HOLLYWOOD - Brad Pitt was dismayed to discover photos of his Kenyan beach holiday withalleged lover Angelina Jolie earned a persistent photographer in excess of
$500,000--because the money could have been much better spent.
In an explosive and candid interview with Diane Sawyer on
Primetime Live, which was broadcast June 7, the movie
hunk admits he would have set up the shots himself if he knew the snaps would
be so lucrative.
He told Sawyer, "It's amazing, the bounty that is on my head and the lengths
that these people go to to get these shots, and the amount of money that
they're paying for these shots.
"It's something like half a million dollars or three quarter of a million
dollars for the shots.
"I can't help but think what that money could have gone to. Hell, I would
have set up the damn pictures myself."
Meanwhile, Pitt is known as Dabbo in the Ethiopian village where he's become a father
figure to kids hungry to learn--because locals are convinced he's called
Bread.
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The movie star has pumped his own cash into the community and Primetime Live's Sawyer with him on his recent trip back.
While walking down one of the makeshift streets in the shanty town on the
show, kids ran up to greet their American hero, unaware of his superstar status and started chanting 'Dabbo'. He explained, "The last time I came here, they kept thinking I was saying
'Bread', and dabbo means bread."
Pitt visited locals he has befriended, including two orphaned sisters
desperately trying to fund their education and a woman who was dying of AIDS
and tuberculosis in a tiny hut, while her daughter watched on helpless.
And he also took time to point out that it only costs $16 to fund a
child's tuition for a year in Ethiopia--"that's uniform and books".
The news special also featured a Pitt tribute from rocker Bono, who first
encouraged the movie star to get personally involved in the effort to help
struggling kids in Africa and raise awareness of the country's crippling AIDS,
poverty and starvation problems.
Bono said, "Brad Pitt is an extraordinary man. He's a gigantic movie star but
he's very modest... He said, 'I'd love to go to Africa.' People say things to
you but they don't follow through. He's following through."
In an interview accompanying the Primetime Live footage, Pitt admitted he has
taken life in America for granted for far too long and now feels compelled to
help Africans. He explained, "I try to picture what the evenings are like there and I can't
fathom it."
In the news special, the movie star also spent time with African prostitutes,
who constantly dice with death for just $2.50 a time. He asked Sawyer, "Is that with or without the contraception?"
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