Blind Item #7
Posted by ent lawyer at 8:30 AM
Labels: blind item
Crazy Days and Nights is a gossip site. The site publishes rumors, conjecture, and fiction. In addition to accurately reported information, certain situations, characters and events portrayed in the Blog are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Information on this site may contain errors or inaccuracies; the Blog’s proprietor does not make warranty as to the correctness or reliability of the site's content. Links to content on and quotation of material from other sites are not the responsibility of Crazy Days and Nights.
Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
26 comments:
Depp/Heard?
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt and all of Jolie's humanitarian work
Is this Brad Pitt and the homes in Louisiana?
@gauloise
+1
When are people going to realize that every celebrity charity act or especially "Foundation" is a scam?
Definitely Brad Pitt.
@davina - I would make a few exceptions to that rule, namely Gary Senise. He's the real deal. Love him.
To be different, Ashton with the mosquito nets etc.
@Ice Angel
+1
I can attest that 99% of charities are a scam, not just the celebrity ones.
I was on the board of directors of an A+ celebrity charity as well as others run by the 1%.
I saw them for what they are and ran far far away.
I raised a lot of money for these scams before I learned my lesson.
Well-known charities have asked me to sit on their boards since.
You couldn't pay me to be a part of it.
I stick to local animal charities and people right in my backyard who need help.
If we take care of people and animals close to home, there would be no need for these
money laundering ventures celebrities and the 1% call CHARITY.
We only donate to local charities - food banks, church groups, school fund raisers,etc.
just look at the running costs of the top charities, youll be amazed at the salaries and the expenses being claimed by the directors and other board members. Celebrity fronted foundations are tax avoidance schemes with a famous face. Fronts for buying property, art, making big donations to countries that you "adopt" children from etc.
It started with the Komen Foundation. That was the first "charity" that used MLM tactics to make money as a corporate entity and hide behind the Awareness label from doing anything good for the world.
@RJM
"Celebrity fronted foundations are tax avoidance schemes"
Not all, but a whole damn lot of them! Also, the largest charity scams have no celebrity attached to them at all.
I think St Jude Hospital is probably legit
@Morning Lorri - But do we need a foundation dedicated to "take a sad song, and make it better?" Or to "Remember, to let her into your heart..."
@Morning
By all accounts, the Shriners and St Judes are totally legit. Great charity.
See the need, meet the need. Charity starts at home. Be the change you want to see in the world. Platitudes get their start somewhere.
I can also vouch for the Shriners. They do good work.
Go to Charity Review Council, or something like that on the internet.
Type in the name of the charity.
It will give the breakdown of expenses, and rate the charity by how it spends its money.
+1 to ihavenocomment.
My friend was teaching overseas and found someone who was very ill and needed some desperate medical attention. He just couldn't let that person suffer, so he figured, I know! I'll just go to a charity! They have offices right here in town... (He lives in a big city overseas; millions of people) ...after all, they're here to help locals fight disease, poverty, etc. Surely they can pay for some life-saving medicine...
He managed to meet someone from one of the charities. (I won't name the charity, because they have a lot of lawyers on retainer to protect their reputations...so they can continue squeezing money from the gullible.) One day that person pulled up to my friend's apartment in a brand-new white SUV.
"Wow!" my friend said. "You must be the boss, riding around in a company car."
"Uh, not really," he said. "Anyone (in the firm) can get one. You just need to sign for it."
My friend got in, wondering if he was in the wrong line of work.
My friend was driven to one of the top hotels in the city. Imported luxury cars came and went, dropping off men in pimpy suits and designer shirts. They were accompanied by "models" of all kinds, women who were dripping with diamonds. These people were actually there for the charity luncheon, to try and wheedle some cash out of the foreign offices of famous charities.
My friend entered the hotel with the charity noob. It was the sort of place that embassy types and CEOs stay at. The bar was opulent, the interior was luxurious. The banquet room was like a party scene from a movie: the tables were "groaning beneath the weight of all that food." (This banquet was taking place in a country where a natural disaster could cause a famine and put millions at risk of starvation.)
As my friend wandered around, he saw men on their cellphones (they were new back in the late 90s) wandering around the corridors. Their Patek Philippe watches were glinting on their wrists as they called charity officials, demanding their share of the money. It was like watching a feeding frenzy, he told me later.
After the lunch, he had a private meeting with one of the junior officers of the charity. This junior officer had an impressive office; you'd almost think the charity execs were living high on the hog, spending donation money on office furniture and golf lessons.
My friend explained the tragic accident which sent a young girl to hospital in critical condition and he asked how he could get some money.
"I'm afraid you're not an organization," said the junior charity thief. "We don't deal with individual cases. We only write checks to local organizations. They know best how to spend that money."
My friend must've made some sarcastic comment ("Yeah, I saw their forty-thousand-dollar WATCHES!") because he was escorted out promptly.
You'll be relieved to know that, after weeks of spreading the word and pressing the flesh, he managed to get a few thousand dollars for this poor young girl whom others had lost hope for. But the entire episode confirmed my friend's worst suspicions about opportunistic charities.
Why didn’t your friend just reach out to one of the smaller local organizations, as suggested? Thats how they work.
Good on you. When we all know how to use these legal structures the same as them, but for good, we'll turn things around.
The only thing that's a scam is this site & the idiots that buy what he's selling.
Trillions have been donated to certain African countries over decades, yet there's still famine.
If that's not enough proof for charities being scams, I don't know what is.
Then donate to organizations the stress education over famine relief...or just let people starve, cuz you know, it ain't your problem, right?
Post a Comment