UNICEF to Honor CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves at UNICEF Snowflake Ball, Presented by Baccarat, in Beverly Hills

UNICEF to Honor CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves at UNICEF Snowflake Ball, Presented by Baccarat, in Beverly Hills

Additional Tributes and Honors to UNICEF UK Ambassador Trudie Styler and Pacific Life Foundation

Sting, Chris Botti and Natalie Cole to Perform

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Leslie Moonves, Chairman, CBS, will receive UNICEF's Champion for Children Award at the first UNICEF Snowflake Ball in Los Angeles, presented by Baccarat. The event will take place on November 30, 2005 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel. Moonves will receive the award for his dedication to positively impacting children around the world.

Trudie Styler, UNICEF Ambassador, film producer, environmentalist and actor, will receive the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award for her longstanding commitment to UNICEF. It will be presented to her by Robert Downey, Jr. The award is bestowed upon an exceptional individual who has used her celebrity as a force for the survival, protection and development of women and children worldwide. Appointed as Ambassador for UNICEF UK's End Child Exploitation Fundraising Appeal in July 2004, she has raised close to $2 million for the campaign to protect millions of children from exploitation -- child labor, child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Early in 2004, she traveled to Ecuador on a fact-finding mission for the campaign and, in February 2005, she visited the tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka.

Multi-award winning singer, songwriter, composer and humanitarian Sting will perform with Chris Botti, internationally-renowned trumpeter and composer. Acclaimed singer Natalie Cole will perform as well.

UNICEF will present the Pacific Life Foundation with the Corporate Leadership Award, which honors a corporation or foundation dedicated to good will among all people. In the wake of the recent tsunami disaster, the Pacific Life Foundation made its largest single donation ever ($1 million) to support the UNICEF-led efforts in Southeast Asia.

UNICEF will celebrate the first annual Snowflake Ball in Los Angeles, presented by Baccarat, to benefit the organization's efforts to ensure the health, education, equality and protection of every child. Sharon Davis, Ghada Irani and Sandra Lee are event co-chairs.

The event will coincide with the Rodeo Drive Lighting Ceremony, presented by Baccarat and sponsored by the City of Beverly Hills, General Motors Corporation, FedEx and the Rodeo Drive Committee. The ceremony will include the lighting of 20 Baccarat crystal chandeliers lining Rodeo Drive, thousands of twinkle lights and will culminate in the lighting of the UNICEF Crystal Snowflake atop the Regent Beverly Wilshire. The 16-foot UNICEF Crystal Snowflake is entirely handcrafted using 12,000 Baccarat crystal prisms. Designed by acclaimed lighting designer Ingo Maurer, it made its debut in at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York in 2004. (This year's New York event, featuring a new Ingo Maurer-designed UNICEF Crystal Snowflake, incorporating 16,000 Baccarat crystal prisms, will take place on November 28.)

Leslie Moonves joined CBS in 1995 from Warner Bros. Television, where he was president. Previously, he was president of Lorimar Television when it merged with Warner Bros. in 1993. He joined Lorimar Television as executive in charge of the company's movies and mini-series and became head of creative affairs in 1988. Earlier in his career, Moonves was vice president of movies and mini-series for 20th Century-Fox Television. He is a member of the NCAA Advisory Board, a director of the Los Angeles Free Clinic, a trustee of the Entertainment Industries Council, the National Council for Families and Television and the American Film Institute, and is past president of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Moonves co-chairs the Los Angeles Museum of Television and Radio Board of Governors. Among his many awards are the 2003 Gold Medal Award from the International Radio and Television Society, the Casting Society of America's Career Achievement Award and the American Jewish Committee's Sherrill Corwin Award. Since joining CBS, Moonves has also been named Variety's "Showman of the Year" and Entertainment Weekly's "Most Powerful Man in Hollywood."

Styler, who has produced several documentary films on environmentalism, founded the Rainforest Foundation with Sting in 1989 in response to the continued violation of the rights of indigenous peoples and the wanton destruction of the rainforests in which they live. The Foundation's first major initiative was to campaign globally for the protection of the lands of the Kayapo Indians in Brazilian Amazonia. This resulted in 1993 in the legal recognition and demarcation of an area of more than 17,000 square miles as the Menkragnoti Indigenous Area. Together, Styler and her husband have raised almost $30 million for the Foundation.

Ticket packages begin at $10,000; individual tickets at $600. Please call Levy, Pazanti & Associates at (310) 201-5033.

About UNICEF

Founded in 1946, UNICEF helps save, protect and improve the lives of children in 158 countries through immunization, education, health care, nutrition, clean water and sanitation. UNICEF is non-partisan and its cooperation is free of discrimination. In everything it does, the most disadvantaged children and the countries in greatest need have priority. For more information about UNICEF or to make a donation, please visit http://www.unicefusa.org/ or call 1-800-4UNICEF.

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Source: UNICEF

CONTACT: Marissa Buckanoff, of U.S. Fund for UNICEF, +1-212-922-2485,
mbuckanoff@unicefusa.org; or In Los Angeles: Katy Sweet, of Katy Sweet &
Associates, +1-323-852-0772, katysweet@sbcglobal.net

Web site: http://www.unicefusa.org/

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