(MONEY Magazine) – They've got to rank as the most expensive business lunches ever: $54,000 each. That's the price per meal paid by an anonymous bidder at a recent charity auction for "A Year with the Titans"--10 lunches with some of the most prominent figures in business and finance. The menu includes Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, AOL Time Warner co-COO Robert Pittman, George Soros, Sandy Weill and Jack Welch.

Obviously, this wasn't your average charity event. The auction was part of the annual gala of the Robin Hood Foundation, a favorite charity of the hedge fund crowd and entertainment industry insiders. Jerry Seinfeld hosted; Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant sang; and one bidder paid $420,000 for a yoga package that includes a session led by Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. The entire $13.4 million raised will go to New York City poverty-fighting organizations because the fund raiser and all the group's administrative costs are covered by its board of directors. This merry band can afford it: The board includes legendary futures trader (and Robin Hood founder) Paul Tudor Jones II, former Soros chief trader Stanley Druckenmiller, Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone and Lachlan Murdoch (Rupert's son).

--SUZANNE WOOLLEY