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Michael Jackson was the king of giving, too
邁克爾傑克遜也是慈善之王

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.

邁克爾傑克遜所留下來的慈善博愛與他的音樂遺產一樣巨大。
因為他近些年財政和個人官司等的是非，讓人們很容易忽略掉一個事實就是他不僅是流行音樂的先鋒人物，他同時也是娛樂圈慈善募捐的先鋒者。
傑克遜與他的好朋友伊莉莎白是第一個籌集捐款對抗愛滋病的藝人，他同時還不斷的為病童籌集，捐款幾億美金，建立獎學金，並不斷得找到新的途徑籌集捐款和引起公眾的重視。

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.”

他也為其他的藝人建立了慷慨的尺規和榜樣。他的歌曲“世界一家”幫助非洲對抗饑荒。作為一個出色的表演家，傑克遜在娛樂觀眾的同時，也感染了大家對社會，公眾的重視。
著名的好萊塢評論家Howard Bragman表示：“他讓自己的行動為自己說話，而他的行動已經說明了一切。”

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.


在他的財政出現問題之前，傑克遜是這個世界上最慷慨的藝人，最令人敬佩的慈善家。例如：

他捐出了1988年鏡中人“man in the mirror“這首歌的音樂版權給兒童癌症基金會。
他捐獻特殊醫療設備給紐約癌症研究協會，並把自己勝利巡演的演出收入捐給黑人大學基金會。
他把百事可樂公司賠給他的燒傷賠償150萬美金全部捐給了燒傷救治中心。
在溫布裏1988年演唱會前夕，傑克遜會見了英國查理斯王子與戴安娜王妃，並捐給他們基金會與兒童醫院超過40萬美金。
他成立了拯救世界基金會幫助全世界生病與貧窮的孩子們。
他勇敢的幫助愛滋病患者ryan white對抗疾病，為反對歧視愛滋病患者而戰。1993年在克林頓就職典禮上，傑克遜談到了愛滋病患者的困境，希望公眾可以提高對疾病的認識與預防，同時紀念他因愛滋病在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年以後的吉尼斯世界紀錄記載了傑克遜保持的“慈善捐款最多的藝人”的世界紀錄。傑克遜在幾十年裏捐款數額很難計算，但是初步的估算已經超過了五億美金。
“在很多沒有人願意提及的社會問題上，都是他最先帶來了光明，例如愛滋病，”Bragman表示，“他不是那種跟著別人趨炎附勢的人，他是帶領大家的領導者。”
如果傑克遜的遺囑法庭宣佈有效的話，那麼他遺產的20%還將繼續投入到慈善上面。

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/6520065.html