SIR ELTON JOHN
Gives more than £3,000 an hour to charity
Sir Elton John is the UK’s most generous celebrity, according to researchers at digital raffle platform Raffolux.
The Rocketman star donates £27m a year – which works out as £74,000 a day – to charitable causes in the areas of HIV/Aids, sport, music and the arts. In second place is Harry Potter author JK Rowling, followed by Formula 1 driver Sir Lewis Hamilton.
A spokesman for Raffolux, which raises money for charities, said its research showed that Sir Elton made donations of just over £3,000 an hour in the past year.
The singer, 77, who has two children with his husband, film-maker David Furnish, 61, is one of the world’s highest-paid entertainers, with a fortune of more than £450m.…
