Amazing Grace Jones parties hard for her 62nd birthday

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It was battle of the divas when Cheryl Cole and Grace Jones performed at rival parties in Cannes.

Both collected very large cheques for singing for less than an hour between them at bashes on different sides of the French Riviera city.


Yes we Cannes: Grace Jones performs at the Belvedere bash

Cole, 26, walked away with £250,000 from jewellery brand de Grisogono for performing at their dinner party at the Hotel du Cap, while Grace Jones, who is notoriously difficult to persuade to appear, sang for an undisclosed fee at a party thrown by vodka brand Belvedere.

Jones, 62 today, was watched by an intimate crowd, including pop star offspring Julian Lennon and Coco Sumner and actors Dominic Cooper and Lindsay Lohan, during a set which featured her hit Slave To The Rhythm. She was due onstage at midnight, but finally appeared just before 3am.

Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding opted to wait to see Jones, rather than her bandmate Cheryl Cole.
Jones, whose rider included oysters, red wine and vodka and a separate car to carry her four hats to the venue, pleased the sponsors when she came onstage to declare: "Hello Belvedere, I love Belvedere."


Yes we Cannes: Cheryl Cole at de Grisogono's party

Meanwhile, a few miles away, Cole performed hits including Parachute and Fight For This Love, before an audience including Naomi Campbell, Paris Hilton and Myleene Klass.

Cole is also believed to have received a substantial jewellery gift from her hosts. She went on to party with will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas rapper with whom she has been recently linked.

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