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 Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet: Donate money to Titanic's last survivor
"Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and the film's director James Cameron have donated 30,000 dollars in support of the last survivor of the Titanic in her last years. A representative for Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed this news on Monday.
Details of this news have been inferred from quite a number of sources. According to them, the ninety seven year old Millvina Dean, has reportedly resorted to selling her autograph to pay her nursing home bills in Southampton, the English city from which "Titanic" started its fateful maiden voyage in the year 1912.
Dean was only nine weeks old when her family traveled on Titanic with the hope of starting a new life in the United States. Her father was one of the 1,517 casualties after the supposedly unsinkable ship hit an iceberg in the Atlantic.
DiCaprio, Winslet and Cameron made their combined donation of 30,000 dollars after the Irish author and photographer Don Mullan publicly challenged them to match his donation. Ken Sunshine, a spokesman for DiCaprio has said so. Mullan, who photographed Dean for an exhibition, made his appeal last month in the Irish Independent newspaper.
The 1997 film "Titanic" made over $1.8 billion at the international box office, thereby making it the highest-grossing film of all time in figures not adjusted for inflation. The film also grabbed eleven Oscars, including best picture.
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