Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s girlfriend, wellness influencer Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, is the lead donor to “Little Rascals” star Brandon “Bug” Hall’s controversial GoFundMe.
Hall began his fundraiser last Thursday, asking for financial assistance with less than a month to go before he and his wife welcomed their sixth child. In January, he told the Daily Mail that he had taken a “vow of poverty” and was living off-grid as a “radical Catholic extremist.”
Hall’s GoFundMe page shows that Gilbert-Soto donated $2,000, completely covering the former child actor’s goal.
Gilbert-Soto, 32, and Brin, 53, have been dating since 2023. President Trump called Gilbert-Soto a “truly wonderful MAGA girlfriend” in September 2025 during a White House dinner he hosted for top tech and business executives.
Previously, Brin – who is worth more than $218 billion according to Forbes – had publicly aligned himself with the political left. For example, he supported efforts for same-sex marriage in California in 2008 and contributed to Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012.
In May, his girlfriend denied pushing her billionaire boyfriend politically toward the far right.
“The Democrats hit him. I had nothing to do,” she told the Free Press. “He has a mind of his own. If I could control him, I’d be married and have a baby right now.”
She added: “If he was a raging bookseller, he wouldn’t be with me, and I wouldn’t be with him. I wouldn’t be dating someone who hasn’t moved out yet.”
Meanwhile, Hall, 41, responded to criticism on X, including one user who urged him to “get a real job” and stop getting his wife pregnant if he can’t afford it.
The former actor responded bluntly: “I’m going to continue to get my wife pregnant 👍.”
When another reviewer told him to “move to a small town, put your skills to good use and get a job like everyone else,” he responded, “No. I’m busy building a farm and feeding my family and community 👍.”
In Hall’s description page for his GoFundMe, he said he “really needed help” as his family moved to rural Arkansas.
“It’s now been six years since I self-canceled, and I’ve avoided doing one the entire time,” he wrote. “I always said it was my choice, and so I didn’t want to take this glorious burden off my shoulders unless there was no other choice. Well, here we are.”
“I’m a little behind on the few bills we have (phone, propane for the camper and unexpected electrical hookup service charges),” he also shared.
While his goal was $2,000, he has since raised more than $23,000.
Hall is best known for playing Alfalfa Switzer in 1994’s “Little Rascals.”
He has had several run-ins with the law since leaving Hollywood in 2020 to live off-grid in poverty, including getting arrested in Texas for allegedly breathing in air bombs in June 2020.
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