George Clooney's wedding has become one of the most long-awaited and at the same time amazing events - Hollywood's main bachelor George Clooney married his friend, lawyer Amal Alamuddin, but this could never have happened, at least a couple of years ago - that's what he thought himself Clooney.
Once he even made a bet with actress Michelle Pfeiffer that he would never marry, betting $100 thousand on the safety of his bachelor status, but how can you regret money when it comes to love!
Growing family
The longtime bachelor, who had publicly renounced marriage, surprised everyone when he proposed marriage in 2014 to international human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, a Lebanese immigrant from a prominent intellectual family. And in 2017 she gave birth to twins Ella and Alexander. Since becoming a family man, George's property needs have changed and this is reflected in his expanding portfolio.
Not everyone knows that for a long time Clooney shared his bedroom with Max the pig, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who lived for 18 years. After that, the actor kept dogs adopted from shelters.
Divorce: spouse's version
Later, in an interview with journalists from the cult magazine Vanity Fair, George Clooney reflected on the reasons why his marriage with Talia was unsuccessful. In parting with Bolsam, he blamed, first of all, himself, or rather, his young age. “Obviously, I was not yet ready to take such a decisive step. – the celebrity recalls. “Besides, I gained a lot of weight and tried to lead a healthy lifestyle. The idea of losing weight and improving my health occupied all my thoughts. I didn’t help my young wife develop and grow as an actress at all. I just didn't give her a chance to win."
After the first failure, Clooney swore off ever getting married. The fact is that during the divorce process he lost most of his income. The cunning Talia managed to sue her ex-husband for a substantial sum. In addition, all legal costs were paid mainly by George Clooney.
As the actor recalls, he offered his wife an amicable agreement. “I would write a check for whatever amount she said. But instead I lost $80,000 in attorney fees." Such injustice haunted the ER star for a long time. He was so offended by his ex-wife's behavior that he vowed never to marry again.
Six-Bedroom Villa, Studio City, Los Angeles
Clooney's first big purchase was a six-bedroom villa in the popular Studio City shopping center in Los Angeles, which he bought in 1995 for $2.2 million.
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Clooney opened the door to discussing his personal life for the first time in 2012, showing off his 6,000-square-foot home, which he bought from Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks.
An impressive three-story hotel with an outdoor swimming pool, a basketball court, a cinema hall, tennis courts, and a vast garden made Clooney feel like a rich homeowner, because as a child he and his parents constantly roamed around rented apartments.
His Los Angeles villa has a spacious kitchen with an island and a breakfast bar, where Clooney likes to drink his morning coffee. The hotel also has an outdoor swimming pool, bar and tennis courts. The star quickly gained fame for her legendary evenings. It is one of Clooney's first major purchases and a place he often calls "home."
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Studio City, where George's Los Angeles mansion is located, is located on a hilltop surrounded by parkland.
When the house served as his bachelor pad, Clooney often had friends here. But the chic home decor seen here wasn't Clooney's own choice. The actor's best friend, Rande Gerber, told George that as an older man, he should abandon his boy-brother image and renovate.
Actively looking
He was lucky to be born into a friendly and loving family, which had more than just bright spots. Mom is a former Miss Kentucky. Nina Bruce is now well over seventy, but she looks amazing, and is even among the youngest-looking celebrity mothers.
Father - TV presenter Nick Clooney, has made an excellent career. He hosted the show for more than ten years and was even elected to Congress, but lost the election. When television switched to a new format, my father did not fit in and was fired.
The family had to move from a good home to the wilderness. But a few years later he returned to television and worked not only on talk shows, but also as a news director on one of the channels. His son looks very similar to him. However, he also adopted his efficiency, irony and balanced character.
George has an older sister, Adelia, who does not appear in public, lives with her husband and two children: they are already well into their twenties.
Clooney's school years taught him to resist attacks from his peers. An open and sociable guy, he became withdrawn when he was deprived of facial expressions of part of his face for almost a year by an illness that is inherited.
He fought bullying with a win-win method: he was the first to start making fun of his shortcomings and thereby made the offenders laugh, who retreated. The actor’s extraordinary sense of humor is still appreciated by all his relatives and friends.
After successful treatment, the teenager became interested in baseball, even connected his future with it, but he was not accepted into the team.
Clooney didn't know what to do, despite his early understanding of the television profession. He did not want to follow in his father's footsteps, so he entered the law faculty of the university. He liked student life, but not studying. He was expelled for poor academic performance, and he stood at a crossroads. My cousin, who starred in the film, helped me decide and offered Clooney a small role for fun. Actor Miguel Ferrar, one might say, discovered George Clooney to the world. He liked the process, however, that film was never released. But for the sake of the role, he was ready to do anything: he worked wherever he could to provide himself with the opportunity to study courses and participate in numerous castings.
His son’s parents reacted negatively to this idea, so he had to ask his aunt in Los Angeles. Rosemary Clooney was not against her 21-year-old nephew moving in with her. She lived in a mansion befitting her star status. An actress and singer, she earned fifteen gold discs during her creative life, was friends with Kennedy and witnessed his assassination. The fate of this woman, who played an important role in the development of the actor, is bright and eventful and requires special attention. Her death in 2002 was a shock to the family and George personally. He learned this while he was famous while filming Solaris (his second collaboration with director and friend Soderbergh).
The path to the big screen took Clooney nine long years.
Villa Oleandra, Lake Como, Italy
It's no secret that Clooney is a big fan of Italian culture. He fell in love with Lake Como in the early 2000s and has since invested millions in the Italian real estate market. Lake Como was personally chosen by the star as the filming location for his 2004 blockbuster.
The Villa in Italy is an 18th-century home on picturesque Lake Como, purchased in 2001 for $13.5 million. Fans and journalists often flock to its entrance in hopes of capturing images of Clooney and his family. The luxurious 25-room property contains an outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, a gym and a garage where the actor keeps his extensive collection of vintage motorcycles.
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The Clooney family spends the summer every year in a house in Como. Recent visitors have included Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon and Harry and Meghan Markle.
His battle with the paparazzi reached its climax in 2020 when the mayor was forced to issue a restrictive order preventing fans and media from approaching his home.
How Talia sees it
The actor’s first wife practically does not comment on the incident in infrequent interviews and private conversations. On the contrary, she calls her ex-husband a cutie and a very good person.
She holds no grudge against George and feels quite comfortable in casual encounters. The ex-spouses even starred in one popular TV series Mad Men as... a married couple. It looks like Clooney and Balsam have buried their hatchet deep.
The first wife is happily married to actor John Slattery, whom she married five years after her divorce from Clooney. She acts quite a bit and is not as popular as George, but she seems to be absolutely happy with the way her life has turned out.
9 bedroom estate, Berkshire, UK
Increasingly aware of the need to hide from the paparazzi, newlyweds George and Amal chose Berkshire in England rather than Los Angeles to begin their married life together. How can we not remember Megan, who, in order to hide from the paparazzi, went with Harry in the opposite direction.
The estate cost Clooney and his wife $12.5 million. The Grade II listed country estate has served as a retreat for George and Amal since purchasing it and became the couple's escape to for their honeymoon.
Immaculately renovated in 2014, the mansion sits on a 5-acre private island, making it the perfect place for George and Amal to raise their children away from the media.
Although the historic home has received a modern update, it continues to retain its charm, from the parquet wood floors to the series of grand fireplaces.
George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin: together or not?
George Clooney's close circle said that the reason would be that two adults, independent people would not be able to get along under one roof for a long time, but, according to Western tabloids, the reason for the separation (and the couple had allegedly already gone to different homes) was the handsome actor's reluctance to have children and, on the contrary, Amal’s keen desire to become a mother.
“They still love each other, but they realize they want different things in life. When George and Amal first announced their relationship, friends found them to be the perfect couple. But now part of their circle is awaiting divorce. Amal constantly put pressure on George to have children. At first he reluctantly agreed, but later retracted his words. So Amal is depressed. At the moment they are living different lives... In the event of a divorce, Amal will receive his fortune and a villa on Lake Como,” a source told one of the tabloids.
And Clooney's fortune, for a minute, is $300 million. It is not known whether the couple entered into a prenuptial agreement, which in this case would rather protect the actor than help his wife, but if not, then the wife is a lawyer, and a high-class lawyer, she may well try to sue the star of the film “From Dusk Till Dawn” his entire fortune.
It turns out that what Clooney was so afraid of - losing his bachelor's freedom because of a woman and being left in his declining years without money - may well happen.
