After "a glamorous career in the New York City fashion world," says 32-year-old MacDella Cooper (
pictured), she started the
MacDella Cooper Foundation "with the mission of empowering Liberian youth, especially orphans and abandoned children." Their collections are modest in this regard, and
GuideStar only has them for 2007; neither
Charity Navigator nor the
Association of Fundraising Professionals lists the organization. But Cooper has run a number of high-profile events and
received a lot of press for it. One of her contributors has been former Time Warner chairman Richard Parsons, 61, and today the the
Daily News reveals that
he is the father of Cooper's child. "This is a private matter, and I prefer not to talk about it at this time," he tells the
News. Parsons is married and has three children.