Fortune magazine got it all wrong

Fortune magazine ranked the Oscar-nominated actress as the second-richest Latin American in Hollywood, behind Jennifer Lopez. Salma has denied she has a $100 million fortune, branding the poll a “lie” and claiming she would have donated more to the charities she supports if she had that kind of money in her bank account.

She said, “It’s a huge lie. It’s very, very far from reality. I don’t have that amount of money. Somebody sent me this list of ‘Latino Millionaires’ and I laughed. It’s a bit like a joke. Obviously I have never earned $100 million and I wouldn’t even want to. With things as they are in Mexico, it bothers me that they put me in a group of millionaires with $100 million I don’t have when there are so many people dying of hunger. If I had $100 million I would have retired and would be doing more things on an altruistic level than I can now.”

A spokesman for Fortune has insisted he was not aware that the magazine had even published such a list. He stated, “It’s certainly not a list we’ve done. It seems somebody got their facts mixed up.”