One-percenters united for Hope and Change.
Via Politico:
President Barack Obama has made plenty of enemies in Washington, but he can still count on his friends in Hollywood.
A-list movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith and Melanie Griffith shelled out for Obama’s campaign in the last three months of 2011, according to federal filings released earlier this week.
Among the host of other Hollywood donors who ponied up for the president: Peter Fonda and his daughter Bridget; Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon; Richard Dean Anderson, who’s best known as “MacGyver;” Ed Harris, Tate Donovan and Hilary Duff of the Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire” show.
Wendell Pierce, who played William “Bunk” Moreland in the HBO drama “The Wire”, soap opera star Deidre Hall and Jada Pinkett Smith are among the other actors who helped the Obama campaign haul in a hefty $40 million in the last three months of the year.
It’s not the first time stars have opened their wallets for Obama. A slew of other famous actors including George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Sharon Stone and Alec Baldwin lined the president’s campaign coffers earlier last year.
Michelle Obama attended a fundraising event in Beverly Hills this week packed with Hollywood insiders that brought in nearly $1 million for her husband’s re-election campaign, according to the Hollywood Reporter.