George Foils Real Ocean's 11
Sandro Monetti reveals how life imitates art for ClooneyGeorge Clooney has foiled a gang of crooks who formed a real life Ocean's Eleven team to try to rob him of his millions. Inspired by his hit heist film, the criminals banded together to make a daring raid on the superstar's safe.
But they have failed with four separate attempts to pinch it and George has vowed they will never succeed.
He revealed: "I've now put a giant red bow around the safe and left a note attached saying 'Come and get me, you idiots!'"The thousand pound safe sits in the 25 room Italian villa that George now calls home for half the year. Each time the bungling burglars have broken in, they have failed to open it or remove it from the premises.
The first time they cased the joint, and on their second visit they put soap on the floor and slid the safe along until they were spotted and fled without their booty. The third time they got it almost to the door and on the fourth attempt it was standing a little closer to the exit - but again they did a runner empty handed after Clooney's security came close to catching them.
George expects them to try again but his taunting gesture with the ribbons suggests he thinks they are wasting their time. He also claims the heavy safe at his Lake Como home is empty - although the burglars clearly don't believe him.
Instead they suspect the former ER star has stashed in there some of the millions he's made from film hits like The Perfect Storm, Batman and Robin, Three Kings and one of the biggest successes of his career, Ocean's Eleven.
Clooney is currently putting together the sequel, Ocean's Twelve, in which he will reunite with original co-stars Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.
The storyline sees the crime gang getting back together to steal a priceless Fabergé egg. Clooney is co-producing the film with its director, Steven Soderbergh. Recently the pair have been collaborating on a new TV series about Washington politics, K Street.
Politics is a subject close to the heart of left- winger Clooney, who has described the current Bush administration as evil and called them "worse than the Sopranos." It seems even a crime gang as determined as The Sopranos would struggle to shift the safe from his Italian fortress.
Sandro Monetti
