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Oprah, Will & Jada Smith, Penny Hardaway Top List Of Largest Celebrity Donors

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The Giving Back Fund’s third annual Giving Back 30, a list of celebrities who have made the largest donations to charity according to public records, was released in the November 1st issue of Parade magazine.

Paul Newman replaced Oprah Winfrey as the most generous celebrity of 2008. Oprah had occupied the number one spot by a wide margin for the first two years of the list. Before his death, Newman made a donation of nearly $21 million to his self-named Newman’s Own Foundation. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were second with a $13.5 million donation to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

Other notables on the list: Oprah Winfrey, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Penny Hardaway, Mel Gibson, Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as several authors, along with representatives from the NBA, NFL and NASCAR. The complete list is below:

1 Paul Newman $20,857,000
2 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt $13,420,688
3 Mel Gibson $6,491,833
4 Richard Childress and Family $5,000,000
5 Oscar de la Hoya $9,500,000
6 Oprah Winfrey $2,400,000
7 Sam and Lynn Waterston $2,100,000
8 Patricia Cornwell $2,000,000
8 Yao Ming $2,000,000
10 David Geffen $1,725,032
11 Barbra Streisand $1,670,295
12 Marcia Carsey $1,585,000
13 Leonard DiCaprio $1,500,000
14 Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith $1,486,000
15 Leroy Neiman $1,450,000
16 Dean and Gerda Koontz $1,400,000
17 Marc Bulger $1,342,000
18 Bob Barker $1,150,000
19 Nicolas Cage $1,076,800
20 Drew Barrymore $1,000,000
20 Jenny Jones $1,000,000
20 Jimmy and Donna Dean $1,000,000
20 Penny Hardaway $1,000,000
20 Roger and Chaz Ebert $1,000,000

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