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The Obama campaign provided additional details about its' $222 million fundraising haul Tuesday, revealing that many of the president's top fundraisers were leading figures in Hollywood and the media.

Among those who have raised more than $500,000 throughout the president's reelection effort are Vogue editor Anna Wintour, producer Harvey Weinstein, and DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Actress Eva Longoria brought in more than $200,000 for the president, while disgraced MF Global Holdings CEO and former Sen. Jeffrey Corzine brought in more than half a million for the president.

Other donors had ties to the environmental-tech sector, defense contractors, and Wall Street. A Center for Public Integrity report release earlier in January found that of Obama's previously released top bundlers, 68 had r! eceived high-level appointments in the administration and hundreds had been invited to White House events.

But Obama's campaign team pointed out that in the fourth quarter, when Obama raised $68 million, they received donations from 583,000 individuals in the fourth quarter, around 200,000 of whom had never donated to either this or the president's initial campaign. The average contribution to the president's campaign was $55, with the vast majority â€" 98 percent â€" of donations coming in at $250 or less.

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