Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch’s RBG Awards Ceremony Scrapped Amid Backlash

An awards ceremony where Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and others were set to be given an award in the name of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg won’t go ahead as scheduled, the foundation running the event announced Monday, after backlash from the late Supreme Court justice’s family.

Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, said in a statement that the “planned ceremony in April 2024 will be canceled” and addressed the criticisms at this year’s list of recipients, which also included entrepreneur Martha Stewart, actor Sylvester Stallone, and Michael Milken, the financier convicted on felony fraud counts and later pardoned by Donald Trump. “Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the Foundation is not interested in creating controversy,” Opperman wrote in the statement.

The honor, originally named the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award when it was first given out four years ago, included men on its slate of recipients for the first time this year. When the list of 2024 honorees was announced last week, Ginsburg’s daughter slammed the selections as “an affront to the memory of our mother.”

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