Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom Raise Millions for Charity, Don't Give a Dime to Charity
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Cathy’s Kids, the charity Lamar Odom founded in honor on his mother to “help underprivileged kids and raise money for cancer research”, has raised over 2.2 million dollars. Excellent news! The not so excellent news? Not a single penny of that money has gone to underprivileged kids or to fight cancer.
Lamar established the charity — Cathy’s Kids — in memory of his mother, who died from cancer when he was 12 … and initially stated that the purpose of the charity was to help underprivileged kids and raise money for cancer research.
But according to official records — obtained by ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” — there is no evidence any of the money ever went to fight cancer.
There is proof, however, $1.3 million of the $2.2 million that was raised went toward funding two “elite” youth basketball teams — the insinuation is that the kids on the teams were so good, they were already on college radars for scholarships and other financial help.
Of the remaining $900k, there is no evidence based on available documentation that any of it went to cancer research. In fact, according to OTL, there’s no evidence whatsoever of where the money went.
Further, they’ve removed all the items from the charity’s eBay page.
UPDATE: Kardashian’s people say Odom was duped:
“It is unfortunate that Lamar Odom has been the target of an attack on athletes’ charities, although he has personally contributed approximately $2.2 million to his foundation, Cathy’s Kids, to fulfill its charitable purposes that include helping underprivileged inner-city youth,” Khloe’s reps told Radar in a statement on Tuesday.
Whatever went down, it clearly sucks the most for the kids and the charities; here’s hoping this is all gets resolved fast.
[TMZ]
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