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Celebrity friends of dictators

You may not have heard of the dictators, but you've undoubtedly heard of some of the celebrities that have been criticised for rubbing shoulders with them. Can you name them all?
Answers are celebrities who are friends of, or have received substantial fees from dictators who have been accused of human rights abuses.
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This famous actress and singer performed for Turkmenistan's Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, singing among other things, "Happy Birthday Mr President!"
Jennifer Lopez
This basketball superstar became a "friend for life" to North Korea's Kim Jong-Un
Dennis Rodman
This "Karate Kid" star was one of several celebrities who was 'unaware' of Ramzan Kadyrov's human rights abuses during her attendance at his lavish birthday party
Hilary Swank
Whereas this top selling singer was 'well aware' of the Uzbek president's human rights abuses when performing for his daughter Gulnara Karimova
Sting
Spain's number one selling singer was criticised for performing for Teodoro Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea
Julio Iglesias
Bahrain's Abdullah al-Khalifa's friendship to this troubled music superstar came to an abrupt end with a sticky lawsuit for $7M over the recording of some albums
Michael Jackson
José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola paid $2M to this "Starships" singer to perform for him
Nicki Minaj
To her credit this singer of "Turn off the light" donated the $1M she received for performing for Colonel Gaddafi
Nelly Furtado
This British supermodel supposedly bragged about receiving a huge diamond from Liberia's Charles Taylor
Naomi Campbell
This "Godfather of soul" was one of many celebrities who performed at a concert for Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko
James Brown
This "Dallas" star had a huge fan in Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who paid him a bag of money for a giant poster of himself
Larry Hagman
This hip-hop artist was heavily criticised, this time for performing at Aisultan Nazarbayev's wedding
Kanye West
pctjunkie
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Level 89
Jan 20, 2016
Hagman, not Hangman.
HelveticaBold
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Jan 20, 2016
Thank you, fixed.
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