Christina Hendricks and 9 Other Celebs Who Take Drug Company Money
Mad Men's Christina Hendricks may be "officially" the most beautiful woman in America, and as an actress she can probably name her price for movies and TV rolls, but she's not above accepting a little sponsorship money from Big Pharma. Hendricks is a spokesperson for Latisse, an eyelash lengthening drug marketed by Allergan (AGN).
Here are nine other celebrities who have financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies »
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2. Barry Manilow - Sanofi
The crooner took part in a national awareness campaign for atrial fibrillation (Sanofi markets Multaq, and afib drug).
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3. Regis and Joy Philbin - Pfizer
After a day on the tennis courts, the Philbins are paid to say they take Advil to relieve their aches and pains.
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4. Gregg Allman - Merck
Allman works with the company and the American Liver Foundation to help raise awareness of chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
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5. Jane Seymour - Boehringer-Ingelheim
Seymour is the face of a European atrial fibrillation and stroke awareness campaign for the company. BI markets Pradaxa for afib.
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6. Chris Noth - Novo Nordisk
The Sex and the City and Law & Order actor is Novo's diabetes spokesman.
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7. Vanessa Minnillo - Bayer
Model/actress/whatever Minnillo fronted Bayer's Girlfriends for Folate campaign. Bayer makes the folate-enhanced contraceptives Safyral and Beyaz.
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8. Desperate Housewives' Dana Delaney - Pfizer
The actress is the face of Pfizer's "Women Move the World" campaign for OTC calcium and vitamin D supplement Caltrate.
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9. Eric Roberts - Genmed
Genmed hired Eric Roberts to talk up its "work to bring the most basic of generic medications to well over 6 billion people worldwide who currently do not have access to the most basic of drugs," according to a company release.
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10. Paul and Mira Sorvino - Sanofi
The father-daughter duo (he was in Goodfellas, she was in Mighty Aphrodite), feature in Sanofi's Diabetes Co-Stars campaign, talking about Paul Sorvino's type 2 diabetes, diagnosed in 2006.