Music icon, Dolly Parton has been gifted $100 million by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
Parton is the latest receiver of the Bezos Courage and Civility Award.
Before the grant was awarded to Parton, Bezos’ longtime partner, Lauren Sanchez, posted a video of their speech on Instagram and wrote: “Jeff [Bezos] and I are so proud to share that we have a new Bezos Courage and Civility Award winner — a woman who gives with her heart and leads with love and compassion in every aspect of her work.
“We can’t wait to see all the good that you’re going to do with this $100 million award, @DollyParton.”
Parton, who has donated to many causes for decades, thanked Bezos and Sanchez on Twitter.
She tweeted: “I try to put my money where my heart is. I will do my best to do good things with this money,” Parton tweeted. “Thank you @JeffBezos #LaurenSanchez”
Parton donated $1 million during the pandemic to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s vaccine research efforts which was partly deployed to funding Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine.
During an interview with BBC’s “The One Show” at that time, she said she felt “honored and proud.”
She said: “I just felt so proud to have been part of that little seed money that will hopefully grow into something great and help to heal this world. “I’m a very proud girl today to know I had anything at all to do with something that’s going to help us through this crazy pandemic.”
Parton established the Dollywood Foundation in 1988 and eventually The Imagination Library, a program which helps children across the world access books.
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