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A beautiful red dress, worn by Nazanin Boniadi at the Emmy awards, is auctioning off right this moment on Ebay.Take a look
The stunning, raven haired co-star of the summer blockbuster film "Iron Man" wore the dress on the red carpet before auctioning it off. The auction is going until April 30, 2008.
Why? Because Akram Mahdavi needs donations to help save her life. The site is in Farsi, but hopefully an English translation will be up.
Akram was a 24 year old woman married to a 74 year old man with multiple wives. She filed for a divorce twice and was denied both times. After an ordeal with another man, she killed the husband. Akram is now awaiting execution.
Her story unravels much earlier though; at 13 years old, she was married to her first husband. After the husband married with another woman, she filed for and got a separation but with a 5 year old child in tow. Her first husband was also an addict (not sure to what drug).
After the divorce, her father married her off to this older man. By that time, with another child in tow, she had no idea that he had other wives.
In the end, she met a man she calls "Behnam" who after getting close to her encouraged her to do something about the older man. She resisted, but under threats by Behnam she committed the act. In the persian text it claims that Behnam threatened to kill her daughter if she didn't kill the old man.
