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George Clooney is 'dating Benazir Bhutto's niece'
2009-02-12
Mr Clooney has embarked on a long-distance relationship with Fatima Bhutto after meeting her at an international conference last year, the National Enquirer has reported. The 26-year-old is an outspoken poet and journalist born into Pakistan's greatest political dynasty who lives with her brother and step-mother in a prosperous suburb of Karachi.
Poet and journalist? Translation: she's a rich, bored parasite waiting her turn as the leader of the PPP.
America's top "supermarket tabloid" has alleged that the 47-year-old actor and political activist is smitten by the "brainy foreign beauty."

It quotes a friend of Mr Clooney's as saying: "George has courted her by phone and email, and arranged to meet her abroad when their schedules allowed.

"Now he wants her to spend time with him in Hollywood. He's still out there with his usual assortment of eye-candy hanging from his arm. But George insists those days could be coming to an end if Fatima wants to take their relationship to the next level."
Stay in Europe, honey, the boy-toys there at least can quote poetry ...
The unnamed friend added that Miss Bhutto is said to be worried about the 21-year age difference between herself and Mr Clooney. The friend said: "Fatima was educated at Columbia University [in New York] and knew of [Mr Clooney's] heart-throb rep.

"But she didn't take his advances seriously because she thought their age difference would make a serious relationship impractical."

Miss Bhutto is reported to be contesting her late aunt's former seat in the Larkana constituency in the next elections. She is also a prominent intellectual who has published a book of poetry, The Whispers of the Desert, and a memoir of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

Mr Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, is a famous journalist and politician in the US, and ran as a Democrat in the 2004 election for a seat in the House of Representatives.
Posted by:tipper

#9  Mr Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, is a famous journalist and politician in the US

I'm not sure about the politician part, but Mr. Nick Clooney was an news anchor on one of the local Cincinnati television stations. It is his sister, I believe, Mr. George Clooney's aunt, who is the famous singer Rosemary Clooney.
Posted by: trailing wife    2009-02-12 21:48  

#8  More to the point, will he be the trendsetter in Hollywood conversions to Islam?
Posted by: lotp   2009-02-12 21:42  

#7  Does this mean Clooney will have to limit himself to only 4 women at a time?
Posted by: ed   2009-02-12 16:56  

#6  Muslim women are not allowed on pain of death to marry infidels. Death for her and for him.
Posted by: JFM   2009-02-12 13:50  

#5  To say nothing about their religious differences - she worships a moon-god...

It is highly unlikely that she pays anything more than lip service to Islam. Most of the so-called elites in these countries exhibit an astonishing variability in their piousness.
Posted by: Trader_DFW   2009-02-12 12:46  

#4  "But she didn't take his advances seriously because she thought their age difference would make a serious relationship impractical."

To say nothing about their religious differences - she worships a moon-god and he worships himself. And while he may be 'Looney Clooney' I don't think it qualifies.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-02-12 11:55  

#3  He'll look good in salwar kameez and curly-toed slippers.
Posted by: Seafarious   2009-02-12 11:22  

#2  Hmmmmmm...Maybe this news puts Georgie on someone's list? Someone's list you don't wanna be on?
Posted by: tu3031   2009-02-12 11:03  

#1  should change his name to Clowney. The guy's a total narcissistic clown.
Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6   2009-02-12 11:02  

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