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Sarah Jessica Parker to host next Obama donor dinner

Sarah Jessica Parker and Vogue editor Anna Wintour are co-hosting a fund-raising dinner in New York on June 14. Sarah Jessica Parker is promoting the event with a new campaign ad for Obama.

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Sarah Jessica Parker arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit in New York last month.

Move over, George Clooney.

Sarah Jessica Parker (aka Carrie Bradshaw of "Sex and the City")  is co-hosting an Obama 2012 dinner in New York City on June 14 with Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

It will be hard for Sarah Jessica Parker to pull in the record-setting contributions (nearly $15 million) that the Clooney event did last month. Clooney's dinner came right after President Obama came out in favor of gay marriage. Are New York's glitterati more generous than Hollywood's? There's no question that the Obama campaign is now rolling out the celebrities as to boost the 2012 campaign coffers.

On Monday night, former president Bill Clinton was the headliner as Obama and Clinton raised at least $3.6 million at three New York City events.

The evening opened with an exclusive reception hosted by billionaire investor Marc Lasry. It was followed by a gala at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, where rocker Jon Bon Jovi was the headliner for a post-dinner concert. He sang the Beatles anthem "Here Comes the Sun." And the evening in New York closed with "Barack on Broadway" at the New Amsterdam Theater.

For their June 14 event, Parker and Wintour will reserve some seats for winners of a sweepstakes. Parker began promoting the dinner in a TV spot during the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night.

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