Jane Fonda to attend ball with Austrian tycoon for money: ‘I support a lot of people’
Julia Johnson
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Jane Fonda revealed that her Austrian building tycoon date offered to pay her “a bit of money” to accompany him to the Vienna Opera Ball on Thursday.
The 85-year-old award-winning actress said at a press conference for the event that she needed the money because “I support a lot of people.”
The 2023 Vienna Opera Ball will take place on Thursday night.
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Despite her reported $200 million net worth, Fonda claimed she needed the money from her date, 90-year-old Richard Lugner, in order to both pay her bills and support her grandchildren, per the report. It’s unknown how much money she is expected to receive from Lugner.
Also at the press conference, Fonda took the opportunity to call out the opera for allegedly accepting money from an oil company.
“I found out yesterday that OMV is a sponsor of the Vienna ball, and I’m sorry to hear that,” she said, referencing the OMV Group.
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“These fossil fuel companies are criminal. They’re criminal. They are killing people. They are killing the planet,” she claimed. “And what they try to do to make themselves socially acceptable is give money to museums and operas and cultural things that make them seem that they’re good citizens.”
“We mustn’t let that happen,” Fonda added. “The Vienna Opera is a great, world great, great opera. Please, try to get your opera to stop taking support from an oil company.”