Madonna urges billionaire Jeff Bezos to invest in Detroit
The "Queen of Pop" has a solid idea for the Amazon billionaire's next investment - the Motor City.
Brian Manzullo
Jeff Bezos has been extra busy lately, having just purchased Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.
Madonna has a solid idea for the Amazon owner and billionaire's next investment.
Two days after Bezos requested ideas for philanthropic investments on Twitter, the Bay City native and "Queen of Pop" sent a tweet to Bezos on Saturday - with mentions to the Detroit Achievement Academy, Detroit's Downtown Boxing Gym and Detroit-based Empowerment Plan - urging Bezos to invest in the Motor City.
"@jeffbezos you, me, the motor city. Let's go and I will show incredible opportunities for almost instant impact in one of the coolest cities in America #Detroit
Love,
Madonna"
The tweet's been retweeted more than 375 times and "liked" more than 1,450 times since Saturday.
Madonna, a 1976 graduate of Rochester Adams High School, has made investments to Detroit's Downtown Boxing Gym and The Empowerment Plan in the past. And Bezos, whose net worth as of this month is $84.1 billion, is looking for "a philanthropy strategy that is the opposite of how I mostly spend my time - working on the long term."
"I'm thinking I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now - short term - at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact," Bezos tweeted Thursday.
Bezos is the founder, chairman and CEO of Amazon, which has solidified itself as the world's leading online shopping center. He also owns The Washington Post newspaper and Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer.
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