[Content Note: Human rights abuses.]
"Had there been knowledge of human rights issues any kind, Jennifer would not have attended."—Jennifer Lopez's publicist, in a statement to the AP, after Lopez received a lot of (well-deserved) criticism for giving a paid performance at the 56th birthday party of Turkmenistan's president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who has been "accused of committing widespread human rights abuses while ruling over" what Human Rights Watch calls "one of the world's most repressive countries." Whoops.
This is the same pathetic spin that followed Hilary Swank's participation two years ago in a celebration for Chechan leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who is, per Human Rights Watch, "linked to a litany of horrific human rights abuses."
Oh, if only we'd known! Someone please alert industry publicists that GOOGLE EXISTS!
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