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Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian both donated $2 million at Jay-Z and Michael Rubin’s Reform Alliance Gala charity auction on Saturday night .
Brady, 46, and Kardashian, 42, attended the All-Star Blackjack Party in Atlantic City with a house full of 200 guests to prepare for the 2019 Blackjack Show with Meek Mill, Michael Rubin Jay-Z’s charity, co-founded by Michael Rubin, Robert Kraft and others, raises funds.
At the auction that night, a painting by the famous artist George Condo was auctioned, and when Brady and Kardashian each bid $2 million, the artist agreed to create another work for Kardashian as a commission.
Condor has created album covers for Kardashian’s ex-husband Kanye West in the past.
The jersey Brady wore when he scored his 700th NFL touchdown in 2021 was also auctioned for charity that night. (The rugby star said at the auction that he never even washed the item!)
The lot sold for $1.2 million and included the cost of a dinner with Brady.
Business wizard Gary Vaynerchuk bought a painting by artist Rashid Johnson for $1.1 million. Tiffany Haddish also bid for $1 million but lost.
Jay-Z is auctioning off a watch from his collection that was custom-made for him by the famous Jacob & Co. This beautiful watch was auctioned at the event for $1.5 million to a collector.
As far as we know, the night far exceeded the Reform Alliance’s goal of $20 million, bringing in over $24 million.
The buy-in for the blackjack tournament is $100,000 for players and $50,000 for non-players at Ocean Casino Resort.
The casino also donated the $1 million grand prize, and the night’s big winner, Andrew Goldberg of TAO Group, donated $750,000 of his winnings to the Reform Alliance.
Kevin Hart hosted the night and teased some of the celebrity audience members, including Travis Scott and Meek Mill. Hart warned his friend and Reform Alliance co-founder Rubin as he took the stage: “I’m shooting! Some of them are going to get hurt!”
But Hart also made a powerful appeal to the reform coalition aiming to change probation and parole laws by telling how his own father “served a long time, in and out of jail.”
Hart also jokingly blamed the ongoing Hollywood actor’s strike as the reason why he didn’t buy anything from the night’s auction.
“I wish the strike hadn’t happened! I would have bought all this stuff,” he said. “My (finances) are all taken care of.”
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Rubin and Reform Alliance co-founder Meek Mill and the organization’s CEO Robert Rooks also spoke, and guests at the event included Matthew McConaughey, Dez Bryant, Jake Harlow, Alex Rodriguez, et al.
Performers at the afterparty included Travis Scott, Fat Joe, Fabolous, Quavo, Lil Durk, French Montana, Lil Baby and Meek.
The board also includes co-founders Michael Rubin and Robert Kraft, as well as Nets co-owners Clara Wu Tsai, Robert Smith, Michael Novogratz and Laura Arnold.
To date, the Reform Alliance has helped pass 18 bills in 11 states while creating a path for more than 700,000 people who have been unfairly targeted.
The party was inspired in part by Rubin’s annual Independence Day White Party, as well as Jay and Beyoncé’s annual Gold Party in Los Angeles.
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