian Williams and celebs like David Letterman, Naomi Watts, Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen and Kelly Ripa were photographed.
Tom Brokaw interviewed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen onstage, and Kid Rock performed with 300 military personnel in the aisles. A guest said: “It was incredibly moving and patriotic.”