Yeah and that entire amount was divided up amongst the two of them. /sarc
Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t hurting financially. At the time of the film, director James Cameron brought painter Robert Williams to the set and introduced him to DiCaprio who has since bought a number of his paintings (probably on the secondary market, as new works were bought/spoken for years before they’d even been painted).
$30,000 would be cheap for one of his paintings “new”.
If he wasn’t advocating that I do more “for the environment”, maybe I wouldn’t be so critical of what he does with his money. But if an elderly woman can’t make up the difference, it doesn’t really matter if it was $10,000 or $30,000 she’d still short.
Perhaps he can force her to auction off a few more of her Titanic trinkets and pick them up for a song.