Libya: Celebs' Dollars From Gaddafi

22 October 2011

He may have been feared and loathed by some of his own citizens and leaders from the developed world, but there was a group of people who loved Col Muammar Gaddafi and his money.

Gaddafi, who was murdered on Thursday in his birth town of Sirte, lived large and when he wanted to be entertained, he did not turn on the radio or his TV, he got some of the biggest names in the world of music to do the job.

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