Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced a $1 million donation to Los Angeles fireplace aid on Tuesday.
“I don’t like when firms or wealthy individuals ask their followers to make their donations for them,” the actor wrote on social media. His donation shall be cut up between the Los Angeles Fireplace Division Basis, the California Fireplace Basis and the L.A. chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Schwarzenegger additionally acknowledged that a lot of his followers have requested him how they will help, and he’s subsequently promoting a shirt based mostly on the knockoff bodybuilding t-shirts that many distributors promote on the Venice Boardwalk.
The Terminator star will donate one hundred pc of the shirt’s proceeds to the identical three organizations as his private donation. Schwarzenegger is one in every of many to chip in massive greenback indicators for Los Angeles fireplace aid; DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and his spouse Marilyn pledged $5 million to the Movement Image & Tv Basis on Wednesday. Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyoncé, Eva Longoria and The Weeknd have additionally contributed main funds to related organizations, in addition to firms reminiscent of Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery.
A number of southern California fires — together with the Palisades Fireplace and the Eaton Fireplace — have decimated Los Angeles communities in current weeks. Mandy Moore, Anna Faris, Paris Hilton, Bozoma Saint John, Jeff Bridges, Joshua Jackson, Billy Crystal, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, Cary Elwes, Diane Warren, Cameron Mathison, Ricki Lake, Jhené Aiko, Milo Ventimiglia and document producer Lou Adler are among the many Hollywood stars who’ve confirmed that they’ve misplaced their properties within the fires.