GMA’s $20,000 or almost P1 million dinner at New York’s posh Le Cirque restaurant

PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo’s $20,000 or almost P1 million dinner at New York’s posh Le Cirque restaurant on Aug. 5 has landed her on “Page 6″ of the New York Post.

The Aug. 7 entry in the Post’s most-read gossip column said “Macapagal-Arroyo ordered several bottles of very expensive wine, pushing the dinner tab up to $20,000.”

EAT AND DRINK

August 7, 2009 –

THE economic downturn hasn’t persuaded everyone to pinch pennies. Philippines President Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was at Le Cirque the other night with a large entourage enjoying the good life, even though the former comptroller of her country’s armed serv ices, Carlos Garcia, was found guilty earlier this year of per jury and two of his sons were arrested in the US on bulk cash-smuggling charges. Maca pagal-Arroyo ordered several bottles of very expensive wine, pushing the dinner tab up to $20,000.