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“George and Amal are trying to keep things very low-key, but they also aren’t really trying to hide this, it doesn’t seem,” a source told the magazine.
A beaming Alamuddin was spotted showing off a brand-new sparkler to
model Cindy Crawford as the trio dined at Nobu Malibu on Thursday, according to “Entertainment Tonight,” which quoted “multiple” sources.
It hasn’t been revealed when Clooney proposed to the raven-haired
Alamuddin, but it may have been on a recent vacation in ritzy Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico, Us Weekly reported.
The couple was spotted “toasting their engagement” at celebrity hotspot Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood on April 23, according to the magazine.
They were first spotted out together in London in October — and have been inseparable ever since.
Alamuddin, an alum of the NYU School of Law, worked as a student law clerk for now-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
“This is the healthiest relationship I’ve ever seen George in,” a source recently told Us Weekly.
“He seems incredibly happy, and Amal is such a sweet and intelligent
girl, who has her own thoughts and ideas and doesn’t just bow down to
everything he says.”
Two sources told People they saw Clooney and Alamuddin celebrating the
engagement at Craig’s, with Alamuddin sporting a “huge ring.”
The “Monuments Men” star was married once before. He tied the knot with
actress Talia Balsam in 1989, but the couple divorced four years later.
Since then, Clooney has dated a mind-boggling number of lovely ladies.
Hollywood’s most prolific bachelor’s former gal pals include model Lisa
Snowdon, Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis and former professional
wrestler and model Stacy Keibler.
Clooney and Keibler, 34, split in July after a two-year relationship.
Keibler married businessman Jared Pobre in March and they are expecting a
child. ndillon@nydailynews.com
International Lawyer And Scholar Amal Alamuddin Engaged To George Clooney
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Amal
Alamuddin, a lawyer whose work includes issues related to Syria, drones
and Wikileaks, is engaged to George Clooney, an actor. People Magazine broke the story noting
that Alamuddin and Clooney were spotted at Nobu in Malibu, where they
were dining with Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber (both
friends of Clooney’s). Alamuddin was seen at the dinner wearing what
looked like an engagement ring on her left ring finger. One of People
Magazine’s exclusive sources said, ”Clooney popped the question” and
“George and Amal are trying to keep things very low-key but they also
aren’t really trying to hide this, it doesn’t seem. I think it’s like
they want the people they love to know that this is real, that they plan
on being together forever.”
Alamuddin, is an accomplished international lawyer. She holds a B.A.
and L.L.B. from St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University (where she won
the Shrigley Award) and also holds a Masters of Law (L.L.M.) degree from
New York University School of Law (where she earned the Jack J. Katz
Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law). She practiced for
several years at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s New
Amar Alamuddin, an accomplished international lawyer who has
represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and has worked on matters
related to drones and Syria, is reportedly engaged to George Clooney, an
actor.
York office, where she was a member of the Criminal
Defense and Investigations Group. There her clients included Enron and
Arthur Andersen.
In her current position as a barrister in London (Bar of England
& Wales, Inner Temple) Alamuddin has represented clients in cases
before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of
Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in domestic
courts in the U.K. and the U.S.. Alamuddin has also represented
controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in extradition
proceedings in the U.K. and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuila
Tymonshenko before the European Court of Human Rights. Amal previously
served as legal adviser to the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for
Lebanon and as legal adviser to the head of UNIIIC in Beirut.
In addition to individual clients Alamuddin has provided advice to
governments on matters related to international law and is an appointed
member of a variety of United Nations commissions, including serving
as Counsel to the inquiry into the use of drones in counterterrorism
operations, led by U.N. Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and
human rights, Ben Emmerson QC. She is an appointed adviser to Kofi
Annan, the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League
on Syria, and she is the legal adviser to the head of the U.N.
commission investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime
Minister Hariri and other terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
Alamuddin is also a scholar, she co-edited the book The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Law and Practice.
The book examines the law and procedure of the Special Tribunal for
Lebanon, the first international court created in response to a
terrorist act, the tribunal was established to try those responsible for
the 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri. She also co-authored an
article in the prestigious Journal of International Criminal Justice in
which she and her co-author examined
the expansion of the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over
the use of prohibited weapons in international armed conflicts
(expanding jurisdiction to their use in internal armed conflicts). In
their words, “The amendment sends a signal that individuals should be
held accountable for using certain prohibited weapons regardless of the
scope of the armed conflict.” In a chapter she wrote for the book Contemporary Challenges for the International Criminal Court she
examined the role of the U.N. Security Council in starting and stopping
cases at the International Criminal Court, that book featured a bevy of
prominent international criminal law scholars including M. Cherif
Bassiouni, Mark Ellis, and William Schabas.
In addition to her writing, Alamuddin has served as a guest lecturer
on international criminal law at SOAS (University of London), The New
School in New York, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
LOS ANGELES — When Kim Hughes, then an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers,
was found to have prostate cancer on the eve of training camp in 2004,
he learned what it was like to work in Donald Sterling’s world.
Hughes
wanted to postpone surgery. The disease ran in the family, usually
slowly. But after Coach Mike Dunleavy encouraged Hughes to get another
opinion, the second doctor urged Hughes to have surgery quickly. When
Hughes contacted the Clippers about his health insurance coverage, he
was told the surgery was not covered. If they made an exception for him,
they would have to do so for everyone.
The cost would be $70,000.
Hughes
went ahead and had the surgery anyway. Unknown to him, four players —
Chris Kaman, Corey Maggette, Elton Brand and Marko Jaric — chipped in to
cover Hughes’s cost for the operation.
As
the N.B.A. investigates racist remarks that have been attributed to
Sterling, the longtime owner of the Clippers, the story of Hughes’s
surgery — which was not revealed for more than five years — helps
illustrate the reign of a man who has often been described as the worst
owner in professional sports.
Photo
The former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor in 2009, when he sued Donald Sterling, claiming racial discrimination.Credit
Reed Saxon/Associated Press
This
time, attention to Sterling’s behavior has transcended the sports world
with the release Friday night of an audio recording on which someone,
reportedly Sterling, urges a woman identified as his mistress at the
time not to appear in public with black people, leading to public
pressure on the league to force him to sell the franchise, which he has
owned since 1981.
Sterling’s behavior is not exactly a secret. It is a matter of public record.
In
2009, Sterling paid a $2.725 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by
the Justice Department accusing him of systematically driving
African-Americans, Latinos and families with children out of apartment
buildings he owned.
Alexandra
Castro, a former mistress of Sterling’s, testified in a lawsuit filed
against her by Sterling that he had asked her advice in 2001 on whether
to hire Alvin Gentry as coach — he did so — and on which players to
award contract extensions to. “It was purely sex for money,” Sterling
testified. “I probably didn’t tell my wife.”
Sterling
has been sued by the former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor, who
accused him of envisioning “a Southern plantation-type structure” for
the Clippers, and by Dunleavy, who accused Sterling of refusing to pay
him the balance of his contract after he was fired.
The
lawsuit against Castro is similar to one filed in March by Sterling’s
wife, Rochelle, against a woman identified as V. Stiviano, a more recent
mistress of Sterling’s. The suit is seeking to recover cash, property,
cars and other items that the Clippers say were worth $1.8 million.
Joe
Safety, a longtime Clippers public relations official who resigned last
year, was vigilant around Sterling because of the owner’s
unpredictability. It was not uncommon for Safety to aggressively cut off
reporters who tried to approach Sterling, who was a regular presence at
courtside or in the dining area adjacent to the media work room at
Staples Center.
Sterling’s
image was protected with similar tenacity. When charitable
organizations have honored Sterling with an award, Sterling’s foundation
has on multiple occasions taken out a full-page ad in The Los Angeles
Times congratulating Sterling. In 2006, an article in The Times said
that Sterling would pledge $50 million for construction of a homeless
center. It has not yet been built.
Sterling,
the son of a produce vendor, moved to Los Angeles from Chicago at a
young age, growing up in multiethnic East Los Angeles, where he
participated on the Roosevelt High School gymnastics team and worked
boxing groceries. He worked his way through law school selling furniture
and changed his last name from Tokowitz to Sterling because, as a
co-worker once told Los Angeles Magazine, it sounded like success.
Sterling
worked as a lawyer and began buying properties in the 1960s, when
immigration took off in California and land prices followed. At the same
time, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California
made his fortune the same way. His name was Jerry Buss.
The
paths of the two young, newly wealthy property owners would cross in
1979 when Buss was short of cash for his $67.5 million purchase of the
Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings, the Forum — the arena the
teams played in — and a 10-acre ranch. Needing $3 million to close the
deal, Buss sold some of his apartment buildings to Sterling. Two years
later, with Buss’s encouragement, Sterling bought the San Diego Clippers
for $12.7 million.
Sterling
did not take long to establish himself as a target for mockery.
Clippers billboards bearing his smiling face dotted the San Diego area.
He hired a former model as assistant general manager and celebrated a
season-opening win by dashing across the court — shirt unbuttoned, wine
glass held high — to hug Coach Paul Silas. By 1984, emboldened by the
Raiders’ relocating to Los Angeles without the N.F.L’s approval,
Sterling made a similar move with his N.B.A. team.
When
N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern fined him $25 million, Sterling sued
the league for $100 million. Stern cut the fine to $6 million, taking it
out of Sterling’s cut from expansion fees.
The
Clippers played in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, which proved
to be an apt home for 15 seasons. The Clippers’ identity in Los Angeles
did not take long to forge: A series of bad draft picks, bad trades and
injuries led to basketball that was sometimes comically bad.
Center
Benoit Benjamin, who overate, overslept and underwhelmed, became
symbolic of the Clippers. When Sterling refused to pay top dollar for
his players, they often bided their time until free agency; Ron Harper
likened his time with the team to a jail sentence. Danny Ferry, the No. 2
overall pick in 1989, did not wait that long. He refused to play for
the team from the start.
Sterling
rebuffed overtures from people who wanted to buy the Clippers and move
them and declined an invitation to relocate to Anaheim because he did
not want to drive another 25 miles to watch his team play. It cost so
little for the Clippers to play at the Sports Arena that Sterling was
not compelled to move. When he did agree to take his team 20 blocks
north to Staples Center when it opened in 1999, it was as the building’s
third tenant, behind the Lakers and the Kings.
It
was that status, as a cartoonish organization operating in the shadow
of the Lakers, that left so few taking the Clippers seriously. But in
recent years, their image — and Sterling’s — has begun to change. In the
last three seasons, the Clippers have been a winning team — something
that had happened just twice since Sterling purchased the team 33 years
ago — and a marketable one, too.
Last
summer, the Clippers hired Doc Rivers, one of the most respected
coaches in the league. At the end of his introductory news conference,
he was asked one final question. Having played for the Clippers in the
early 1990s, was he uncomfortable working for a team still owned by
Sterling?
Amar Alamuddin, an accomplished international lawyer who has
represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and has worked on matters
related to drones and Syria, is reportedly engaged to George Clooney, an
actor.
