Long before Dennis Rodman’s most recent trip to North Korea, his status as an incorrigible twit was pretty much beyond doubt. His blow-up on CNN this week, followed by the news that he had sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to Kim Jong-un—lover of American basketballers, executioner of uncles—was merely the cherry on the fruitcake.
The self-styled “basketball diplomat” is hardly the first celebrity to have befriended a dictator, of course. He’s not even the first to have sung a dictator ‘Happy Birthday’. Last year, Jennifer Lopez sung the tune to Turkmenistan’s Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov—who had recently been re-elected to the presidency with a telling 97 per cent of the vote—on the advent of his 56th birthday celebrations. (J-Lo has in fact made quite a habit of performing for despots and oligarchs throughout Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.) In 2011, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Hilary Swank and The Voice’s Seal attended the 35th birthday of Chechen strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, who is famous for, among other things, telling the campaigning journalist Anna Politkovskaya that her investigations into human rights abuses in the Russian republic rendered her “an enemy, to be shot,” which she later was. (“Happy birthday, Mr President!” Swank swooned.) In 2007—a bumper year for such performances—Nelly Furtado put on a private concert for Muammar Gaddafi and his family and Elton John performed at the birthday party of Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s son-in-law. The list goes on.
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