New York: When Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen and his actress wife Isla Fisher donated $500,000 to the International Rescue Committee this week, they wanted to help desperate refugees fleeing conflict in Syria.
But what the generous couple may not have known is that their donation will not even have been enough to pay the salary of the American charity’s boss, David Miliband.
I can disclose that the Blairite former Foreign Secretary, was allocated a staggering $600,000 [£425,000] per year by International Rescue.
It dwarfs the $413,000 paid to his predecessor, George Rupp, and is almost three times the £142,500 paid to our Prime Minister.
Miliband’s pay has been declared publicly for the first time at the Charities Bureau in New York, where International Rescue is based.
It says he works 37½ hours a week, but the charity could not be reached for further comment.
If he were still Foreign Secretary, he would be paid a relatively lowly £134,565.
The charity cash is not Miliband’s only income, however, as he is thought to have rented out his £3 million home in London’s Primrose Hill since moving to New York in 2013 with his wife, American violinist Louise Shackelton, and their two adopted children.
The couple could expect to receive £6,750 a month, or £81,000 a year, in rental.
David inherited the four-bedroom Georgian property from his father, Marxist historian Ralph Miliband, in 1994.
David and his brother, former Labour leader Ed, used a deed of variation to their father’s will that moved a share of the ownership of the family home into their names.
Such deeds are often used to avoid inheritance tax. Ed later sold his share of the property to David.
International Rescue is supported by hefty donations from Miliband’s old pal George Soros, the financier who ‘broke’ the Bank of England on Black Wednesday in 1992 when his speculation on the pound was blamed for forcing the Government to pull out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
It is said that Soros would welcome Miliband’s return to British politics. But could David afford the dramatic drop in income?
Twinkly TV presenter Christine Bleakley is clearly an exemplary stepmother — she and former England footballer Frank Lampard have taken his daughters by his ex-fiancee, Spanish model Elen Rivas, with them on honeymoon.
It’s good of Elen to allow Luna, ten, and Isla, eight, to spend Christmas with the couple in Dubai.
After all, three years ago the model, 40, accused Lampard online of ‘trying to stop his children speaking to their mother at Christmas’.
Christine, 36, replied: ‘I’d happily put the record straight, but don’t think Twitter is a place to do it when children are involved.’
He survived the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini over his ‘blasphemous’ novel The Satanic Verses, but Sir Salman Rushdie can no longer put up with the morons’ forum that is Twitter.
The Booker Prize-winning author has told his 1.3 million followers on the micro-blogging website that he is quitting for ‘quite a while’.
He earlier described the site as ‘essentially frivolous’ and said it created ‘noises in your head that you don’t need’.
While most of us regret eating one mince pie too many, Britain’s most body-beautiful couple have no such concerns.
In a bandeau bikini, Marks & Spencer model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 28, showed she hadn’t over-indulged at Christmas as she enjoyed a beach stroll and swim in Thailand with Hollywood action man Jason Statham, 48.
Devon-born Rosie lives in California with Jason and domestic bliss is upset only by disputes over who puts out the rubbish.
‘I get told off for saying: “It’s a man’s job!” ’ she said.
‘And he goes: “Well then, ironing’s a woman’s job.” ’
Accused of racism over his 30-year-old comments about aid for black entrepreneurs, Oliver Letwin has a chance to make amends.
His first public event in the New Year is the keynote speech to Bright Blue, a think tank for ‘liberal conservatism’, at London’s Guildhall. The title of his talk? Opportunity For All.
But what the generous couple may not have known is that their donation will not even have been enough to pay the salary of the American charity’s boss, David Miliband.
I can disclose that the Blairite former Foreign Secretary, was allocated a staggering $600,000 [£425,000] per year by International Rescue.
It dwarfs the $413,000 paid to his predecessor, George Rupp, and is almost three times the £142,500 paid to our Prime Minister.
Miliband’s pay has been declared publicly for the first time at the Charities Bureau in New York, where International Rescue is based.
It says he works 37½ hours a week, but the charity could not be reached for further comment.
If he were still Foreign Secretary, he would be paid a relatively lowly £134,565.
The charity cash is not Miliband’s only income, however, as he is thought to have rented out his £3 million home in London’s Primrose Hill since moving to New York in 2013 with his wife, American violinist Louise Shackelton, and their two adopted children.
David inherited the four-bedroom Georgian property from his father, Marxist historian Ralph Miliband, in 1994.
David and his brother, former Labour leader Ed, used a deed of variation to their father’s will that moved a share of the ownership of the family home into their names.
Such deeds are often used to avoid inheritance tax. Ed later sold his share of the property to David.
International Rescue is supported by hefty donations from Miliband’s old pal George Soros, the financier who ‘broke’ the Bank of England on Black Wednesday in 1992 when his speculation on the pound was blamed for forcing the Government to pull out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
It is said that Soros would welcome Miliband’s return to British politics. But could David afford the dramatic drop in income?
Twinkly TV presenter Christine Bleakley is clearly an exemplary stepmother — she and former England footballer Frank Lampard have taken his daughters by his ex-fiancee, Spanish model Elen Rivas, with them on honeymoon.
It’s good of Elen to allow Luna, ten, and Isla, eight, to spend Christmas with the couple in Dubai.
After all, three years ago the model, 40, accused Lampard online of ‘trying to stop his children speaking to their mother at Christmas’.
Christine, 36, replied: ‘I’d happily put the record straight, but don’t think Twitter is a place to do it when children are involved.’
He survived the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini over his ‘blasphemous’ novel The Satanic Verses, but Sir Salman Rushdie can no longer put up with the morons’ forum that is Twitter.
The Booker Prize-winning author has told his 1.3 million followers on the micro-blogging website that he is quitting for ‘quite a while’.
He earlier described the site as ‘essentially frivolous’ and said it created ‘noises in your head that you don’t need’.
While most of us regret eating one mince pie too many, Britain’s most body-beautiful couple have no such concerns.
In a bandeau bikini, Marks & Spencer model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 28, showed she hadn’t over-indulged at Christmas as she enjoyed a beach stroll and swim in Thailand with Hollywood action man Jason Statham, 48.
Devon-born Rosie lives in California with Jason and domestic bliss is upset only by disputes over who puts out the rubbish.
‘I get told off for saying: “It’s a man’s job!” ’ she said.
‘And he goes: “Well then, ironing’s a woman’s job.” ’
Accused of racism over his 30-year-old comments about aid for black entrepreneurs, Oliver Letwin has a chance to make amends.
His first public event in the New Year is the keynote speech to Bright Blue, a think tank for ‘liberal conservatism’, at London’s Guildhall. The title of his talk? Opportunity For All.
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