Fonda Needs Harvard Cash After Investment Crash (don't fall out of your seat laughing alert)

Internet Movie Database ^ | February 12, 2003

[Paul Atreides]

Jane Fonda withdrew her multi-million dollar grant to Harvard University, because the value of her divorce settlement has collapsed. Fonda reneged on her promise to provide the Ivy League university with $12.5 million last week and expects to be handed back approximately half of her original donation. The veteran actress divorced billionaire Ted Turner two years ago and was presented with a healthy divorce settlement. However her money was linked to the stock market which has been on a downward spiral ever since and her lucrative windfall is now considerably slimmer.

[Dick Bachert]

You mean Jane MIGHT have to let one of the SERVANTS GO???

Oh, God, SAY IT ISN'T SO!

[donozark]

Couldn't happen to a nicer Commie!

[oldvike]

I thought liberal commies didn't care about money?

[RonF]

I'm not laughing at the concept of Jane Fonda needing money. I'm laughing at the concept of her imagining that Harvard will give her any money back. I don't think it's likely.

[xJones]

You mean Jane MIGHT have to let one of the SERVANTS GO???

Brace yourself, it get worse. Hanoi Jane pledged her money to Harvard's Graduate School of Education, ending the school's plans for a major research center on gender in education.

[Camachee]

I thought liberal commies didn't care about money?

They don't care how they spend YOUR money.

[camle]

not to worry. I'm sure that Saddam has some SUV cash to give her for supporting him.

[mabelkitty]

That money is long gone. She can't exactly make a stink about it, either.

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[monocle]

The VRWC is alive and well.

[xJones]

Here's the link: Boston Globular.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm laughing at the concept of Jane needing money.

If she was on her hands and knees in the streets begging, I would kick her in the face and tell her to go ask the Vietnam vets or the aborted babies for the money.

[NC Conservative]

I thought liberal commies didn't care about money?

Care about theirs. Not yours.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

[Pan_Yans Wife]

That's just the problem, she isn't letting the servant go, just failing to fullfil a promise, to the University. This shows how shallow she really is. She could SELL SOME ASSETS to be able to give the money to the college, but she isn't. I don't care what the donation was for, she promised it, and is being really sleazy, now.

[geedee]

Now, now, Paul, you know the rules. No Hanoi Jane articles without the requisite photos.

[Samwise]

Didn't her hubby promise to dive the U.N. a bunch of money? I wonder if he made good on that promise.

[gridlock]

Didn't her hubby promise to dive the U.N. a bunch of money? I wonder if he made good on that promise.

Wonder no more...

Ted's (Turner) Terrible Troubles

To quote:

Needless to say, Turner's money woes don't bode well for his myriad philanthropic activities (for instance, he may be forced to extend that U.N. payment schedule by a few years). Gloom is descending on everybody from U.N. bureaucratic hacks to scruffy tree huggers. Ted's liberal do-gooder spendthrift days seem to be on hold until the U.S. economy improves. "As soon as the stock market rebounds, we really want to get back in the game," Devon Finley, a program officer at the Turner Foundation, told the Portland Oregonian.

[dighton]

Perhaps Harvard will take some of these.