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本帖最后由 luoyi0214 于 2009-11-9 02:08 编辑
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Michael Jackson was the king of giving, too
迈克尔杰克逊也是慈善之王
Michael Jackson left a philanthropic legacy almost as large as his cultural one.
In all the financial and personal turmoil that characterized his latter years, it was easy to lose sight of the fact that he was a pioneer not only in popular music but also in charitable fundraising within the entertainment industry.
Jackson, like his close friend Elizabeth Taylor, was one of the first entertainers to enlist in the fight against AIDS/HIV, and he went on to contribute and raise hundreds of millions of dollars to help sick children, set up scholarship funds and find new ways for entertainers to raise money and awareness for causes.
迈克尔杰克逊所留下来的慈善博爱与他的音乐遗产一样巨大。
因为他近些年财政和个人官司等的是非，让人们很容易忽略掉一个事实就是他不仅是流行音乐的先锋人物，他同时也是娱乐圈慈善募捐的先锋者。
杰克逊与他的好朋友伊丽莎白是第一个筹集捐款对抗艾滋病的艺人，他同时还不断的为病童筹集，捐款几亿美金，建立奖学金，并不断得找到新的途径筹集捐款和引起公众的重视。
He also helped set the standard of generosity for other entertainers, particularly pop stars. His song We Are the World, which he co-wrote with Lionel Richie in 1985 to help combat famine in Africa, was instrumental in changing the way rock stars generate funds for the causes to which they’re devoted.
As a brilliant showman, Jackson understood that the way to raise public awareness was to employ the joy of entertainment as the ultimate appeal to people’s consciences.
Noted veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman: “He let his actions speak for him, and those actions were big, grand gestures.”
他也为其他的艺人建立了慷慨的标尺和榜样。他的歌曲“世界一家”帮助非洲对抗饥荒。作为一个出色的表演家，杰克逊在娱乐观众的同时，也感染了大家对社会，公众的重视。
著名的好莱坞评论家Howard Bragman表示：“他让自己的行动为自己说话，而他的行动已经说明了一切。”
Before the financial woes that haunted him in recent years, Jackson was one of the industry’s most formidable philanthropists. For example:
He donated proceeds from the 1988 song Man in the Mirror to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a camp for children who suffer from cancer.
He equipped a 19-bed unit at Mount Sinai New York Medical Center for cancer research and donated part of the earnings from his Victory Tour to the United Negro College Fund.
He donated all the money he received from his Pepsi endorsements — $1.5 million — to the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, Calif. Jackson had been treated there when he was burned during the production of a Pepsi commercial.
Before a concert at Wembley Stadium in 1988, Michael met with Prince Charles and Princess Diana, handing over checks totaling more than $400,000 for the Prince’s Trust and a children’s hospital.
He founded the Heal the World Foundation to fight illness and poverty among children around the world.
He boldly joined Ryan White — a boy who was infected with HIV by contaminated blood transfusions — in his fight against the discrimination of those with AIDS at a time of great fear and dread over the AIDS epidemic. In 1993, Jackson was one of the stars to perform at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. Before he sang Gone Too Soon, he talked about the plight of those with AIDS and mentioned Ryan, who died of the disease in 1990.
在他的财政出现问题之前，杰克逊是这个世界上最慷慨的艺人，最令人敬佩的慈善家。例如：
他捐出了1988年镜中人“man in the mirror“这首歌的音乐版权给儿童癌症基金会。
他捐献特殊医疗设备给纽约癌症研究协会，并把自己胜利巡演的演出收入捐给黑人大学基金会。
他把百事可乐公司赔给他的烧伤赔偿150万美金全部捐给了烧伤救治中心。
在温布里1988年演唱会前夕，杰克逊会见了英国查尔斯王子与戴安娜王妃，并捐给他们基金会与儿童医院超过40万美金。
他成立了拯救世界基金会帮助全世界生病与贫穷的孩子们。
他勇敢的帮助艾滋病患者ryan white对抗疾病，为反对歧视艾滋病患者而战。1993年在克林顿就职典礼上，杰克逊谈到了艾滋病患者的困境，希望公众可以提高对疾病的认识与预防，同时纪念他因艾滋病在1990年去世的朋友ryan white.
Seven years later, the Guinness Book of World Records cited Jackson for holding the world record for the “Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star.” It’s unclear how much Jackson had donated over the years, but some estimates put the number at more than $500 million.
“A lot of the issues he shed a light on were issues that no one felt comfortable talking about at the time, like AIDS,” said.
“He was not the guy who would jump on the bandwagon. He was the guy leading the band.”
Jackson’s estate is expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars more over the years to come. If the will currently being treated by the courts as valid is sustained, it appears that at least 20 percent of the income on the trust will go to charity.
7年以后的吉尼斯世界纪录记载了杰克逊保持的“慈善捐款最多的艺人”的世界纪录。杰克逊在几十年里捐款数额很难计算，但是初步的估算已经超过了五亿美金。
“在很多没有人愿意提及的社会问题上，都是他最先带来了光明，例如艾滋病，”Bragman表示，“他不是那种跟着别人趋炎附势的人，他是带领大家的领导者。”
如果杰克逊的遗嘱法庭宣布有效的话，那么他遗产的20%还将继续投入到慈善上面。
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