It-Ain’t-Trickin’-If-It’s-For-A-Good-Cause, Usher Pays $12K for Charity Puppy

It ain’t tricking, if it’s for a good cause. Usher Raymond paid big bucks at the ‘Pencils of Promise Gala’, this week in NYC. Shelling out $12,000 for a goldendoodle puppy, he outbid Jessica Szohr. Usher announced on twitter that he had named the puppy, Poppy:

Funds raised at the Gala the charity (Pencils of Promise) that builds schools in Laos, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Ghana.

[E!Online, Twitter]