Clinton earns 7.5 million USD from speeches

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Washington, June 15 (UNI) Former US President Bill Clinton, made nearly 7.5 million dollars from his speeches last year and sometimes earned as much as 3,50,000 dollars from a single appearance in gatherings.

Mr Clinton earned a staggering 6,50,000 dollars for just two appearances in two days before major gatherings in Canada, according to the financial disclosure report filed yesterday by his wife, New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

As a senator, Mrs Clinton was required to report her spouse's income as well as her own.

In 2004, Mr Clinton earned just 875,000 dollars from speeches as he recovered from heart bypass surgery and finished his memoirs. Last year, he made eight times as much on the speech circuit alone.

Spokesman Jay Carson said the former President had ''an exceptionally busy schedule,'' and paid speeches were sandwiched around charity work on global HIV/AIDS, childhood obesity and other causes.

''Between the foundation and work on Katrina and the Tsunami, paid speeches are actually a very small part of his schedule,'' Mr Carson said.

Since leaving the White House in 2001, the Clintons have become multi-millionaires. The bulk of that new wealth came from his paid appearances and both Clintons' book-writing deals.

According to the tax returns Bill, Clinton made 42 paid appearances around the globe. Gold Service International, a Bogota-based business development group, paid Mr Clinton 8,00,000 dollars for four days for his appearances in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil last June.

In September, he received 1,25,000 dollars for appearing via- videoconference from New York.

The senator's filing did not show how much Mr Clinton earned last year from his book, ''My Life'', though published reports said he signed a deal for 10 million dollars to 12 million dollars.

Last year, Mrs Clinton earned 8,72,891 dollars from her best-selling memoir ''Living History'', which is in addition to about 8.7 million dollars reported in prior years, according to media reports here.

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