As we discussed yesterday, Amal Clooney was in the Maldives visiting one of her clients, the former president, Mohamed Nasheed. She visited him in jail, gave a brief statement to the press and…? I don’t know what else she’s doing. Probably working on some legal briefs or something. But in case you were wondering, People Magazine has the scoop! They did a story on Wednesday called “Amal Clooney Facing ‘Really Dangerous’ Situation While on Maldives Business Trip: Source.” Inside the exclusive report, sources tell People Magazine that The Unicorn faces dangerous situations all the time because she’s amazing, of course. I did learn something new: she’s working on Nasheed’s case pro bono. Oh, and buried at the end, there’s something interesting about a beauty contract. Some highlights:
Amal’s tough spot: A source says, “Amal is in a pretty rough spot right now in the Maldives. President Nasheed is a really good, forward-thinking man, in a really dangerous situation, and Amal being there is really tricky and really dangerous.”
Her co-counsel was stabbed in the head? Just ahead of Clooney’s visit, her co-counsel Mahfooz Saeed was stabbed in the head on Sept. 4 by masked men outside his Malé hotel and remains in critical condition in a local hospital. Immediately following the ambush, Amnesty International called for an impartial investigation.
Amal is amazing: “She’s in a place she knew was dangerous going in, but this is her [work]. She’s doing such an amazing job and taking such big risks and doing it all for no money. These are cases that aren’t easily won. She’s always been this way. She did a little bit of corporate law early on in New York and realized it was boring and she wanted to be a human rights attorney. It’s what drives her. It’s not about fame or money or any of that for her.”
She turned down a modeling contract: Recently offered a multi-million contract with a luxury brand, she turned it down, confirms a representative for the Clooneys, adding, “She was very flattered but it’s just not what she’s interested in doing. She’s been offered huge amounts of money to not do this job and to just be famous and pretty and stylish. But she doesn’t even blink. She says, ‘That’s not who I am and that’s not what I do.’ “
Well… I mean, I genuinely like the fact that she hasn’t quit her job, because I really did think she would quit in the first year of being married to George Clooney. So I’ll give her that. Of course, I’ve complained because it doesn’t really seem like Amal does that much barristering work – she’s rarely doing a 9-5 gig, she picks and chooses her cases, and she’s mostly part of larger teams of lawyers/barristers sharing a workload. She takes off for weeks/months at a time. But sure, as I said, I’m glad she’s still using her position/privilege to do the work she enjoys.
I chuckled at this line though: “She’s been offered huge amounts of money to not do this job and to just be famous and pretty and stylish.” FOOLS! She will be famous, pretty and stylish AND be a barrister. Don’t ask her to quit her job, when she’s made it perfectly clear that she will keep her job and hair-toss her way through the Met Gala red carpet, and pap strolls and tequila launches and the Golden Globes.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet, WENN.
I bet she did…
Yawnnnnnn.
So Over These two and their PR machines.
She’s not that pretty nor charismatic. Ivy league lawyers are dime a dozen. stop pimping her.
Spot on.
Right on the money.
It is possible to send Amug, Goopy, Manselle, SkeezAnn Grimes, The Kardoucheians, etc., to a deserted island where they will all be forgotten about?
So when does the pretty start? https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1370/700/original.jpg She’s being paid much more to be Kloony.
I don’t get the attraction either.
You don’t have to slam and insult her because media is writing this stuff about her. She’s not giving interviews saying “I’m so pretty and attractive”, journalists are doing that. But you’re using what others are saying to insult her and her looks which is very ugly to me.
No – she’s not SAYING “I’m so pretty…”
But dressed to the nines, hair-tossing and smirking in full hollywood makeup, jewellery, designer gear – TO VISIT A PRISON- she sure is making a big attempt to look her very best for the press.
Compare with the local lawyers, or with the old photos with Julian Assange when she didn’t look great nor try to in her down at heel beige clothing. She’s not giving interviews, but “I’m so pretty” is implicit in everything she does and is underpinned by the Clooney PR machine promoting her 100% of the time.
Oh god that gold dress… That dress is Amal’s equivalent of the beige booty shorts. I still like her though.
Are we all going in on an anniversary gift?
First year is paper, right? Lottery tickets?
I can chip in for that. I’m sure his paper gift to her is a contract extension.
I liked Stephen Colbert’s gift: A Tiffany paperweight engraved with the words “I don’t know you”.
She already HAS a multi-million dollar contract for being pretty. It’s called being George’s wife.
She doesn’t want to be famous….. RIGHT! Lmao. This homegirl is loving every minute of her new found fame thanks to her sponsor husband. Seriously, The Kloons PR machine needs to stop over selling her.
When you get clothing “for free”, “on loan”, or “at a much reduced price”; you are essentially getting compensated for the “pap exposure”. There may not be an official “multi-million dollar contract”, but there is an understanding…quid pro quo. Any way you spin it, the denial and half-truths are off-putting. It would be more convincing if you don’t say anything.
I came here to say the same! Hahahahahahahahaha
@Kaiser: if she quits being a barrister, I think her major (marriage) contract (allegedly) will be over…
Yes, and she has to continue being this amazing unicorn international “human rights” barrister/lawyer because it’s in the marriage contract to make George look more esteemed in the eyes of the world…
Speaking of which, has anyone else noticed that their PR has moved away from mentioning the despots she used to defend and is focused solely now on her cases of those wrongly-imprisoned or in serious danger – all pro-bono, of course.
+1,000,000, Sugar! She accepted the offer, all right…….
And that’s about as close as People will ever get to admitting to George’s contracts….
Clooney is not the movie star in the league of Tom Cruise, if i were up to being a contract wife I’d rather sign TC’s contract who actually has money to draw such contracts
But then you’re surrounded and controlled by a bunch of Scientologists, and you live with the knowledge that you’re essentially benefiting from slave labor. I don’t think George is a great prize, but I’d take him over crazy cultist TC any day.
Id rather get a few million less over the lifetime of the marriage being with Clooney who still seems to have all his marbles, than overcompensated for the abuse you put up with in the $cientology breeding program. It sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
Those white gloves should get a contract
LMAO
They mean her Law firm isn’t getting paid. She is part of a team of lawyers and I am pretty sure she isn’t lead counsel, but her being v public/famous does put more of a spotlight on whatever her team are working on. Like others said tired of the PR machine and them if they are happy great just disappear for a while / year or 2.
Chambers, not firm. She is not an employee. There is no way a barrister would be instructed to work on a case, let alone high profile cases, if they were not up appropriately qualified and experienced.
Except she’s junior to a qualified and experienced lead counsel, often a QC. She’s not particularly qualified or experienced herself.
Amal get’s millions just being married to George and she doesn’t really have a career she shows up every few months poses for the paps, reads usually a badly worded statement and does interviews on cases she is just the jnr and part of a huge team who actually do the work. The biggest problem is that Amal has about as much charisma as wet cement and people don’t like her. So she did that luxury brand a favor their sales wouldn’t have increased. When she divorces George she will get millions anyway. George needs to STFU about his amazing brilliant wife she hasn’t even won a case and in the legal world Amal Clooney is a huge joke and will never get anywhere. So she will resign it’s just when! And everyone has cottoned on to how little Amal works she is way too busy with her new lifestyle.
Attorneys do a ton of work behind a door, not out in the public arena. How would you know that she doesn’t have a career? Even if she did cut back when she married him, which is obvious, I have no doubt she still puts in many hours on the cases she has, not just showing up for pap shots.
It’s ridiculous that people are commenting on her professionalism and the quality of her work when frankly they are not qualified to do so. And as for the levels of vitriol for a person they have presumably never met.
From an English lawyer, who is not aware of her being considered a huge joke in the legal world.
Well said DanaG.
LOL. I’m sure you have no clue what she is doing with her time. It’s laughable that anyone here would comment on her workload or how she’s handling it. Are you there watching her? Do you hang out at her house or on a plane to see if she’s got a laptop open working on briefs? Too funny.
Here we go again over selling her greatness by clooney PR, is not true she get buy a she is part of a team & she work for a chamber & she is not the leader in this case as well a man is the leader, George PR have to stop making her a great humanitarian as she’s not, & tabloids gossip don’t know what going on with this case as the man they defending is guilty tabloids just reporting what the PR told them, finally she is in a free country & she had with lot of bodyguards compared to the man that got stabbed who he is a local lawyer & doesn’t have the mean to protect himself
Employing her would be a pain in the butt. And yellow is not her color.
Eh…just to give her a chance. Maybe sometimes they pimp her so hard to keep her safe. If we pay attention to her, her whereabouts, and her cases we would know if something happens to her. It makes her a target, but a more difficult target to access. Her co-counsel was stabbed in the head.
I’ll take good PR, oversaturation, and paparazzi any day if it keeps me from meeting the same fate.
No she was not getting more attention from legit outlets so they using the stab local lawyer who doesn’t have bodyguards to promote the case or get sympathy of the public
I’m sorry but that just ridiculous. How did she to survive before George or all the other lawyers survive without photo ops? Come on she like the media attention she get by being Mrs. Clooney.
Someone for Nasheed said in an interview recently that Amal was working for her lower than usual rate with a % discount but not pro bone.
Clooney PR at it again. They just can’t seem to get out of their one note media workings. Amal must be lionized at all costs even when people barely believe any of it now.
Agreed – there is a lot of conflicting information. What is fact versus fiction (read as PR spin)?
I am a consultant. I mostly work from home, go into the office occasionally and travel for work a bit. Because I don’t have to be anywhere specific other than client trips I’ve worked from my parents house, the beach, Europe, etc. I have no idea if Amal works hard or not, but there are jobs where you can be successful and not sit behind the same desk every day. Slam her for her fashion choices but not jump to conclusions about work just because it’s not what you are used to. I know many people like me. Yes it’s a privilege, yes I work my butt off. Her work situation is plausible.
Agree
While I admit the whole unicorn Amal thing is annoying, I am really over the fact you consider her a half-working barrister based on the fact she can “take months off”. She is a well established lawyer and she is in the position to pick which cases she will take – and it is pretty obvious she had to work her whole life to be where she is. And.. just because she is at some seaside, doesn’t mean she is not working while she’s not photographed. I adore celebitchy.com, but for this perpetual (dare I say jealous) bitchiness in this sense might be the reason I stop reading. peace
Actually, she’s not particularly established. She is a junior barrister of very recent call and she isn’t in a position to pick and choose her cases. She is junior barrister on every case that we hear about. There’s nothing wrong with that, and barristers can work as much or as little as they want to/can afford to, but at her stage of career, she could not afford to take as much time off as she does, without money from a different source from her barrister income.
Thank you for your reply, I would not have any problem with any of the things said in the original post above if this had been the way they were articulated.
She’s carved out an interesting new niche career – glamour attorney. She reminds me a little of the career Barbie dolls. I gave my niece a “Barbie as Pet Vet” that is her favorite. Anyway, Amal has a glamour attorney wardrobe and fab hair. A key difference of course is that she has an elite education.
She should just say she’s not interested in being a spokesmodel for a brand right now, but I do think it’s coming- she’s already all of the things she says she doesn’t want to be lol.
How is it dangerous to fly to a luxury holiday hotspot while filmed by the world press? It’s not exactly Syria is it.
I like her *ducks to avoid tomatoes.* She is smart, values education and intelligence, and seems to have fun with life. So she smiles around paps–what is she supposed to do? Scowl? So she makes sure to have blow-outs and wear makeup–I can imagine she feels immense pressure to look as good as someone who was at various points considered the world’s most attractive man. Overall, she works, doesn’t seem to let criticism get her down, and is unabashedly herself. I’m a fan.
Me too. I’ve always liked Amal.
I like her as well.
Firstly being “just famous and pretty” is her husband’s job, or at least part of his job description. She, on the other hand, has stuff to do like call out Egypt’s judicial system.
I don’t get the hate on her schedule. We have no idea how hard she works when she’s not on display and in fact I’m willing to bet that even when she appears to be living it up, she’s still connected. No-one calls out big time CEOs or whatever that appear to vacation the whole month of August in the Hamptons.
I have to laughed with this article, George Clooney thinks he is Amal trophy husband and was told to be just shiny and pretty when they socialized with Amal intelligent colleagues.
“What is it like to be the arm candy in a relationship, because she’s the very serious person?” Colbert asked Clooney. “She must say like, ‘We’re going to meet extremely intelligent people tonight – these are not show folk. Just be shiny and pretty.”
“That’s mostly what I do,” Clooney confirmed.
Role reversal George?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/09/10/george-clooney-admits-amal-trophy-husband-in-colbert-late-show-debut/?
They do look very good together. I think that she is a nice girl – there’s been nothing that would point out the opposite. Has she just been showered with too much good luck?
Clooney looks actually very shiny and pretty in this interview )) hopefully his health issues are resolved.
Lol. Yes the human rights lawyer is such a loser.
Why would anyone pay her anything to just be famous and pretty? She does it for free all the time with her pap walks. She’ll even smile right into the camera and bask visibly without prompting.
When did the Maldives become such a dangerous place to visit or is it dangerous just for Amal Clooney?
I believe she already has what she wanted, she doesn’t need any modelling contract. And the only potential danger I can see her in, is starving herself to death.
Yes, and she only poops glitter dust.