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Princess Stephanie bash helps to fight Aids

Fight AIDS Monaco staged its annual fundraiser dinner in Monte Carlo with Princess Stephanie leading the call for cash to fight Aids. Monaco's rich and famous are helping to fund the organization's project to build a house for those hit by the disease and don't have a home.

The facility, the first of its kind in Europe, is based in Housing Works in New York which provides housing, health care and support to homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. The Fight AIDS Monaco house will be built in Provence, France. some time next year. Princess Stephanie got involved with the cause in 2003 when a friend became infected with HIV. At the gala bash singer Patrick Bruel entertained the audience.

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