Saturday, July 11, 2026

Global Citizen Hires High Powered, Highly Paid Exec to…Raise Money for the Poor? No…Produce More Expensive Rock Concerts? Yes

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People still don’t get it. Global Citizen is about money and rock concerts. It has nothing to do with poverty, charity, or hunger.

This morning this sketchy tax free boondoggle announced they have hired Lee Rolontz as SVP of Broadcast and Events. They didn’t hire her to get money or food to poor people. No, her job is to produce more expensive rock concerts.

Rolontz, with 20 years on her resume at I Heart Radio and Viacom/VH-1, will undoubtedly receive a high six figure salary and an expense account.

She will join an organization that already is paying its top two execs $400,000-plus a year. And claimed total salaries in 2017 of $9 million.

Yet, as I’ve written before, Global Citizen’s only job is to “raise awareness” about poverty and hunger. And to fly rock stars around the world.

It’s nice work, if you can get it.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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