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LONDON (Reuters) - Singers Beyonce and Mariah Carey hit sought to indifference themselves from the rotten African leader Muammar Gaddafi, for whose entourage they both performed at glitzy New Year's eve parties.

They connected Canadian creator Nelly Furtado, who utilised her Twitter statement on Monday to tell she would provide absent the $1 meg she conventional to action a 45-minute ordered in Italy for Gaddafi's kinsfolk in 2007.

Pop stars' connexion with Gaddafi and his sons has caused goodish embarrassment this hebdomad as the African ruler orders a brutal crackdown on an uprising against his rule.

The penalization advise has highlighted how artists including Beyonce and Carey hit attained large paydays for sometimes short appearances at lavish parties hosted by Gaddafi kinsfolk members, including his son Muatassim. The stars hit faced calls from fans and the public to provide backwards the money they made.

Beyonce said she donated the change she attained at a private band on the Caribbean island of St. Barts on New Year's Eve, 2009 to earthquake comfort efforts in Haiti after learning the advertizer had links to Gaddafi.

"Once it became famous that the ordinal band advertizer was linked to the Qaddafi (Gaddafi) family, the selection was prefabricated to put that commercialism to a beatific cause," she said in a statement posted on her website.

On Thursday, Carey confirmed she had performed at a kindred duty "thrown by the sons of vicious, crazy dictator" Gaddafi and spoken her embarrassment, although she stopped short of auspicious to provide the change attained to charity.

A statement on her website said: "At the time, Libya was not in the news...Now it's become an issue in hindsight, which is variety of ridiculous."

She added that she would donate the proceeds from a new song "Save the Day" for some "human rights issues" and stressed her previous benevolence work.

"I was naive and unmindful of who I was booked to action for," she said.

"I see horrible and ashamed to hit participated in this mess. Going forward, this is a warning for all artists to see from. We need to be more aware and verify more domain regardless of who books our shows.

"Ultimately we as artists are to be held accountable."

The International Criminal Court functionary said on weekday that Gaddafi, his sons and members of their intrinsic lot could be held responsible for crimes by their security forces.

The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Gaddafi and his kinsfolk on Saturday, and referred Libya's crackdown on demonstrators to the court.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)