“Welcome to the party, friends!”
Emma Heming Willis, who is married to Bruce Willis, and Demi Moore, who is married to the “Die Hard” star, joined forces to celebrate the actor in Lower Manhattan Wednesday night.
Soho Sessions hosted an evening featuring performances by Keith Richards, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones and Warren Hayes to raise awareness for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD).
Willis, 70, who retired from acting in March 2022, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023.
He and Emma, 47, married in 2009 and have two daughters, Mabel (13) and Evelyn (11).
Willis and Moore, 62, were married from 1987 to 2000 and have three daughters: Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Talulah, 31.
The two women enjoy a close relationship and released a statement about Bruce’s condition along with their daughters.
Emma opened the night by telling the packed crowd: “Obviously I wish Bruce would have been here, but he’s here in spirit.”
She also said that when Soho Sessions founders Nicole Rector and Greg Williamson approached her with the idea of an intimate concert, she enthusiastically responded, “Hmm, yeah! Can we have a little fun?”
“As Bruce says, ‘Live.’ Let’s all continue to enjoy life,” she added, thanking AFTD for all they have done for her family.
Richards belted out three songs, including the Chuck Berry classic “Run Rudolph Run,” and told the crowd that he and the “Moonlighting” alum became friends when they were neighbors in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Other celebrities who enjoyed the cozy atmosphere included Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, Jeff Ross, Steve Guttenberg, Steve Schirripa, Samantha Ronson (who came with Moore), Andrew McCarthy, Gillian Martin, Richards’ wife Patti Hansen, and daughters Theodora and Alexandra. Richard’s long-time manager Jane Rose was also spotted gushing over her client.
Kevin Bacon and Kyla Sedgwick, who sat next to Whoopi Goldberg, were also in attendance.
A spy told Page Six that Sedgwick joked that Richards chose a terrible time to go to the bathroom when he went on stage.
