George Clooney | |
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Organization | Smokehouse Pictures Casamigos |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Talia Balsam ( m. 1989; div. 1993) Amal Alamuddin ( m. 2014) |
Children | 2 |
Actors like John Cena, Natalie Portman, and Jimmy Fallon met their spouses while filming. George Clooney, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Seth Meyers are married to lawyers. Jon Bon Jovi married his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley.
Mark Geragos. Celebrity clients: Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Chris Brown and Scott Peterson Mark Geragos might be the most "famous" of the celebrity attorneys, at least if measured by how often we see him in the news. Geragos was hired then fired by Michael Jackson to defend him against molestation charges,...
There is little fame in the law firm game. But some lawyers represent celebrities, and it seems like once they start they just can't stop themselves. Some enjoy the perks of representing big-name clients quietly.
Here are 29 stars who married non-celebrities. Miranda Lambert secretly wed husband Brendan McLoughlin, a police officer with the NYPD, in 2019. Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin at the 2020 CMA Awards.
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Attorney and activist Amal Alamuddin Clooney has a distinguished career focused on international law and human rights issues. She is married to actor George Clooney.
George ClooneyGeorge Clooney, long considered Hollywood's most eligible bachelor, married British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin Saturday in a private ceremony in Venice, Italy, his publicist, Stan Rosenfield, told CNN.
Amal Clooney is well-known for her work in public international law, international criminal law and human rights. She has defended the rights of many neglected and marginalized groups, individuals, journalists - and also government leaders stripped of their power.
Fatou Bensouda. The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda is one of the world's most influential human rights lawyers working today.
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barristerAmal Clooney is a barrister who specializes in international law and human rights. She represents clients before international courts, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
Amal Clooney Net Worth: Amal Clooney is a London-based British-Lebanese lawyer, activist, and author who has a net worth of $50 million.
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George Clooney (R) and Amal Alamuddin (L), his Lebanon-born British fiancee take a taxiboat upon their arrival in Venice, on September 26, 2014, on the eve of their wedding. Photo: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Image
U.S. actor George Clooney travels in a taxi boat (2nd L) in the Grand Canal in Venice, ahead of a gala dinner September 27, 2014. The world's most famous bachelor, Clooney, welcomed more A-list stars to Venice on Saturday for his wedding to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, with details of the long weekend bash kept as hazy as the morning fog over the Grand Canal. Photo: REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
U.S. actor George Clooney, long considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, married Lebanese-British lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice, Italy Saturday, Sept. 27. The couple were joined by the cream of the international entertainment industry.
The world's most famous bachelor, George Clooney, welcomed more A-list stars to Venice on Saturday for his wedding to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, with details of the long weekend bash kept as hazy as the morning fog over the Grand Canal.
The world's most famous bachelor, George Clooney, welcomed more A-list stars to Venice on Saturday for his wedding to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, with details of the long weekend bash kept as hazy as the morning fog over the Grand Canal. Photo: REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
Jeff Bridges and Susan Geston have been married for over 40 years. Susan Geston and Jeff Bridges at the 2017 Kentucky Derby. Robin Marchant/Getty Images. Geston was working as a waitress on a ranch when Bridges met her. He was there filming "Rancho Deluxe.".
Roberts met cinematographer Moder when they were both working on the set of "The Mexican" and married in 2002. They have three children .
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Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Montclair Film Festival. Stewart met McShane when they were set up on a blind date by a crew member from a shoot in lower Manhattan. The former "Daily Show" host and former veterinary technician married in 2000, and they have two kids .
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Streep married Gummer in 1978 and they have four kids.
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Italian model and presenter Elisabetta Canalis dated the eligible bachelor for two years before going through a “very difficult and very personal” break-up in 2011.
The Cloon-Dawg met French waitress and law student Celine Balitran while he was in Paris filming The Peacemaker in 1996. They started dating, and she moved to Los Angeles with him, only for them to part company three years later.
Actor George Clooney is engaged to a British human rights lawyer who has represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former Ukraine prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, according to reports. Amal Alamuddin, 36, a London-based barrister, was born in Beirut and is fluent in French and Arabic. She has also worked as an adviser to former United ...
In a classy Vegas ceremony just weeks after his split from Preston. They divorced three years later – a relative lifetime in Hollywood. “I probably – definitely – wasn’t someone who should have been married at that point,” he told Vanity Fair. George Clooney's Women.
Amal, 36 , is an educated and successful career woman we’ve long admired. The high-flying barrister has notched up many career highs, including representing the controversial WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange, and also has multilingual fluency in English, French and Arabic.
Amal attended St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, earning her BA/LLB and receiving the Exhibitioner, Shrigley Award. She also attended New York University School of Law earning her LLM and receiving the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award.
Mark Stephens, the solicitor who hired Amal to represent Assange: “She is a fabulously bright woman, she’s independent, has a Rolls-Royce mind and intersocial skills to die for.” Translation: she is awesome.
Amal Alamuddin, a London-based dual-qualified English barrister and New York litigation attorney who has long been a high-profile figure in international refugee and human rights law, has gone against the trend for professional women in her field and married… some actor guy.
He’s probably a nice man, but seems to be a bit c lingy, as since she met him it’s hard to find a photo or footage of Amal without him hanging around in the background.
Little is known of Amal’s earlier relationships (we assume she was climbing that corporate ladder and smashing glass ceilings) but she’s tying the knot with an actor, whose name is George Clooney, we’re told.
As TheHomeDweller outlines, a true testament to her character is her decision to find time to serve on the expert panel of Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (formed by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague) to gather evidence of sexual crimes committed in conflict zones.
2 Bradley Cooper And Jennifer Esposito Had A Four Month Marriage. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito never went into much detail publicly about their marriage and why it only lasted four months, but what we do know is that they were married in late December of 2006, and it was all over by May of 2007.
The couple managed to make it 72 days as husband and wife before things came to a crashing halt, and surprisingly, this is a lot longer than many other celebs.
Ali Landry and Mario Lopez’s marriage could possibly have lasted longer than 18 days if he hadn’t cheated on her days before they said: “I do.”. The couple had been together for six years before they made the decision to get married in Mexico in 2004, where they were surrounded by their family and friends.
There was also a bit of an age gap between them because the actress was only 19 at the time, while Thomas was 32. Unsurprisingly, getting into a marriage with someone you hardly know when you’re a teenager seldom ends in success and 39 days later, Barrymore filed for divorce.
Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds started dating in 2006 and became engaged 2007, and then on New Year’s Day in 2008 they had what seemed to be the perfect wedding celebration. But their sort-of-marriage only lasted two weeks, and unlike the other couples on this list, their marriage was not really legal.
The pair had known each other since they were 15, but got married in Las Vegas in 2004, with Paris Hilton as her sister’s bridesmaid, and Jeff Beacher as the groomsmen. Beacher shared his thoughts on the wedding, telling People magazine, “It was a beautiful, small wedding with an amazing energy.
In 2011, Sinead O’Connor got married for the fourth time, this time to Barry Herridge, a drug counselor. According to Daily Mail, they met online four months before they decided to get married at the famous Little White Chapel in Las Vegas.
John Grisham is best known for writing best-selling legal thrillers, but before he hit it big as an author he practiced law in Mississippi for 10 years, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury law. Nine of his novels, such as The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time to Kill, have been turned into movies, and he has more than 275 million books in print, in over 40 languages.
Since it’s hard to feed yourself as a poet, Stevens continued his legal work throughout his life, even after winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1955, eventually becoming vice-president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. His literary work is studied by school children nationwide.
Actor John Cleese never actually practiced law, but he did study it at Downing College in Cambridge before making it big in acting and comedy, perhaps as a backup option if acting didn’t pan out. Cleese is best known as part of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but has also starred in several other movies, including A Fish Called Wanda, The Pink Panther, and Shrek.
But he actually practiced law before becoming a broadcaster. He practiced union law in Manhattan , representing several athletes and Little League of New York. Cosell was asked to host a radio show for ABC that featured Little League players, which he did for three years, unpaid. The rest is sports broadcasting history.
Jan 14, 2016. By Laurie Junkins. Many celebrities were once just regular people doing their jobs, such as rock stars Gene Simmons and Sting, who were teachers before they became famous.
Scott Turow is another lawyer-turned-author, and has written nine best-selling books, including the one that launched his writing career, Presumed Innocent. Several of his books have been made into TV movies. Despite his success as a writer, Scott Turow continues to practice law in Chicago, specializing in white collar criminal defense and pro bono cases.
Gloria Allred. Gloria Allred is an attorney who became a celebrity because of her extreme outspokenness, courting of drama in the media, and controversial clients. She often represents those on the other side of celebrity cases, such as people who accuse the rich and famous of sexual harassment.
Geragos was hired then fired by Michael Jackson to defend him against molestation charges, but Geragos still testified on behalf of Jackson at trial. He also defended Winona Ryder in the case where she was convicted of shoplifting from Saks.
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Simpson, Mike Tyson, socialite Claus van Bulow and Patricia Hearst. Alan Dershowitz -- or "Dersh" as some of his students call him -- is a longtime Harvard professor and is best known to those under 35 for his participation in the O.J. Simpson trial.
Gloria Allred. Celebrity clients: The family of Nicole Brown Simpson, Paula Jones, Amber Frey (girlfriend of Scott Peterson) Gloria Allred has not met a media frenzy she doesn't like - even her website boasts that she is "the most famous woman attorney practicing law in the nation today.".
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Smith) It was one of the most publicized relationships at the time when Jolie and Pitt reportedly took a liking to one another while filming this movie. It was scandalous because Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time.
2 Miley Cyrus And Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) It was young love at its best. The pair, Cyrus only 17-years-old and Hemsworth 19, met on the set The Last Song in 2009 and it seemed to be fate. They dated for quite some time before breaking up, but then found their way to one another once again.
6 Richard Burton And Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra) Burton was married five times and Taylor eight, counting that they got married to each other twice. Their love story is often considered that one that began the concept of fan curiosity into the love lives of their favorite movie stars. While filming Cleopatra together in Italy, ...
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They remain married and currently live together in Portugal.
While filming Cleopatra together in Italy, Taylor and Burton began a torrid affair, seeing as they were both married to other people at the time. Paparazzi managed to get a photo of them on a yacht and that moment ushered in an entirely new era where celebrities were no longer able to keep their personal lives private.
But then Affleck became "Bennifer" with another Jennifer: Jennifer Garner.