Sharon Stone claims she paid Leonardo DiCaprio’s salary for ‘The Quick and the Dead’

Sharon Stone says she shelled out Leonardo DiCaprio‘s salary for “The Quick and the Dead.”

The Hollywood icon opened up about working on the film, which she also co-produced, and securing the future star’s role in the film in her memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice.”

The movie sees Stone, now 63, play Ellen, a gunfighter who relocates to a rural town in the Old West and befriends DiCaprio’s character, simply called Kid.

Stone said that she and her fellow producers auditioned several young…