CELEB: STING
DICTATOR: GULNARA KARIMOVA
YEAR: 2009
In 2009, Sting was paid to perform at an Uzbekistan arts festival. The festival is a pet project of Gulnara Karimova, an aspiring singer, designer, jeweler, and the daughter of president Islam Karimova. She is described in a leaked U.S. Embassy cable as “the single most hated person in the country.” And that’s no small feat given that her dad ordered thousands of children into labor, authorized the mass shooting of demonstrators, and has had dissidents boiled alive. That said, we heard Sting totally rocked the house.
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