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Thursday, September 7, 2017

George Clooney Reveals a Yazidi Refugee Is Living in His Home



In The Hollywood Reporter's cover story, Clooney reveals that he and his wife are boarding the man in a house the actor-director maintains in Augusta, Ky. "He was on this bus to Mosul, and ISIS shot the two bus drivers and said, 'Anybody who wants to go to college, we will shoot them,' " says Clooney.

Clooney has been praised for his philanthropic work, including in Sudan, a cause he picked up after reading 12 years ago about a program of ethnic cleansing that the government was carrying out in its western region, Darfur.

He's begun to track the politicians' and military leaders' personal revenue, hiring forensic accountants formerly with the FBI, who have already unearthed some $4 billion in misappropriated funds.

He's also contacted the heads of several major banks to warn them against supporting South Sudan's leadership and believes he has had some success in persuading them, though he won't name names.

Meanwhile, Clooney, along with his Casamigos Tequila partners Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman, recently sold their company to beverage giant Diageo for $700 million, with the possibility of another $300 million down the pike.

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