MUMBAI: 51-year-old Sean Penn recently hosted a benefit for the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The event, called Cinema for Peace, was on the occasion of the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti.
 
Subtitled Help Haiti Home with Sean Penn & Friends, the event was supported by Penn‘s friends that include Bryan Lourd, a partner at CAA; Jeff Robinov, the president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group; Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton and film stars like Demi Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Josh Brolin and Diane Lane, James Gandolfini, Hilary Swank, Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
 
Ms. Roberts said that Mr. Penn wrote her a "very long, eloquent letter" inviting her to participate in the evening. "At the end of the letter, he wrote, ‘So, wouldya?‘ How could I say no? You can‘t say no. And this is nothing compared to what Sean does for all these people."
 
In one of the more reported moments of the evening, Penn was named an Ambassador-at-Large to the country.