Clintons $500,000 speech this week at Royal Albert Hall in London
London - Former American President Bill Clinton will earn approximately $1,500,000 for just three speeches in London and Dublin this month. This makes Mr Clinton, the highest-paid public speaker in the world. His fees can go up to $600,000 a time. Bill will be the first major American statesman to travel across the Atlantic since an alleged plot to blow up flights from the UK to the US was foiled.
Bill Clinton will be speaking about the threat of global terrorism and of his life in office at a seminar at the Royal Albert Hall on September 26. He will address leaders of industry and the public in what has been described in the promotional brochure as a 'lively discussion and debate' on current affairs, commerce and politics.
Tickets for Mr Clinton's speech will cost between $110 and $700 each. The venue he is speaking at seats approximately 5000.
Also on Tuesday, he will speak on global poverty and environmental issues to 500 very wealthy individuals, including the famous actor Michael Douglas and the ultra environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, who have paid $1,900 a head for the launch of Fortune Forum Summit - a nonprofit organisation aimed at influencing social changes.
On the 27th, Clinton will shoot over to Dublin and will be guest of honour at a lunch at the Burlington Hotel. Guests will pay $2000 for a pair of tickets. Tickets to Mr Clinton's events are usually bought by corporations as investments in employee morale-boosting.
The former President's money-making efforts have been so prolific it took just two years to pay off his legal debts after leaving office in 2001. A large portion of these legal debts came from his activities such as getting blown in the oval office.
Bill and his wife Hillary - a Senator for New York - own 2 very expensive houses, one in Chappaqua, New York, for Bill and one in Washington for Hillary's use. Bill's paltry $150,000-a-year pension would not cover the mortgages.
He negotiated a a $10 million advance on his memoirs - published in 2003 - and began a schedule of delivering 200 speeches a year.
Insiders say his prices varies between $200,000 and $600,000 and he keeps the cash for about a quarter of the speeches. The rest of the money goes to his Foundation, which has a budget of $40million a year raised from private donors. The rest are free, to support political causes or raise funds for other charities.
