Billy Joel Paid $2 Million for Private Gig

Last week Billy Joel helped New York hedge funder Thomas Kempner Jr celebrate his 60th birthday but it wasn't cheap. According to sources, Kempner's wife, Kitty, paid Joel $2 million to perform an hour and a half. A party goer told the gossip columns, "It was a lovely party . . . some of Thomas' family members made touching speeches, then Billy Joel played with his band for a long time. But it was amusing to see all the billionaires dancing to Billy's 'Allentown' about the depressed manufacturing industry. Nobody there would know anything about working at a steel mine unless they owned one."