$30K For The Sexiest Woman Alive -- A Bargain?

It's not everyday that you get a chance to go on a date with the Sexiest Woman Alive -- and one lucky businessman from Denver paid $30,000 this week to have lunch with the so-anointed Jessica Biel to help a Colorado teen who lost her leg in a prom-night auto accident.

Still, 30 grand for The Sexiest Woman Alive (according to Esquire magazine) seems like a relative bargain compared with what it can cost to get your fifteen minutes (or so) with other famous folk.

For instance, Anne Hathaway raised $40,000 last month for women's charities -- and the bidders only got her babysitting services. Meryl Streep, at the same event, drew $18,000 for a tea with herself at the St. Regis Hotel, but only after she bid $17,000 to, as she put it, "drink by herself."

Carly Simon famously raised $50,000 in 2003 for a lunch of PB&Js, a private concert, and, most importantly, the revealing of perhaps showbiz' best-kept secret -- the identity of the man who inspired her hit song "You're So Vain." Dick Ebersol, the NBC Sports honcho who bought the lunch, had to sign a confidentiality agreement to keep the secret safe.

Sports stars are apparently the big ringers of charity: Lance Armstrong got two people to pay a whopping $120,000 each in 2003 to take a bike around Austin, Texas with him to support the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation's good works. At the same Las Vegas event, a bidder paid $95,000 to get private tennis lessons with Agassi and his wife.