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Sheryl Crow is auctioning off her 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster. The singer is auctioning off the classic car next month and that the proceeds will go to the Joplin Schools Recovery Fund.

The singer has donated her 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 Sl Roadster to auction house Gooding & Co., with proceeds from the sale going to help rebuild the devastated city’s schools.

“After the tornado in Joplin, I was moved to help rebuild a city so close to where I grew up in Missouri,” says Crow. “My hope is that the auction of my 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster will bring in funds to help rebuild the schools in the area.”

Gooding & Co. says Crow’s car is white with a white hard top, black soft top and sport whitewall tires. The car, which the musician bought in 2005, is estimated to bring up to $100,000 when it goes under the hammer next month August, 11.

Joplin was left ravaged in May (11) after a massive twister ripped through the city and claimed the lives of more than 120 people.

A cosmetics ad that featured Julia Roberts has been banned in the U.K. by officials after a politician complained about the amount of airbrushing used on the image.

The ad claimed the foundation ‘recreates the aura of perfect skin’.

The Pretty Woman star appears in a campaign for Teint Miracle foundation by Lancome, which is owned by L’Oreal.

The beauty is seen digitally altered with flawless skin and youthful looks, with bosses claiming the product “recreates the aura of perfect skin”.

The complaints were brought by Lib-Dem MP Jo Swinson, who argued that airbrushing creates a false impression of beauty. Swinson stated “Excessive airbrushing and digital manipulation techniques have become the norm, This ban sends a powerful message to advertisers: Let’s get back to reality.”

Now bosses at the Advertising Standards Authority have pulled the ads in Britain after branding the images misleading.

Beauty firm L’Oreal has been forced to withdraw the images used in its Lancome and Maybelline magazine campaigns.