Revered Hollywood actor, producer, screenwriter and director, George Clooney, once gifted 14 of his closest friends a staggering $1million each in 2013.
Rande Gerber had disclosed the actor’s philanthropy on MSNBC back in 2017.
Gerber revealed that the high profile star visited a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles to pick up $14 million in cash to surprise them.
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However, George has come forward to confirm the report for the first time, during an interview with GQ on November 17, 2020,
Clooney in his narration stated his friends have been very helpful from his broke days and there was no better way to pay for their actions.
He said: “I just thought basically if I get hit by a bus, they’re all in the will. So why the f**k am I waiting to get hit by a bus?
“And I thought, what I do have are these guys who’ve all, over a period of 35 years, helped me in one way or another. I’ve slept on their couches when I was broke. They loaned me money when I was broke.
“They helped me when I needed help over the years. And I’ve helped them over the years. And I thought, you know, without them I don’t have any of this.
“I just held up a map and I just pointed to all the places I got to go in the world and all the things I’ve gotten to see because of them, and I said, ‘How do you repay people like that?’ And I said, ‘Oh, well: How about a million bucks?’”
George Clooney is a recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo.
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