Celebrities have the unique ability to make people aware of things they wouldn’t hear about - and oftentimes wouldn’t care about - without them, like Hayden Panettiere encouraging teens to vote or riding out to save the dolphins, or Jennifer Garner giving flu vaccines. Jessica Biel did just that, by helping out one girl who probably had the worst prom ever.

In 2006, Molly Bloom lost her leg and part of her pelvis when she was hit by a stretch hummer limousine and dragged 38 feet following Prom. Jessica, who’s probably best known as Esquire Magazine’s “Sexiest Woman Alive” or as “Mary Camden” from the long-running TV show, “Seventh Heaven,” who is a native of Boulder, Colorado came up with the idea to hold a fundraiser lunch-auction.

The charity-auction brought in a total of $38,000 to help Molly’s family with medical expenses. Jonathon Biel, Jessica’s father, said she “has this opportunity to create a buzz that would provide some support and she’s more than happy to do that,” and added that it was his daughter’s idea to hold the lunch date.

A young man, John, bid $30,000 (to outbid another’s bid of $23,500) to go on a lunch date with Jessica. “I’m a senior vice president for an oil company and gas company in Denver.”

It may sound like a lot of money to go on a date, but note two things: it’s for Jessica Biel, and it was for a good cause.

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