Alyssa Milano’s controversial GoFundMe campaign has shattered its fundraising goal, despite the actress being blasted by fans for asking them to donate.
Charmed star Milano, 51, set up the online fundraiser herself under her married name Alyssa Bugliari and asked for $10,000 in donations for her 12-year-old son’s baseball team trip – then shared it with her 3.4 million followers on X.
Fans widely mocked the post and flooded her replies with memes, including one that said the actress “identifies as poor” when it comes time to pay the bills.
After receiving criticism, Milano defended herself on
She added: ‘The children also do their own fundraising – car washes, movie nights and lots of other fun things! Thank you to everyone who contributed to Gofundme! You made it easier for these guys and their families.”
Alyssa Milano’s controversial GoFundMe campaign has shattered its fundraising goal, despite the actress being blasted by fans for asking them to donate
Alyssa and her husband Dave Bugliari married in 2009, and in addition to their 12-year-old son Milo, they also have a nine-year-old daughter named Elizabella.
The fundraiser has now reached $11,260, with Milano taking to social media to thank those who donated amid the ‘vitriol’.
She wrote: ‘Thank you to everyone who donated. #gofundme from Milo’s team has reached their goal for #Cooperstown. I really appreciate your donations amid the vitriol.”
Milano is married to powerful Hollywood agent David Bugliari, 43, who was co-head of CAA’s film division.
Milano and Bugliari married in 2009 and in addition to their 12-year-old son Milo, they also have a nine-year-old daughter named Elizabella.
She posted the GoFundMe to X on Thursday, writing, “My son’s baseball team is raising money for their trip to Cooperstown. Any amount would be greatly appreciated.”
Criticism poured in on social media, including from one
“Why doesn’t Alyssa Milano pay for the entire team’s travel herself?” wrote another. “Why does she charge money to people who can barely buy groceries.”
Another social media user wondered: ‘Do rich people really lose touch with reality completely? She has people who live from check to check and are committed to her son. WTF happened to us.”
The fundraiser has now reached $11,260, with Milano taking to social media to thank those who donated amid the ‘vitriol’
DailyMail.com spotted Milano driving her fully loaded and customized 2023 electric Porsche Taycan 4S on Saturday – worth an estimated $200,000
For her part, Milano has defended her GoFundMe, saying she has donated to the team, bought uniforms and paid dues for the children who are financially needy
“You’re a rich actress in Hollywood and you’re begging for money for your child?” one X user snapped. “Pay for it yourself, you miserable idiot.”
“#AlyssaMilano would like to know if people can also donate to pay for her toilet paper and possibly her snacks,” another wrote.
Yet another
Milano also had defenders, like one who argued about X: “Why would the other parents expect her to pay for all the team stuff? The kids have to raise the money, she thought she was helping.”
One of her supporters wrote in her replies: ‘It’s immediately surreal, just because you’re an actress people think you have to finance the whole thing. There’s nothing wrong with you doing this. It’s a good example for the kids to see you as Alyssa the mother, and not as Alyssa the actress. This world is overrun with/Karens!’
After receiving backlash, Milano defended herself on
Milano, pictured with her son Milo, added: ‘The children also do fundraising themselves: car washes, movie nights and many more fun things!’
The GoFundMe was launched with a goal of $10,000, with more than $7,000 raised as of Friday morning, the day after Milano’s controversial post on
Commenters on social media soon started raking her over the coals, wondering why a famous actress would feel the need to ask for money from normal people
“I know,” Milano replied. “And I would if I could.”
The actress does not appear among the listed donors on the GoFundMe page, although some donations were anonymous.
On that detail, a donor gave $5 to the baseball trip under the screen name DoesntAlyssa HaveEnoughMoney.
The GoFundMe was launched with a goal of $10,000, with more than $7,000 raised as of Friday morning, the day after Milano’s controversial post on
She and her family live in a reported $2.5 million, five-bedroom home in a luxury gated community in Bell Canyon, about 20 miles north of Los Angeles.
Milano, the celebrity who popularized Tarana Burke’s “Me Too” slogan in Hollywood, is often ridiculed for her left-wing political interventions.
Milano also had defenders, like one who argued about X: “Why would the other parents expect her to pay for all the team stuff?”
One of her supporters wrote in her replies: ‘It’s immediately surreal, just because you’re an actress people think you have to finance the whole thing’
In 2018, she attended a gun control meeting where a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) confronted her security guard, asked if he was armed, received no response, and was escorted from the scene.
In September 2020, after vociferously supporting the “defund the police” movement, she and her husband were accused of calling 911 on what she reportedly believed was an armed stalker on her property.
Authorities responded to the area, including seven Ventura County Sheriff’s Office vehicles, a K-9 unit and a police helicopter.
It subsequently emerged that the shooter was in fact a “neighborhood teenager shooting squirrels with an air gun,” according to a neighbor who spoke to DailyMail.com.
Milano adamantly denied that she had made the first 911 call, insisting that a neighbor of hers had indeed been the first to call authorities.
Her denial was backed up by a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, who confirmed that the original caller was “not related to Alyssa Milano.”
However, Milano admitted this in a statement Fox news that after the neighbor made the first call, her husband called first responders to “check when the police would arrive.”
The same year, she was mocked online for posting a video of herself using a detangling brush on her wet hair and letting some of it come out — a development she attributed to her contracting COVID-19.