“All the money that will be raised by you raising your paddles will be matched by the Bezos family tonight, on top of everything they have given already — I’d like to be adopted,” said Henry Winkler to laughs on Saturday in Brentwood. The actor opened his home to host This Is About Humanity’s fifth anniversary fundraiser, which collected more than $1 million this past weekend. That’s on top of the $1 million the Bezos family donated in 2022. The organization, servicing vulnerable communities at the Tijuana and U.S. border since 2018, was started by Winkler’s daughter Zoe Winkler Reinis with Yolanda Walther-Meade and Elsa Marie Collins. The women work to help shelters for minors, women, families and the LGBTQ community in the area. “We went from wanting to do things to actually doing them,” Collins said of Lauren Sánchez’s impact — the evening’s honoree and recipient of its Humanitarian Award. She was joined by fiancé Jeff Bezos and friends including Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria and Hussein bin Abdullah, crown prince of Jordan. Jenner and producer Brian Grazer kicked off the night with a donation of $50,000 each. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez “We used to be part of a women’s group that…,” Collins
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