Barbra Streisand Denounces RBG Award Going to Elon Musk, Murdoch
Elon Musk and Rubert Murdoch are earning a leadership award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barbra Streisand and the family of the late justice are not happy about it.
On Monday, the entertainment icon — who was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award last year — joined the family of Ginsburg in denouncing the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation for its recent choice of honorees.
In 2019, Ginsburg helped establish the award with the Opperman Foundation to celebrate “women who exemplify human qualities of empathy and humility.” The organization later opened the award to men, renaming the trophy as the Leadership Award while claiming to aim for gender equality. Four of the five recipients are men this year.
Streisand wrote on Instagram that she was “proud” to receive the award from Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year because of the justices’ “commitment to democratic values, especially women’s rights,” but she shared her discontent with this year’s honorees.
“That’s why I join the Ginsburg family in condemning the choice of honorees this year,” Streisand wrote, although she did not name the recipients. “I had the privilege of meeting Justice Ginsburg on several occasions and I strongly doubt she would approve of these awardees.”
“The justice’s family wish to make clear that they do not support using their mother’s name to celebrate this year’s slate of awardees, and that the justice’s family has no affiliation with and does not endorse these awards,” said RBG’s daughter Jane Ginsburg in a statement to the New York Times, describing the choice in this year’s awardees “an affront to the memory of our mother.”
Julie Opperman, the chairwoman of the foundation, told the publication that Ginsburg fought “for everyone” and they wanted to “honor both women and men who have changed the world by doing what they do best.”
Along with Musk and Murdoch, this year’s awardees included Sylvester Stallone, Michael Milken, and the only female nominee: Martha Stewart.
Shana Knizhnik, the author of Notorious RBG, said that honoring Musk and his “anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ sentiments” and Murdoch, who “has used his immense power to undermine democracy,” dishonors Ginsburg’s legacy.
Elon Musk and Rubert Murdoch are earning a leadership award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barbra Streisand and the family of the late justice are not happy about it.
On Monday, the entertainment icon — who was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award last year — joined the family of Ginsburg in denouncing the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation for its recent choice of honorees.
In 2019, Ginsburg helped establish the award with the Opperman Foundation to celebrate “women who exemplify human qualities of empathy and humility.” The organization later opened the award to men, renaming the trophy as the Leadership Award while claiming to aim for gender equality. Four of the five recipients are men this year.
Streisand wrote on Instagram that she was “proud” to receive the award from Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year because of the justices’ “commitment to democratic values, especially women’s rights,” but she shared her discontent with this year’s honorees.
“That’s why I join the Ginsburg family in condemning the choice of honorees this year,” Streisand wrote, although she did not name the recipients. “I had the privilege of meeting Justice Ginsburg on several occasions and I strongly doubt she would approve of these awardees.”
“The justice’s family wish to make clear that they do not support using their mother’s name to celebrate this year’s slate of awardees, and that the justice’s family has no affiliation with and does not endorse these awards,” said RBG’s daughter Jane Ginsburg in a statement to the New York Times, describing the choice in this year’s awardees “an affront to the memory of our mother.”
Julie Opperman, the chairwoman of the foundation, told the publication that Ginsburg fought “for everyone” and they wanted to “honor both women and men who have changed the world by doing what they do best.”
Along with Musk and Murdoch, this year’s awardees included Sylvester Stallone, Michael Milken, and the only female nominee: Martha Stewart.
Shana Knizhnik, the author of Notorious RBG, said that honoring Musk and his “anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ sentiments” and Murdoch, who “has used his immense power to undermine democracy,” dishonors Ginsburg’s legacy.
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