Some Weirdo Paid $81k to Kiss Elizabeth Hurley Kelly Conaboy · 09/05/14 04:20PM The New York Post reports a 27-year-old banker named Julian Bharti paid 50,000 pounds—roughly $81,000—to plant a gross, open-mouth-to-closed-mouth kiss on Elizabeth Hurley last night at an auction benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation.