Last week, the Opperman Foundation
announced a five-strong list it said was chosen from “a slate of dozens of diverse nominees” but which included just one woman.
That was Martha Stewart, 82, the lifestyle entrepreneur (and
member of the first RBG award committee) who in 2004 was convicted of fraud and
jailed for five months.
The men were:
- Musk, 52, the billionaire owner of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, through which he has taken increasingly rightwing political stances;
- Murdoch, 93 and the rightwing media baron owner of Fox News;
- Michael Milken, 77, a financier jailed on securities charges, pardoned by Trump and now a philanthropist;
- And Sylvester Stallone, 77, the star of films including the Rocky saga and the violent Rambo franchise.