Meet George Clooney's fiancée, Amal Alamuddin
Doughty Street Chambers
On Sunday, the relatively reputable gossip magazines People and Us Weekly both reported that George Clooney, one of the world's most eligible (and presumably hard to tie down) bachelors, is officially off the market. Clooney is engaged to British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin. Clooney, 52, and Alamuddin, 36, have been dating for about a year, but Clooney has dated quite a number of women since his first marriage to Talia Balsam ended in 1993. He married none of them.
So, who is Amal Alamuddin? She is an international lawyer who earned her law degree at Oxford and NYU and now practices as a barrister with London firm Doughty Street Chambers. While at NYU, Alamuddin clerked for federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is now a Supreme Court justice. Alamuddin's clients have included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian Prime Minister (and current presidential candidate) Yulia Tymoshenko, and the country of Cambodia. She has served on a number of United Nations commissions and advisory boards.
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