BRAD AND ANGELINA GAVE AWAY $8M

Federal tax filings for the charity established by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt document the extensive work the two have done for those in need, with gifts and donations exceeding 8 million dollars.  People magazine says:

Pitt (gave) $4,402,317, and Jolie $4,123,613, the Huffington Post reports, citing newly released federal tax filings. (These latest figures don't include 2007 – in which, among other charitable efforts, Brad's Make It Right Foundation raised $5 million.)In terms of dispensing their funds, according to records for 2006, the foundation handed out $2,367,935, including $1 million to both Doctors Without Borders (International Division) and to the Global AIDS Alliance.Additional gifts included $137,935 to the Namibia Red Cross Action Program (their daughter Shiloh was born in the African country); $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation (the late journalist's widow, Marianne Pearl, was played by Jolie in A Mighty Heart); $100,000 to Global Green U.S.A. and to the Epidermolysis Bulloma Medical Research Foundation.In addition, $20,000 went to an art park in Los Angeles, as did separate $5,000 donations to two orphanages that Jolie had visited.

So does this make them better than me?  In one sense, yes.  In another sense, double yes.  But I'm still better than JLo, who once blocked the doors to an orphanage and then burned it down.  True story!