Troubled man about town George Michael was apparently paid close to three million dollars recently to perform at a private party held outside of Moscow by some crazy Russian billionaire.

From Contact Music:

The huge fee for the hour long performance from MICHAEL means he is believed to be the highest paid entertainer in modern Russian history, beating CHRISTINA AGUILERA who was paid £1 million to perform at the wedding of Andrei Melnichenko in 2005.

An insider told the Daily Mail: “The businessman contacted George directly and asked him to perform. He has a vast private estate just outside Moscow and had turned his sports hall into a nightclub especially for the party.

“It was a fun night and George was back home in Britain by morning.”

MICHAEL, who has recently hit the headlines for being “unfit to drive” and being caught in several compromising situations, was flown out to the billionaire’s mansion to see in the new year, along with around 20 of his band, dancers and crew members.

Man, I’m going to be seriously pissed off if I find out that this party was held either yesterday or today and that I’ve already missed out on the best party of the year. In fact, the only thing that would make me even more pissed off is if they somehow got their hands on a print of the new Star Wars sequel “The Return of the Jedi” and screened it in Dolby Digital 2.0 afterwards.

Ba-Dum-Bum! Yeah, don’t worry. I’ll be here all night. Unless, of course, the Russians kidnap me and make me play Trivial Pursuit all night. The Grand Prize? My kidneys.