Brad Pitt has teamed up with Elizabeth Hurley's ex, philanthropist Steve Bing, to pledge $5 million  for a new New Orleans, Louisiana green housing project.

The pair's cash will help build 150 new homes in the city's Lower Ninth Ward - the area worst hit by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Pitt and Bing each pledged to match $5 million in contributions to the project.

Pitt, whose Make It Right campaign has already funded the first low-cost housing campaign in New Orleans, pledged the extra cash as part of a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York on Wednesday (26Sep07), where he met with former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Pitt, who now owns a home in New Orleans, took a moment to recall the elderly man who inspired him to help fix the city - and come up with a name for his charity drive.

He remembered, "The words of one elderly man who is determined to return to New Orleans led to the name of our organization: He asked us, directly simply and profoundly, to help make it right. So that's what we're doing."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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