Brad and Angelina Keep on Giving
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are showing no signs of slowing on their global goodwill tour.
The do-gooder duo made a $100,000 donation to the Daniel Pearl Foundation on Tuesday, which would have been the slain journalist's 43rd birthday.
Jolie and Pitt are currently working on a feature film about Pearl based on his widow Mariane's memoir, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl.
Jolie portrays Mariane in the film, which Pitt is coproducing through his Plan B production company. Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and eventually killed in Pakistan in 2002, where he had been investigating links between Al Qaeda and the country's Inter-Services Intelligence.
"On this day our thoughts go out to Danny's family," Pitt and Jolie said in a statement to People magazine. "The Daniel Pearl Foundation is celebrating this day, his birthday, with music festivals around the world. The festivals are a great reminder of not just Danny's work as a journalist but of his life and his love of music."
The couple and their children are currently on location in Pune, India, where scenes from A Mighty Heart are being filmed. Their visit has drawn the attraction of swarms of paparazzi, which resulted in an altercation between one of their bodyguards and a photographer over the weekend.
In a statement over the weekend, Jolie expressed her disappointment not to be filming in Pakistan, "a country I love and have visited three times." However, security concerns led to the production's move to Pune, which was selected for its resemblance to Karachi, Pakistan.
Meanwhile, though Jolie and Pitt have been on an altruistic roll over the past few months, questions have been raised over whether the couple is actually making good on all the donations they have pledged.
After their daughter Shiloh was born in Namibia in June, Jolie and Pitt pledged $315,000 to aid maternity wards at hospitals in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay as well as a local preschool.
However, according to Radar Online, the Democratic Resettlement Community preschool has yet to see any money from the celebrity pair, who promised the school $15,000 before they left Namibia and returned home to Malibu.
There was no word from the Jolie-Pitt camp with regard to the donation, but with all the giving the deep-pocketed duo has been doing lately, we're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Last month, the couple formed the Jolie-Pitt Foundation in order to give away $2 million to the humanitarian organizations Global Action for Children and Medicins sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.
Pitt has also vowed to support rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, and recently sponsored an design contest aimed at creating eco-friendly housing structures in some of the city's devastated neighborhoods.
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