George Clooney's young wife contacted terrorists, the 64-year-old actor admitted 0 18

Hollywood actor George Clooney admitted on The Drew Barrymore Show that his wife Amal met with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is recognized as a terrorist organization in several countries, in London in 2012. Clooney shared this in response to Barrymore's question about how they met. He said that he began courting her after they met, and when he flew to London, he decided to invite her on a date. She responded that she was at a meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood discussing a new constitution for Egypt. He emphasized that Amal was working on promoting human rights.

Amal Clooney (born Amal Alamuddin, 1978) is a Lebanese-British lawyer (barrister) specializing in international law and human rights. She was born in Beirut, and during the civil war, her family moved to the UK, where Amal grew up and received her education. She graduated from the University of Oxford (St Hugh's College) and New York University, and is qualified to practice in the US and in England and Wales.

Clooney works at the Doughty Street Chambers in London and is considered one of the most well-known human rights advocates in the world. Among her clients are former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Nobel laureate Nadia Murad, journalist Maria Ressa, as well as journalists persecuted in Egypt, Myanmar, and other countries. She has participated in cases at the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals, worked with UN commissions, and taught human rights courses at Columbia University and Oxford.

In 2024, she joined the advisory panel to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which analyzed possible war crimes during the war between Israel and Hamas. The panel unanimously recommended filing requests for arrest warrants for both Hamas leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In 2024, George Clooney admitted that he had approached the White House for help in preventing his wife from facing sanctions that the US planned to impose on ICC officials if it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas.