Police Busted Clooney Scam

How on earth did George Clooney manage to go through being a great movie actor, charity main man to the most recent celebrity fraud victim?

Two people are presently under police inquiry for suspected scam in Milan for the ultimate clothing blunder—by, trying to open a fashion line under the sartorially debonair actor’s name.

Banking on a grievance filed by the Clooney in March, police seized an innumerable quantity of garments and watches, along with the mandatory phony credentials linking the assortment to the actor.

Information states that Clooney was sinking his comfortable toe into the fashion field started last month, when a press release, sloppily converted from Italian to English, started making the online excursions.

The articles, which also incorporated a bogus quote or two from the Leatherheads star, stated that GC Exclusive by George Clooney would comprise a variety of clothes for men and women and would unveil in a Milan show on April 20, featuring Clooney himself.

The academy award acclaimed actor vehemently denied his involvement and promised to take legal action to shake off any protracted apparent tie to the fashion pursuit.

“This is a hoax,” Clooney said in a statement last month. “I have no connection whatsoever with any clothing line bearing my name, and more specifically, GC Exclusive by George Clooney.”

Since the not so famous Italian fashion company behind the line established their phony declaration with the fake Clooney quotes and papers supposedly bannering the signature of a particular “George Timothy Clooney,” the actor’s legal panel treated it more critically than the typical online scam. “These people have no limits in what they are trying to forge,” Grazia Maria Mantelli, Clooney’s Italian legal counsel, told WWD last month. “Everything is an abuse of the name, image and everything.”

The scam and phony qualms were reported right away to the authorities by Mantelli.

Clooney released a caution of his own to the press in Rome Wednesday, where he was promoting his latest football movie.

“If someone tries to sell you clothes or watches that are based on me, don’t buy them.”

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