Barbra Streisand’s film company, which pays the groundskeeper at her $20 million mansion, got $200,000 in PPP money intended to help small businesses make payroll written off, The Post has learned.
The multimillionaire star’s Barwood Films Ltd. received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020 and 2021 — then had them written off by the federal government.
Among the workers paid through Barwood Films in 2020 and 2021 was a groundskeeper responsible for the gardens at her $20 million Malibu clifftop home — where the business is registered — and an “executive support” employee.
[As lame as this allegation sounds, it was probably legal if Streisand paid her personal employees through her production company. Congress didn’t do a very good job of imposing restrictions on the use of those funds. That doesn’t let Streisand off the hook for filing the claim, but let’s also remember that the PPP would not have been necessary at all if the government hadn’t been so determined to shut down businesses and then restrict access to them for months at a time. — Ed]
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