Pop singer Billie Eilish instructed the billionaire class to offer their cash away as she accepted an award at a ceremony attended by tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg and others.
Eilish took to the rostrum on Wednesday night time to just accept her award for the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator Awards and used the second to rebuke these within the room wealthier than her.
“We’re in a time proper now the place the world is de facto, actually dangerous and actually darkish and folks want empathy and assist greater than, sort of, ever, particularly in our nation,” Eilish stated whereas accepting the Music Innovator Award.
“I’d say when you have cash, it could be nice to make use of it for good issues, possibly give it to some those who want it,” she added.
Eilish took it a step additional to particularly single out billionaires, a few of whom had been in attendance on the ceremony.
“Love you all, however there’s a couple of individuals in right here which have much more cash than me,” she stated. “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, however yeah, give your cash away, shorties.”
According to the New York Post, Eilish’s rebuke of billionaires obtained “laughter and applause from the viewers,” with Mark Zuckerberg reportedly withholding his claps.
Stephen Colbert and Billie Eilish attend the WSJ. Magazine 2025 Innovator Awards at MoMA on October 29, 2025 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards)
“The 41-year-old Facebook founder, in the meantime, is presently the third richest particular person on the earth with an estimated internet value of $257 billion, per Forbes. He was in attendance on the awards to assist his spouse, Priscilla Chan, as she was acknowledged as a 2025 WSJ Magazine Innovator,” famous the NY Post.
“Chan, 40, was honored for her work with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic group the couple based in 2015 that addresses societal challenges and works to treatment, forestall, or handle ailments,” it added.
“A WSJ profile of Chan printed forward of Wednesday night time’s award ceremony talked about that the billionaire couple has pledged to offer away a whopping 99% of their Meta shares to assist the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative all through their lives.”
Comedian Stephen Colbert, who hosted the awards, revealed Eilish donated greater than $11 million from her latest tour to numerous causes.
“Billie Eilish might be donating proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour to assist organizations, tasks, and voices devoted to meals fairness, local weather justice, decreasing carbon air pollution, and combating the local weather disaster,” stated Colbert.
“That donation, women and gents, might be $11.5 million,” he added. “That’s great. Billie, on behalf of people all over the place, thanks.”
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