The worst thing you can do is to give lots of money to poor starving musicians, because they have no idea of how to use it responsibly on the rare occasions they actually get rich. Take Anni-Frid Lyngstad (the brunette) of ABBA for instance. The now-reclusive singer for the Swedish megastars has been in court this week trying to bankrupt a predatory Chinese medicine man who she claims failed to pay back a $7 million loan to build a temple in her Nordic homeland. The healer, Master Marcus Bongart, claims she gave him the money as a donation, a claim Lyngstad has dismissed as ‘nonsense’.
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