Inside amfAR’s Cannes Gala With Leo Dicaprio, the Weinsteins, Justin Bieber and a $15 Million Wooly Mammoth (Photos)

Jessica Chastain admits “I can’t compete with these people on my independent film salary,” while one bouncy producer gloats “I got reverse mugged.”

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Behind several barricaded residential streets in Antibes, a peninsula about thirty minutes away from Cannes, an international cross section of rich-but-not-famous, famous-but-not-uber-wealthy, and the rare hybrid in the sweet spot of that glitzy venn diagram hunkered down Thursday night at the Hotel du Cap to raise $35 million dollars.

Thank artist Damien Hirst for nearly half of that and thank Robin Thicke and Lana Del Rey for performances.

Hirst dipped a wooly mammoth skeleton in gold to make the world’s most expensive extinct terrarium. No school field trips to the natural history museum for this piece of history. A bidder made the piece go extinct for $15 million.

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