Leonardo DiCaprio refutes Brazilian president’s claim that he funded Amazon wildfires

LOS ANGELES – Leonardo DiCaprio has refuted bizarre and false claims from Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro that the actor financed the wildfires in the Amazon, playing into a ploy by the World Wildlife Fund to generate donations.
DiCaprio posted a statement on Instagram Saturday that “while worthy of support, we did not fund the organizations targeted.”“This Leonardo DiCaprio is a cool guy, right?” Bolsonaro said, according to Reuters, during a bri