Arnold Schwarzenegger Pledges $1M for L.A. Wildfire Relief

Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a pledge of $1 million for Los Angeles fire relief.

“I don’t like when companies or rich people ask their fans to make their donations for them,” the actor wrote on social media. 

The donation will be split between the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation, the California Fire Foundation, and the L.A. chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Schwarzenegger also acknowledged that many of his fans have asked him how they can help, and he is therefore selling a shirt based on the knockoff bodybuilding t-shirts that many vendors sell on the Venice Boardwalk.

The "Terminator" star will donate 100 percent of the shirt’s proceeds to the same three organizations as his personal donation. Schwarzenegger is one of many to chip in big dollar signs for Los Angeles fire relief; DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and his wife Marilyn pledged $5 million to the Motion Picture & Television Foundation on Wednesday. 

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyoncé, Eva Longoria, and The Weeknd have also contributed major funds to similar organizations, as well as companies such as Disney, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Multiple southern California fires — including the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire — have decimated Los Angeles communities in recent weeks. 

Mandy Moore, Anna Faris, Paris Hilton, Bozoma Saint John, Jeff Bridges, Joshua Jackson, Billy Crystal, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, Cary Elwes, Diane Warren, Cameron Mathison, Ricki Lake, Jhené Aiko, Milo Ventimiglia, and record producer Lou Adler are among the Hollywood stars who have confirmed that they have lost their homes in the fires.