Amal Clooney is a Lebanese-British solicitor-practitioner specializing in international law and human rights. She has a number of high-profile clients, but while she ranks among the big names in the legal industry, she wasn’t well known beyond the confines of the legal community until her marriage to noted American actor, filmmaker and businessman George Clooney.
All of Hollywood and George’s fans have been waiting for more than twenty years, for more than twenty years, Talia Balsam hopes that he will find another woman who will restore his faith in love after his four-year marriage to his first wife. This woman is Amal, with whom he tied the knot on September 27, 2014 in Ca’ Farsetti.
Read on for more interesting information about the actor’s second wife and the mother of his twins.
Amal Clooney – Bio, Dude
The daughter of Ramzi Alam Uddin (father) and Bariaa Miknass (mother), was born Amal Alamuddin on February 3, 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon. She received her first name from the Arabic word “amal” which means hope due to the condition of her country at the time of her birth.
According to her mother, things didn’t go smoothly when she was pregnant with her (Amal). She had placenta previa and was hospitalized for two months. Despite being advised to lose the baby, she insisted on going ahead with the pregnancy and eventually baby Amal was born at a time when there was a temporary respite in the Lebanese civil war which took place from 1975 to 1990. Her father gave her the name Amal (Hope).
Ramzi, Amal’s father, who earned his master’s degree from the prestigious American University of Beirut, was the owner of the travel agency known as COMET, while her mother, a popular political journalist, is the editor of the pan-Arab newspaper, al-Hayat. She is also one of the brains behind the founding of International Communication Experts, a PR firm operating primarily in the Middle East.Amal Clooney has a sister named Tala and 2 half brothers Samer and Ziad, products of their father’s first union. During the Lebanon Civil War, Amal’s family moved from the countryside to Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. Although she didn’t initially know how to speak the English language, she eventually learned it by watching The Facts of Life show.
The Beirut-born lawyer attended an all-girls high school, Challoners High School (DCHS) in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, and later transferred to St Hugh’s College, Oxford, from where she earned a law degree in 2000. During her time at St Hughs she received an exhibition and the Shrigley Award.
In 2001, she received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement from New York University (NYU) for her postgraduate studies (LLM degree) and for her outstanding achievement in entertainment law. While attending New York University, Amal Clooney worked for a semester in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, who at the time was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Amal was admitted to the bar in the United States in 2002, admitted to the bar in New York. She has practiced, inter alia, at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
In New York, Amal worked for Sullivan & Cromwell for three years. There she belonged to the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group and had, among others, the clients Enron and Arthur Andersen.
In 2010 the barrister moved back to the UK and was admitted to the bar in England and Wales (Inner Temple) with Doughty Street Chambers. She has handled a number of cases involving high-profile individuals and organizations, including the Cambodian state, Abdallah Al Senussi – former Libyan intelligence chief, Yulia Tymoshenko – a Ukrainian politician, and FactsLeaks founder and director Julian Assange.
Amal Clooney is not only a lawyer, but also a lawyer lecturer. She has taught at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute, where she is a visiting scholar and senior fellow. She has also taught at a number of other schools including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of London, The Hague Academy of International Law, School of Oriental and African Studies Law School and The New School.
Wealth (income and earnings)
The international law and human rights advocate has made an impressive fortune estimated at US$10m (£7.4m) from her long legal practice. However, her husband’s net worth is reportedly several times higher, at $500 million (£380.9 million) to be exact.
your twins
Two years and a few months after Amal and George Clooney’s most high-profile wedding, it was reported on the talk show, The Conversation , which airs on CBS, that the couple were expecting their first babies, a set of twins.
The information was also confirmed to Entertainment Weekly by the couple’s close friend, actor Matt Damon. True to the news, Amal Clooney gave birth to a daughter, Ella, and a son named Alexander on June 6, 2017.
To give their babies the attention and care they need, the couple has enlisted the services of famed childcare expert Connie Simpson.
Height
The British-Lebanese national is dead Beautiful, no doubt about it. She is 175 cm tall and weighs 54 kg. She has brown eyes, dark brown hair and body measurements of 34 inches, waist – 26 inches and hips – 35 inches.
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