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Feb 6, 2025: Ben Stiller has denied claims that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded his humanitarian trip to Ukraine. In response to viral posts and misinformation spread on X Stiller posted on X Wednesday.
“Totally false,” Ben Stiller posted on X on Wednesday. He said in his post, These are lies coming from Russian media. I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no personal payments.” Stiller continued, in response to an account that was circulating a “news” video that cited a story that doesn’t appear to ever exist on the site, according to X’s community notes on the post.
The supposed E! News story’s headline, which claims USAID funded Ukraine trips for Angelina Joli, Sean Penn, Orlando Bloom, and Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme–whose name the fake article misspells.
The circulated video claims each was paid between $4 million and 20$ million to visit the country.
MAGA-supportingX users, including the former attorney of President Trump, Sidney Powell, shared a video that circulates the claim that the celebs were paid to visit Ukraine to “increase Zelensky’s popularity around the world.”
Stiller denied the video claims on X “I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine,” he wrote. “There was no funding from USAID and certainly no personal payments.” He visited Ukraine in June 2022 as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR, meeting with displaced Ukrainians and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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