Room 23 Coffee Table Book to Benefit Charity, Feature Ludacris, Cindy Crawford, 98 More

Over the course of three months, one Beverly Hills penthouse suite played backdrop to 100 celebrities, all of whom were captured in lush, dramatic photographs by the renowned Deborah Anderson and collected into a slick, forthcoming coffee table book called Room 23.

The book's pages are a voyeuristic, exaggerated study of glamourized Hollywood with a day-in-the-life feel. Gina Gershon's mascara-smeared face is reflected garishly in a mirror; Ludacris' aviators glint as he takes a deep drag from a cigar; Cindy Crawford stands statuesque next to a spin-dial telephone in the center of the carpet.

As superficially celebrity-centric as it may sound, the arthouse book is not without a worthy cause. Proceeds from the book will benefit the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Project at the UCLA School of Law, which focuses on the use of law to end genocide and other global human rights abuses. Bosnian war refugee-turned-philanthropist Diana Jenkins founded the project and book in support of her longtime efforts to fight on behalf of international war victims.

The book will be available Sept. 8 at major retailers nationwide.

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