I haven`t heard anything about this

This is the first I've heard of this. I think there may have been some sort of lawsuit around the Psychic Friends Network, but I've never heard of any such thing about her charity work.

Actually, I found this. I'm too lazy to cut and post the relevant part only, so I'm posting the whole bit:

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT DIONNE? Interview - Dionne Warwick
Independent on Sunday, The, Feb 23, 2003 by Stephen Harvey
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The negative publicity Psychic Friends engendered was especially unwelcome, coming as it did at a time when her charitable work was also the subject of public scrutiny. Dionne Warwick's commitment to democracy and good causes has never been in question. She is a friend of the poet Maya Angelou, and her role model was the late human- rights activist Ruth Jordan, the first black congresswoman to represent a Southern state. For Warwick - by contrast with the vacuous pronouncements of some of her fellow celebrities - charity work has been less an exercise in image enhancement, more a life mission.

But in 1993 the US network ABC aired a programme in which it was claimed that only $56,000 (pounds 35,000) of $2.1m (pounds 1.3m) raised by the Warwick Foundation had been presented to Aids charities. Dionne Warwick disputed these figures with some warmth, and delivered an emotional rebuttal of the allegations on The Geraldo Rivera Show.

"All I was trying to do was help people," she tells me.
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Just taking a flyer on this one, she doesn't strike me as a woman who would steal from the needy to line her own pockets.

"Please. That is the last thing I'd do."

"But do you think you might have been naive in terms of your organisational skills?"

"No. The fact is that if you don't have the expenses underwritten - the air fares, the hotel bills - where's that money going to come from? Ticket sales. What's left is what there is to give. It's very straightforward."

It can't help that some stars want first-class treatment even at a charity event.

"These are banal things," she says.

"Not when you're paying."

"Well if you're going to give your time - then make it comfortable for me, you know? Yeah, I want my limousine. And," says Warwick - who has somehow strayed from the initial point to a vehement inventory of her own travel preferences - "yes, I require - I require personally - a two- bedroom suite. I don't want anyone sitting next to me on the plane. I don't sit in a bulkhead seat. It has to be second row. Or the last row. It doesn't really matter."

"But never the front?"

"Don't ask me why. I just don't like it there."

"How do they cater for this in Southend?"

"I stay in London."

Any talk of Dionne Warwick and airline procedures invariably reawakens memories of that unhappy day in Florida, in May last year, when she was found in possession of a lipstick case containing what were described in the police statement as 11 "cannabis cigarettes". Somebody had placed these in her hand luggage and certain people, including the police, assumed it was her. The episode curiously echoed an incident involving her cousin Whitney Houston (who was never charged) in Hawaii, two years earlier.

Has the experience taught her anything?

"It taught me never to carry an open bag," she says. "What was found was not there when I packed it. It had to have happened between the time I put it on the belt and walked through security."

She avoided going to court, I recall, by plea-bargaining.

I think anybody who's desparate enough to open a Psychic line biz can go as far as stealing from a charity.

All the odds were against her from the day she started to pull a Mis Cleo.

Bliss her heart though.

FOUND THIS ON WIKIPEDIA.. and I believe it..

In 1993, on ABC's Day One, a primetime news magazine hosted by Forrest Sawyer, claimed that Dionne Warwick had managed to pass on only $56,000 from $2.1 million her Warwick Foundation had raised for AIDS charities from an extravagant benefit concert, That's What Friends Are For: AIDS Concert '88, held June 12, 1988 at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. The concert had appearances by celebrities and entertainers including Byron Allen, Burt Bacharach, Expose, Howard Hewett, Lena Horne, Elton John, George Kirby, Gladys Knight, Barry Manilow, Sugar Ray Leonard, Holly Robinson, Yakov Smirnoff, Robert Townsend, Leslie Uggams, Blair Underwood, Luther Vandross, Mary Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Stevie Wonder and then House Speaker Jim Wright.[1] This never made it to court, and Warwick vigorously disputed the figures. When asked about it, she explained: "If you're going to give your time, then make it comfortable for me, you know?" She said she needed a limousine and a two-bedroom hotel suite, and she didn't want anyone next to her on the plane.[2]

On March 17, 1990, That's What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert, an AIDS benefit held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. One month later, CBS aired a two-hour version of the concert on television. The celebrity guests and Arista label performers were: Air Supply, Lauren Bacall, Burt Bacharach, Eric Carmen, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Clive Davis, Taylor Dayne, Michael Douglas, Expose, Whoopi Goldberg, Melanie Griffith, Hall & Oates, Jennifer Holliday, Whitney Houston, Alan Jackson, Kenny G, Melissa Manchester, Barry Manilow, Jeffrey Osborne, Carly Simon, Patti Smith, Lisa Stansfield, The Four Tops, Milli Vanilli and Dionne Warwick. "That's What Friends Are For" was the finale song sung by Warwick and cousin Houston before being joined on the stage by the other guests of the event. Over $2.5 million was raised that night for the Arista Foundation which gave the proceeds to various AIDS organizations.


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