Rocking out with Islam Karimovs’ Daughters

Here’s an amusing story out of the CIS today – it seems that Uzbek president Islam Karimov’s daughter, Lola, has made a big splash in the French tabloid world by paying Italian actress Monica Bellucci 180,000 euros to attend a party in Paris in order to “promote Uzbekistan.”

It seems to have definitely promoted UZbekistan, but perhaps not in the way Lola made it out on her reimbursement forms.

Also, isn’t it kind of uncool to have famous people come to your parties if you have to pay them 180,000 euros to do it?

Karimov’s other daughter, Gulnora, is already famous for (1) having appeared as one of the world’s worst daughters as tabulated by Foreign Policy Magazine, and (2) a heavily state-financed music career that led to the following music video that appears to have been filmed on a discarded Star Wars film set:

Who said studying Central Asian politics was boring?