Overview
- Eilish accepted the WSJ Magazine Music Innovator Award at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and used her speech to urge wealthy attendees to donate to people in need.
- She challenged billionaires in the room with remarks questioning extreme wealth, drawing a mix of murmurs, laughter, and scattered applause.
- Stephen Colbert announced that Eilish would direct roughly $11.5 million from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to groups focused on food justice, climate justice, and CO₂ reduction.
- People reported an eyewitness account that Mark Zuckerberg did not applaud when Eilish addressed billionaires, while he attended alongside Priscilla Chan.
- Chan received the Philanthropy in Science Innovator Award at the same event, which was also attended by Hailey Bieber, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Tory Burch, Questlove, and Karlie Kloss.