More pictures from the YouthAIDS Life Project “tour” Salma did earlier this year in Latin America, along with some from a special screening of “The Vagina Monologues”. Click on the links or pictures below to visit the albums.

I’ve added 24 HQ pictures from an old press conference held for the YouthAIDS project. The event was held on May 3 earlier this year in Guatemala City, Guatemala. To view the full set of pictures, click on the thumbnails below.

Salma Hayek has dismissed reports that she has a $100 million fortune, and said if she did, she would retire and use the money to help the poor.

Local media in Mexico and Latin America reported this week that the Oscar-nominated actress had been ranked by Fortune magazine as the second-richest Latin American in Hollywood, with nearly half as much money as singer Jennifer Lopez.

“It’s a huge lie. It’s very, very far from reality. I don’t have that amount of money,” Hayek told Reuters, after reading an article in Mexican daily El Universal about a list of “Latino millionaires” in the United States.

“Somebody sent me it and I laughed. It’s a bit like a joke. Obviously I have never earned $100 million and I wouldn’t even want to,” she said in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home.
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On July 18, Salma attended the 2006 Summer TCA Press Tour to promote the new ABC series Ugly Betty. Salma won’t act in the show, but she is the executive producer. I’ve added 15 HQ pictures from the event which took place in Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California. Click on the thumbnails below to view the full set of pictures.

Salma Hayek started her acting career appearing in telenovelas. Now, the Oscar-nominated Mexican actress is bringing her own comedic take on one to network television.

Hayek is one of six executive producers on Ugly Betty, debuting Sept. 22 on ABC. America Ferrera plays Betty Suarez, a plump, decidedly unhip girl from New York City’s borough of Queens who works as an assistant to a fashion magazine publisher.

Asked whether the show’s title might offend viewers, Hayek said, “It’s sarcastic. Anybody who isn’t super skinny and really tall, some people think they’re really ugly. We’re making fun of it. We’re not really calling her ugly.”

The show is based on Yo Soy Betty La Fea, a Colombian telenovela. Telenovelas have been hugely successful in the United States on Spanish-language networks such as Univision and Telemundo.

“I’m sure that the American audience is very thirsty for something like this and they’re just going to love it,” Hayek said Tuesday at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting.

“It’s causing a lot of excitement in the Latin community. They will definitely not be able to get enough of this Betty.”