Angelina Jolie Quits Princess Diana's Favourite Mine-Clearing Charity Over Trustees Paying Themselves £500 A Day Using Charity Fund

Hollywood actress, Jolie wasn't pleased when she discovered that two trustees had paid themselves more than £120,000 for a “review”.

  

 

Angelina Jolie is known to be, one of the world’s most famous humanitarian campaigners, she told trustees they should pay for the review themselves rather than using charity funds.
Jolie was unhappy the Halo Trust helped pay the boarding school fees of some staff’s children.
An insider told The Times: “She left because she was extremely uncomfortable with the actions of the trustees.
“Basically, Jolie's point was the trustees paying themselves with charity funds.
The trust receives millions of pounds a year from governments and the UN, including £5.7 million in 2014-15 from the UK’s Department for International Development.
Jolie had raised objections about plans to pay Amanda Pullinger, the chairwoman of trustees and a former hedgefund chief, and Simon Conway, an author, a combined £850 a day for the review.
James Cowan, the trust’s chief executive, said that the actress had joined in a unanimous vote in favour of the governance review and said her resignation letter cited “a wish to do other things”.