Top Ten Richest Celebrities Supporting ‘Occupy Wall Street’
- Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:06am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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The Blaze thought it might be interesting to take a look at some of Occupy Wall Street’s wealthiest celebrity supporters. Given that OWS “are the 99%,” and, given the movement’s general distaste for “the other 1%,” we wonder how enjoying support from the wealthy elite jibes with movement’s core principles.
It is difficult to gauge who is most hypocritical in this instance — the wealthy “1%’ers” supporting a movement that claims to revile everything celebrity represents, or OWS protesters for “selling out” and accepting help from the purported “enemy.”
Perhaps the greatest, and, most obvious hypocrisy of all is that, unless born into privilege — as is the case with some of our celebrities below — it can be argued that none of these high net-worth individuals would be where they are today without having availed themselves of the advantages of capitalism.
Here is a list of the 10 wealthiest celebrities supporting Occupy Wall Street. According to Celebrity Networth, the site that compiled the list, they have a combined net worth of $1.255 billion.
#1 Yoko Ono Net Worth – $500 million
Probably most ironic of all, is that Ono is a descendant of the prestigious Yasuda banking family, as well as a 9th century Emperor of Japan. She also attended Gakushuin, one of Japan’s most exclusive schools.
Ono stated “I love ‘Occupy Wall Street’! John is sending his smile to ‘Occupy Wall Street.’ I am sending my love to ‘Occupy Wall Street.’ We are all working together. ”
#2 Russell Simmons Net Worth – $325 million 
Networth reminds that, in addition to being a music mogul and best-selling author, Simmons is the founder of a fee-based credit card company called UniRush Financial Services. But isn‘t the financial services industry to blame for the nation’s economic demise?
#3 Roseanne Barr Net Worth – $80 million
Barr, who thinks that bankers earning over $100 million should be beheaded, obviously thinks she escaped the guillotine by earning a meager $80 million.
#4 Deepak Chopra Net Worth – $80 million 
Chopra is another on our list who was born into privilege. His father, Krishan Chopra, was a prominent Indian cardiologist and head of the department of medicine and cardiology at Mool Chand Khairati Ram Hospital in New Delhi. Chopra’s father was also a lieutenant in the British army.
Chopra, who said OWS is “turning anger into awareness” has amassed quite the fortune from his numerous best-selling self-help books, as well as from the services offered at his luxurious Chopra Center spa and treatment center — where workshops, seminars and the “Journey into Healing” — meant to help anyone, are priced out of reach for just about everyone.
#5 Kanye West Net Worth – $70 million
West, who grew up in a quaint, middle class suburb of Chicago, has an entrepreneurial side. While not completely successful, his company, KW Foods LLC, bought the rights to the Fatburger hamburger chain in Chicago with plans to open up ten locations. Additionally, West launched his own fashion line in addition to collaborating with Nike on the release of his own shoe, Air Yeezys. Is West “selling out” with his ever-growing commercial empire?
#6 Alec Baldwin Net Worth – $65 million 
Perhaps best of all is that in February 2009, Baldwin actually called on lawmakers to extend New York’s tax break for the film and television industry, stating that if the “…tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse and television production is going to collapse and it’s all going to go to California.”
So tax breaks are O.K. then?
#7 Susan Sarandon Net Worth – $50 million
Sarandon popped by OWS en route to Italy.
‘”I’m just here to be educated and offer my support. There’s a lot of different kinds of people here who want to shift the paradigm to something that’s addressing the huge gap between the rich and the poor.”
That gap is made abundantly clear when one peruses Sarandon’s $1.75 million Manhattan penthouse.
#8 Michael Moore Net Worth – $50 million 
An extensive interview with The Guardian in 2004 revealed that, not only has Moore sent his daughter to private school, but that he often travels with body guards and lives in million-plus-dollar residences in NYC’s Upper West Side (at the time of interview) and in Michigan.
The Guardian noted that, although Moore consistently refers to himself as “working-class,” he in fact grew up in a middle-class suburb of Flint, in a two-car family where his father golfed, retired in his fifties, and was financially comfortable enough to send his three children to college.
Perhaps most damning of all, however, was the following passage where Moore’s former manager called the “Fahrenheit 911” maker “money-obsessed”:
Moore’s employers were confronted with ever more regal demands. He insisted that Channel 4 house him at the Ritz when he worked in England on The Awful Truth, a fact he now portrays as the revenge of the working class against corporate might. Meanwhile employees grumbled. ‘He’s a jerk and a hypocrite and didn’t treat us right and he was false in all of his dealings,’ said one former worker. His former manager, Douglas Urbanski, has said that Moore ‘was the most difficult man I’ve ever met… he’s money-obsessed’.
#9 Tim Robbins Net Worth – $50 million
According to public records uncovered in The Daily Beast, the UCLA film school graduate shockingly contributed some $5,000 to Republican candidates in 2006 including Tea Party icon Michele Bachmann.
#10 Nancy Pelosi Net Worth – $35.5 million 
Pelosi, whose father was a U.S. congressman and former mayor of Baltimore, is one of the wealthiest members of Congress. Ironically, her husband, Paul Pelosi, is a successful investment banker and owner of the Sacramento Mountain Lions and the United Football League.



















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JQCitizen
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:19amI’ve always thought Mr Deep Pile of Cowchips was a dim-bulb cashing in on a mystic religion, an accent, and a vapid segment of American culture, (or non-culture); we now have proof of HIS vapid and hypocritical nature.
FIGURES!!!
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:12amDarn, and I don’t see their heads on pikes. The hypocrisy of the AWolS is stunning.
Hey, if we’re going to talk about parasites what about all the Obama minions, who became millionaires, by working for the government on our taxpayer money? You know, like global-warming salesman Al Gore, and what‘s that guy’s name who’s VP? Oh, yeah. Joe Biden. What the heck does he do anyway besides parking his boat next to someone else’s state and putting his foot in his mouth? And Barack Obama who takes a vacation on our money just about every other week, when he’s not crowning himself king over and over again. How come their heads aren’t on pikes?
And how about Michael Moore? I almost forgot his name. The millionaire who looks like a reject. That one. Who’s always railing against the rich and who thinks Cuba has a better health care system than we did before Obamacare was shoved through.
And who can forget Roseanne who would like the rich beheaded. I‘m sure she’s going to have a difficult time cutting off her own head, but I’m sure she can get one of those AWolS to oblige her.
There’s not a ounce of common sense in any of them.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:10amBoy are you stupid.
IntheKnowOG
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:11am@ MBRIZ
That’s a quality argument you present there. Loaded with facts and supporting evidence. You should run for president on the democrat ticket or at least the chairman of the DNC. With arguments like that, you would give “O” and his little dog a run for their money…
Report Post »Airgun
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:57am@mbriz-you hate Glenn, we get it.
Report Post »You love the protesters, we get it.
The concept of hypocrisy is above your pay grade, we get it.
You have nothing better to do than disrupt, deride, dismiss, denounce, deny, defile and demonize.
And I bet you go to college on someone else’s money too.
You’re ugly and your mama dresses you funny, so there.
team1blazer
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:09amUseful Idiots All. When the cold, wet winter sets in, or the lead starts flying (I wonder which will occur first) these sissy punks will be back in mommys basement, and the Hollywood morons will be back on the beach somewhere.
Report Post »darthtyran
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 4:39amNo they wont because they know that is the first place we will look for them…they will leave the country post haste.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:06amThis is going to turn out like the French Revolution if the right doesn’t try to get in on this. All these Bolsheviks are coming out to support this movement that doesn’t have a leader (supposedly). The right needs to stop condemning OWS and do like Alex Jones and try to take leadership of it and turn it on the Bolsheviks. This OWS could get violent just like the French Revolution. Right now, there are a number of OWS protesters who aren’t Bolsheviks. They are just sick of corporations making money on Wall Street while millions remain unemployed. Take Solyndra for example. I can just imagine some employee asking their boss, “I’m looking at buying a house. Should I?” Boss: “Absolutely, our company hasn’t looked this good in years! By all means, go buy that house.” The following week Solyndra files bankruptcy. Corporations will like to you face and not think twice about it. Look at these trade industries like CTIA Wireless Association that will lie and tell you how customers don‘t want an easier bill to read when the gov’t proposes it. OWS protesters do have some valid grievances such as how these corporations moved jobs to China to boost their profits, all at the expense of American jobs. Now they‘ve been unemployed for a while and now they’re dangerous. I hope OWS does get a bit wild and raids the houses of some like George Soros and do a Mussolini on him. The right needs to show how these people are in the boat they are due to Obama’s failed pol
Report Post »spirited
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:25amThey are ….after all
>just hanging out.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 4:16am@sillyfreshness
Report Post »Actually the large majority of the people that you are talking about are people who KNEW that they couldn’t afford a big fancy house and all the trimmings and they got the government to force the banks to lend the money. And as for Solyndra, that was some corporate thieves that are in bed together with obama. Hmm, all of this stuff points to the liberals and the muslims in the white house. How strange that they are not being picketed by these wannabe pretend thugs prostituting themselves for the liberals.
crabbyoldman
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 6:49amWhen it gets cold they will go home. I hope. The whole thing is an obama campign thingie…….
Report Post »yancie
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:45amSitting ducks, all the rich hollyWeirdo need to pack these freaks up and move them to their Mansions, feed them , pay them to lay around all day so they can cry to each other about how the working class is keeping them down. I mean because after all thats what they expect us to do.
Well I bequeath all these lazy no good for nothing uneducated snot rags to all you rich people that love them so much.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:43pmAlaskan front coming down this weekend. In Buffalo winds will be blowing in the 50mph range. Temps will drop into the higher 30‘s or low 40’s. Rain will be significant to. Now lets see how many stay outside once that front makes it to NYC? This will be fun. Rats scurrying for cover. Or if you wish, turning the light on and watching the cockroaches scurry away.
Report Post »SkyeOne
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:03amHow would Yoko know John is sending his smile to the Occupy protesters? He worked for every penny he made. He didn’t ask for government assistance. Why would he want the rich to be taxed out of existence?
Report Post »The Occupy protesters are calling for violence, even death. I thought she was for peace.
TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:32amYoko also thinks she can sing…
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:02amAs much as I liked John Lennen and the Beatles music, it pretty much predicted these drugged hippies with ‘Imagine”(NWO) and “Revolution”. There were a few more songs too, some like 999 with Ono…. very weird. Charles Manson claimed to read into his music and see the future..and of course acted on it and you see where he wound up. These people may not realize it, but they are playing with evil. I also believe some of Michael Jackson’s music was prophetic too, but I think it was quite the opposite from the Beatles, calling for a more peaceful nature. I am going out on a limb here for a minute…lol…and say I am wondering if MJ was killed bc he knew too much. There was a Saudi King sueing him over songs he wanted him to record, but he chose others. Some strange things going on in our world these days. I pray things will calm down and more people will come to their senses. I was over on newsvine(msnbc) and I find many liberals are excited to see Cain running for president, but still say Obama will win. I really don’t care how much this man seems like a Tea Party conservative I think he is a plant and the Alinsky rule is playing this game pretty well and many are buying it. People better wake up and take a look around. How was he so outspoken against Muslims and now blacks but still high in the polls…wake up. Not another candidate could do that. Perry‘s family couldn’t even have a rock on someone else’s property they purchased or leased without condemnation. May God
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:59amI really don’t see how throwing your support behind this clueless mob translates into a political boost later on….rather it serves to illuminate who is commited to a system that is totally alien to the American system that has been so widly successful up until the last 2 decades. I really blame the 2 terms of Clinton, and to a much lesser degree the 2 terms of GW and the current term of Dingle Barry that has brought America virtually to it’s knees (financially,economically and culturally) in shuch a short span of time. Of course the vast majority of damage has iccured under the Democarts watch beginning with the 100 year run of Progressive Dems controlling most of the urban centers throughout the USA. The evidence of the willful destruction of the original ideal that the USA was founded on in written in these very same urban centers, and in general the areas of the US that have been dominated for decades by Democrats. How the Dems have managed to portray the Repubs as the culprit for this slide is simply breath taking in it’s audacity and yet for years the general public at large swallowed this BS without questioning it. I believe the past 4-5 years has represented a conservative awakening the likes of which has not been seen for over a 100 years (if at all throughout the nations history). This awakening has surfaced just in the nick of time IMO….hopefully the coming election and it’s results will provide the final nail in the Progressive/Socialist/Communist coffin.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:14amSimpleton, the IQ of this group is lower then I would have expected, even for becky clones.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:53am“Dingle Barry” – I just love that name for him! Obama and his socialist Progressives have already lost the political battle. That happened in 2010. Mr and Mrs Average American were totally disgusted by the way “Obama Care” was literally forced upon the American Public, against our wills, by the Socialist Progressives.
We don’t want Obama Care, we never want Obama Care, and we will never WANT Obama Care! It is bankrupting our Country! Obama Care is anti-American.
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:58ampuddleduck……………………… dingle barry. thats really good. wish i had thought of it myself. do you mind if i use it from time to time?…………………………….
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:53amWhat a bunch of has-beens who made a mint in their heyday, so much they can now afford to have a ‘social conscience’ instead of working for a living. Pffft!
Yoko’s so-called singing makes me think of two cats being slaughtered while mating.
If Rosanne is anything like the character she used to portray, her kids would be in therapy until they were 95.
Moore and Pelosi–can’t say more than we have already said here of them
When was the last time Sarandon and Baldwin appeared in a blockbuster? And wasn‘t it ’sensitive’ Alec who went off on a foul-mouthed tirade against his own daughter a few years back? (might have been someone else; correct me if I’m wrong in that one).
How sad our educational system never taught these protesters and their rich supporters the meanings of the words hypocrisy and irony.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:15amThat’s funny Upstate, two cats being slaughtered while mating, my ears hurt just thinking about that.
Report Post »I have worked for these type of people for the last 37 years, and i will say that 95% of them have no soul.
And their children, well, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
lassew
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:54pmLove the comparison! Guess when you’re just a has been you have to do something to help the days go by. Too bad their heads are all up their @$$es.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:52amThis is a good lesson for people to not look up to celebrities because they are rich or famous. Demand substance out of anyone you choose to admire.
Report Post »runngun50
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:45amIs it just me or is Barr dressed like Hitler pullen ginger bread men out of an oven? Just like Glen was saying today, she can pull crap like this and get a show. Hank Jr. says one line and looses a big contract. And they want equality…
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:01amJust how long do you expect Roseanne Barr’s TV show about her version of trailer park occupants to last? She‘ll play the liberal’s view, much like Serpent Head’s “drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park…“ attempting to illustrate them as the ”trash” they always call them. She will more likely p!$$ off most of the watching public and be canceled within a month.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:32amI only have one question. How did Rosanne get 80 million??? She has more than Alec Baldwin and Michael Moore. Wow. I hope MM and AB, and the others, read this. Perhaps they should start protesting among themselves.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:34amAbout time for these hypocrites to start passing out their OWN money … ALL OF IT … most are just “trailer trash” in a better neighborhood .. they have no morals!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:44amThats exactly what I was thinking…let’s spread their wealth around….if their so worried about wall street bankers and their money…next question..where did nancy get hers…for a public servant…she’s got some bucks!
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:56amRoseann’s tv show was #1 in 89-90 and in the top 5 for quite a while.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:52amkind of lets one think it’s easy to become a rich idiot, i’m such a slack off
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:27am~^~v~~^~~v~^~
Title should be “10 Biggest HYPOCRITES Supporting Useful Idiot-Stock!”
I am sooooo sick and tired hearing about this snobby Soros funded, Obama supported, astroturf event. These dolts aside from having no clue why they are there or any type of agenda have the audacity to compare themselves with the people in the middle east! People who are literally dying to have a fraction of what these drones in NYC (and around the country) take advantage of everyday!
The best way to fight these people is not to argue with them, no we know logic and reason dont work. The best thing to do is to produce solid info on all who support and their ties to banks, corp America and the govt. Yes in other words Im suggesting turning the drones on their handlers! The Titanic is going down there is no sense in trying to convince these people let them stay and whine while the rest of us get the lifeboats. Let these drones fight their own for whatever is left that floats!! Stop playing the game TAPGW http://tinyurl.com/yhglscs
Report Post »patriotic libertarian atheist
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:23amjust a little more stupid for everyone camping out on wall st. all the people supporting their cause they are against…..does no one see the irony here…soon the cities will burn
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:27amOh I do see the irony of it all; and the main part is the cities will likely start to burn just as the first winds of winter come into play. People who grow cold, and desperate, in addition to being whipped into a frenzy each and every day — mind numbed, and chanting robots (called brain washing as well), who will then be unleashed for fire, steel and blood.
I figure that if we make it past the next month without violence erupting we will be fortunate, and may God keep it peaceful.
Report Post »aquablue
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:23amIt is not about the gap between rich and poor. It is about systematically destroying the principles and values that our founding fathers instilled in our nation. It’s about planting the seeds of Socialism and destroying the USA as we know it. The Democratic party is dead, it is called Socialism now.
Report Post »What’s wrong is right, what’s right is wrong. New World Order. What’s yours is mine.
I’m scared, very scared. The many ‘useful idiots’ protesting won’t realize what they have done until it is too late.
Jondolar
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:21amThe longer I live, the more I realize how gullible and mesmerized people are by what passes for media today. But, when I think a little about it, it’s simply a matter of them not having developed any critical thinking skills.
Report Post »Van Bones
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:21amVile.
Report Post »Barackalypse Now
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:20amThey hypocrisy of the left just does not stop! I’m amused!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:26amWhy don’t they had out ALL THEIR MONEY! No it is always someone else’s they want … and I AM SICK of the MSM making these idiots sound angelic … while they vilifiy the TEA Party .. wait until NOVEMBER 2012 .. how many of these idiots will even be able to find out where to vote .. let alone go and do it .. of course they will if they are PAID like right now!
TEA!
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:36amyeah, this is pretty stupid…
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:20amSo…. did President Obama admit to the involvement of the Executive Branch of the Gov being involved in Occupy movements when he stated today that to ‘pass his jobs bill” they were going to need to engage in more community organizing? Seemed like an odd statement. Dont ever remember a president stating that they were going to engage in ‘community organizing’ before…at least not in those words.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:33amWhat is “interesting” is how they are blaming the R’s for not passing his “jobs bill” (that will create NO JOBS!) in the SENATE .. the Dems control the SENATE! But the MSM doesn’t even call them on the LIE!
TEA!
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:19amI am glad to see that their is not one Capitalist in the Bunch. At least these 10 people will never have worry about any competition from any of the lazy Protestors that has lost any chance of achieving the American Dream.
While these idiots are Protesting there are many Young and Old Americans that aren’t protesting and working hard to achieve the American Dream. I support those Great American’s.
Report Post »patriotic libertarian atheist
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:26amhttp://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/44229 there are plenty of capitalist there they failed to see that they them selves were also capitalist…how much of this crap is made in china or mexico
Report Post »Ex-Democrat
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:18amIf anyone can get them out of there, Yoko can! Let her start “singing” and everybody will run for the hills.
Report Post »smokie
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:25amPoor Yoko, she has her head firmly up her own ass, doesn’t she? Get a load of her Twitter Account sometimes. “Your house is not empty, your head is.“ ”Paint a window on your wall.” !?!?!
Report Post »Never came down from that one acid trip too many.
jb.kibs
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:40amthey live imaginary lives…
Report Post »i‘m not saying don’t have an imagination… but, i am saying don’t fill your house with imaginary furnishings, friends, family, etc.. ;)
Ex-Democrat
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:13pmYoko‘s musing are sometimes interesting to try and ponder but they reflect someone who doesn’t have any real responsibilities or concerns in life. It reflects the life of someone with excessive amounts of money and too much free time since they don’t have to lift a finger for themselves. One of the “elite 1%” the protesters are against, but simply one of the moronic “idle rich” to me. She killed a record that John was working on with Cheap Trick (already stars at the time) because she accused the band of trying to “ride the coattails of John’s success”. Apparently there were no mirrors in the Lennon household (or self-reflection for that matter).
Report Post »Tightroper2
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:18amA tempest in a teapot. Will blow over without consequence.
Report Post »edubble21
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:17amOver $1 Billion in wealth, and not an ounce of common sense among these 10 nincompoops.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:24amIndeed, there is a phrase referable to these people — smart idiots.
They know how to make money, have the smarts to get where they want, and yet are as barren of common sense and wisdom as Death Valley is parched ground and nearly lifeless.
Report Post »azjoannie
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:15amOff with their heads – as Roseanne suggested!
Report Post »timej31
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:14amNIce
Report Post »h650xlr
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:12amI’m ready to fight for my country.
Report Post »Delete the Elite
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:57amFight who? The protesters?
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on October 13, 2011 at 5:31amTools required;
Bible (a self help book and responsibility instruction guide to say the least)
Report Post »Priest
Rabbi
Ministor
Pastor
Psychiatrist
Exorcist
The Pope
Anti-bacterial air freshener
common sense
knowledge of history
patience
hand sanitizer
garbage bags
hose
camera (because who would believe what you’d probably see)
coffee (for yourself)
Patriots
mirror
Boom box with the Beatles “Revolution” in loop mode
more coffee (for yourself)
Ted Nugent