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Beyoncé wracked up a healthy pay cheque for playing the role and has donated the entire $4million salary from the movie to the Phoenix House

Beyonce has become the latest celebrity to do her bit for charity in 2009 by donating her entire salary from her latest movie to a drug treatment centre in America.The If I Were A Boy songstress plays soul singer Etta James in upcoming movie Cadillac Records about the legendary singer's life. Whilst James found unbridled success in her singing career, the star was continuously in out of drug rehabilitation centres during the early 70s for her heroin addiction, leading to several arrests for forgery and drug possession. The star was even sentenced to drug treatment, evading a jail term.Beyoncé wracked up a healthy pay cheque for playing the role and has donated the entire $4million salary from the movie to the Phoenix House, a drug treatment centre where the star spent weeks preparing for the role.
The rehab facility runs 98 residential and outpatient rehab programmes throughout the U.S. and treats over 5,000 addicts a day.
'Without fanfare or publicity of any kind she has quietly given away millions to causes that move her. I don’t think she's ever before given away such a large amount to one organization but she clearly believes that many people, possibly thousands, would die without their help.
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Four students at Phoenix Academy a school for young people with substance-abuse problems appeared in court last night on gang-assault charges



Four students at a school for young people with substance-abuse problems appeared in court last night on gang-assault charges, a felony, in the beating of another student who was left unconscious.Police were called to the Phoenix Academy on Stony Street around 1:30 p.m. Friday after a staff member reported that a client had been assaulted.Several officers and detectives responded and charged Terry V. Rhymer, 20, of the Bronx; Travis Carter, 20, of Brooklyn; and Joshua Richardson, 20, and Olusegun Isijola, 17, both of Queens, with second-degree gang assault, police said.
The injured student was treated at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt.
Phoenix Academy is a partnership between Phoenix House and the New York City Department of Education.The suspects were being held without bail at the Westchester County jail in Valhalla.Last night, the four appeared before Judge David Zuckerman, who, for at least two of the men, approved their lawyers' request to continue the case to tomorrow, when a felony hearing will be held. The court dates for the other two were not immediately available last night.
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