Chelsea Handler Teams With Phil Murphy For Pricey Fundraiser In N.J.

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Actor and Garden State native Chelsea Handler will appear at a fundraiser in an Essex County suburb in support of New Jersey governor candidate Phil Murphy on Saturday, Oct. 21.

Handler, who was born in Livingston, will be the special guest at an evening reception at the home of Marcia Marley and Peter Rappoport in Montclair on Saturday, Oct. 21, according to a notice from BlueWaveNJ. The fundraising event is in support of Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs banking executive and Democrat nominee for New Jersey governor in 2017.

Admission for the event isn’t cheap, with “suggested contribution levels” ranging from a limited amount of $250 “guest” donations to the $10,000 “host” level. Learn more here.

Murphy made just under $7.3 million last year and $28.3 million since 2010, almost all of it passive income from investments, NJ.com reported.

Handler, a comedian, actress, producer and Livingston native, was named one of the “100 most influential people in the world” by Time in 2012. In January, Handler declared that she no longer considers herself a Democrat because the two-party political system in the U.S. is “too divisive.”

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But in May, Handler posted the below YouTube trailer for her eponymously named Netflix show, “Chelsea,” which boasts that “there's a new Democratic party in town and they're bigger, badder, and more badass than ever before.” WARNING: Video contains profanity.

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