Just playing devil's advocate here:

If you re-read the first post, you'll see that she's selling the perfumes to "rich" people to raise money for her foundation In A Perfect World (www.iapw.org) so that IAPW can donate money to non-profit organizations that support their mission. (More than half the proceeds will go to IAPW.)

From the IAPW website: The Foundation provides financial and expert programmatic assistance to partner organizations. The first community-based organization partnership was formed with Free Arts Minnesota, an organization that provides free art classes to at-risk-populations of children.

Furthermore, I think some of you have the mission of IAPW twisted--again from the website: The mission of this foundation is to help children around the country become compassionate, socially-conscious, and responsible leaders.

I see nothing on there about helping hungry, hurting, lonely children. She's trying to changing the way people think which will hopefully, in turn lead to a better world.

The IAPW website also shows pics of Mani and the other Board of Directors from IAPW at different activities. While she may not be downtown at the women's shelter in the middle of the night consoling crying children, at least she shows up at the events and "gets her hands dirty" which is more that can be said for a lot of 'celebrities.'

Did Prince go down to New Orlean's after Hurrican Katrina and help clean up? No, he wrote a song instead and donated the proceeds. So why isn't anyone busting on his ass about not helping the crying children in the middle of the night? (Again playing devil's advocate.)

I agree with wonder505--while Mani does not deserve the Nobel Prize for her work, at least she's doing something. (Same with Prince.) Which is more than can be said for a lot of people--celebrities or otherwise.
[Edited 7/30/06 18:01pm]

Why don't you tell us how many $'s she has spent? Both on her organizations and herself.
[Edited 7/30/06 18:48pm]