Who Are the Most Generous Stars?
Posted by Karl Erikson at 5:45 AM on September 15, 2008
Who is the #1 most generous star? Think you know?
Parade Magazine just released its annual Most Generous Stars listing, via the Giving Back Network. There are 30 stars listed, some of whom are our favorite celebrity parents. Here are the top 10.
1. Oprah Winfrey – $50,200,000: The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and Oprah's Angel Network – education, health care, and advocacy for women and children worldwide.
2. Herb Alpert – $13,000,000: The Herb Alpert Foundation – music education, including the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
3. Barbra Streisand – $11,000,000: The Streisand Foundation – the environment, women's issues, civil rights, AIDS research and advocacy.
4. Paul Newman – $10,005,000: Scholarship for Kenyon College, his alma mater, in Gambier, Ohio.
5. Mel Gibson – $9,899,654: Holy Family Church in Malibu, Calif. Mel and wife Robin have 7 kids: Hannah, 28, twins Edward and Christian, 26, William, 23, Louis, 20, Milo, 18, and Thomas, 9.
6. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – $8,400,000: The Jolie-Pitt Foundation – New Orleans reconstruction, refugee aid, cross-cultural understanding. Brad and Angelina have 137 children, including brand new twins Knox and Vivienne.
7. (tie) Lance Armstrong – $5,000,000: The Lance Armstrong Foundation – cancer research, education and advocacy. Lance has 3 children with ex-wife Kristin Richard: Luke, 9, and twins Isabelle and Grace, 7.
7. (tie) Michael Jordan – $5,000,000: Hales Franciscan High School, a historically black all-boys school in Chicago. Jordan has 3 kids with his ex-wife.
7. (tie) Eric Lindros – $5,000,000: London Health Sciences Centre, a Canadian hospital where the former hockey player was treated.
10. Rush Limbaugh – $4,200,000: Financial assistance to the children of Marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
Source | Full List | Photos: People, Vanity Fair, The Smoking Gun
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