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Did George Clooney Turn Down $35 Million from Turkish Airlines?

by Asbarez Staff
December 6, 2021
in Armenia, Arts & Culture, Film, News, Top Stories
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Did George Clooney Turn Down $35 Million from Turkish Airlines?

George Clooney in Armenia in 2016

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Actor George Clooney told the Guardian that he had once turned down $35 million for a single day’s work. The offer, he said, was to appear in an airline commercial.

“I was offered $35 million for one day’s work for an airline commercial,” Clooney told The Guardian in a lengthy interview published on Friday.

“But I talked to Amal [Clooney’s wife, the international human rights lawyer he married in 2014] about it and we decided it’s not worth it,” explained Clooney, who said their decision came due to the airline being associated with “a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times.”

“So I thought: ‘Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it,’” the actor said.

Amal Clooney was one of the attorney advocating for Armenia in a case regarding the Armenian Genocide that was heard in the European Court of Human Rights in 2016.

While he did not mention the airline by name, its highly presumed that the company in question was Turkish Airlines, with the Turkish government owning a major stake of it.

To promote its airlines, Turkey paid millions of dollars to U.S. celebrities to become spokespeople for its brand.

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  1. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    His attorney (or former attorney) is responsible in part for denial of the Armenian Genocide being part of American Jewish history. This is called ‘damage control’.

    Reply
  2. Harut Sassounian says:
    8 months ago

    Eric,

    Who is his attorne?

    Reply
  3. Harut Sassounian says:
    8 months ago

    Sorry. Attorney.

    Reply
  4. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    https://forum.hyeclub.com/forum/armenian-genocide-forums/genocide-discussions/9810-how-the-suggestion-of-debate-over-armenian-s-allegations-of-gencoide

    The shark in Jaws is named after him Harut.
    He represents Spielberg and Eastwood also. And, he did this all while living in town with us.

    Reply
  5. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    More color.

    https://forum.hyeclub.com/forum/armenian-genocide-forums/genocide-discussions/10992-adl-nbc-ajc-usc-ag-denial

    Reply
  6. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    A member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and friend of former FBI director Louis Freeh, Ramer has been deeply concerned about terrorism since the early 1990s, long before the twin towers went down. His commitment to community causes so energizes him, he says, that he is much more productive than he might otherwise be.

    https://www.superlawyers.com/california/article/how-steven-spielberg-turned-the-nicest-guy-in-hollywood-into-a-shark/99723514-7a44-4639-9520-4f96e8547b79.html

    Reply
  7. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    The Aurora presentation by Clooney was also damage control.

    Reply
  8. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Clooney and Ramer go way back.

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-07-me-29780-story.html

    Reply
  9. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Oprah cozies up with Genocide denier and his sympathising client.

    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/oprah-winfrey-at-the-american-jewish-committee-honoring-news-footage/75696276

    Reply
  10. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Two Genocide deniers in Beverly Hills celebrating
    Spielberg.

    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/national-director-abraham-foxman-and-bruce-ramer-founding-news-photo/108197677

    Reply
  11. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Same two Genocide deniers in Beverly Hills.
    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/director-abraham-foxman-and-bruce-ramer-founding-partner-of-news-photo/94237878

    Reply
  12. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/13kR6Cii-G5fI8s6AzI_SCvmu7YIMMGzC/view

    Queue

    16:35 – 17:42 to see Schiff celebrate a genocide denier’s tenure as president of AJC and celebrate the genocide denying organization’s yearly meeting.

    19:20 – 22:20 to see genocide denier Bruce Ramer congratulate same genocide denier that Schiff acknowledged.

    Reply
  13. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Some of ours will sleep with the enemies wife for their own professional benefit. Doing the right thing?
    Is that like when you claim to be anti-Genocide while lining the pockets of a Genocide denier who happens to be your attorney. Esrailian is friends with Clooney’s wife. Puhleeze. We are eating ourselves because we have no self-respect

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CXRmzEpPyGs/?hl=en

    Reply
  14. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    More damage control. Look see my wife has an Armenian friend. Eshachoon ban.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CXRmzEpPyGs/?hl=en

    Reply
  15. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    We are being lead to our demise by odars assisted by our own.

    Reply
  16. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    https://mobile.twitter.com/AzerbaijaniJews/status/1462237144047501315

    Reply
  17. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Either allow my whole posts or don’t allow them. The piecemeal picking what posts or what portions of posts is not editorially sound as it omits my position or alters it. It’s not fair or ethical. So stop. Esh.

    Reply
  18. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/serj-tankian-tells-jimmy-page-man-who-signed-led-zeppelin-gave-his-philanthropic-support-to-denial-of-armenian-genocide/

    Reply
  19. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Law firms withdraw funding from theater production over the name of a fictional character who is rich but not Jewish but has a Jewish name. But Jewish attorneys who engaged in denial of the Armenian Genocide for Israel and Turkey get walk the corridors of American power and accept political appointments with their bar cards. Compare and contrast. Abe Foxman, Bruce Ramer to name two.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-59579623

    Reply
  20. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    You could argue Clooney’s marriage to Amal an “international human rights attorney” was damage control also after being represented in Hollywood by a Genocide Denier for decades.

    Reply
  21. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Esrailian works for UCLA Geffen School of Medicine.
    C’mon man. Have some self-respect. You work for a school named after a man whose mentor and good friend was none other than Ahmet Ertegun, a notorious Genocide denier and son of Turkish diplomat.

    Reply
  22. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    AJC gives award to member of Bruce Ramey’s firm.

    https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/364984-attorney-stanley-p-gold-receives-judge-learned-hand-award

    Reply
  23. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Hai Tahd in the United States has accomplished nothing accept people knowing we died and thus no longer considering we are here such that when we are discriminated against or offended it is not newsworthy. How many more resolutions recognizing the Armenian Genocide or movies about the event do we need before Hayastan is lost for good. We got words from our leaders while at the same time our leaders provided our enemies money and weapons to be used against us. Without our future, our past will become a footnote and nothing more. #Tekfurdağı

    Reply
  24. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown >> USC >> Speilberg >> Geffen >> Esrailian

    Reply
  25. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    https://irvine.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=68&clip_id=5580
    From Irvine City Council’s meeting last night.
    Queue

    4.4. 4:57:01 – 5:00:26
    4.6. 5:27:11 – 5:30:20
    Public Comments. 5:48:24 – 5:51:24

    Feel free to pass it around

    Reply
  26. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Geffen >> Cher >> Esrailian

    Cher has no self-respect either.

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/grammys-cher-david-geffen-289539/

    Reply
  27. Eric Neshanian says:
    8 months ago

    Find Bruce Ramer American Jewish Committee

    https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/hillary-clinton-weighed-edinburgh-film-festival-row-1498095

    Reply
  28. Eric Neshanian says:
    7 months ago

    Two Armenian-Americans with no self-respect.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CXokDJiv4hw/?hl=en

    Reply
  29. Eric Neshanian says:
    7 months ago

    A conference of Two Armenian-Americans with no self-respect.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CXokDJiv4hw/?hl=en

    Reply
  30. Eric Neshanian says:
    7 months ago

    anti-Christian anti-Armenian propaganda being spread by a foreign diplomat of a Muslim country-from an office somewhere in Southern California. Azerbaijan first became a country in 1918. If he was misappropriating Jewish history it we be considered considered a racist hate crime. It is as if we are not
    here.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/NasimiAghayev/status/1474839016017051649

    Reply
  31. Eric Neshanian says:
    7 months ago

    Remind me again when Cher, Eric Esrailian or Kim Kardashian sent a public shout out from their platforms to Hampig or Monte or any of our martyrs. Just once.

    Reply
  32. Eric Neshanian says:
    7 months ago

    Archbishop of Los Angeles gladly takes photo of with notorious local Genocide Denier. No one complains.

    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/archbishop-jose-gomez-and-bruce-ramer-attend-the-bet-tzedek-news-photo/476918577

    Reply
  33. Eric Neshanian says:
    7 months ago

    Vice President’s husband honors AJC.
    https://www.ajc.org/news/second-gentleman-douglas-emhoff-addresses-ajc-los-angeles-annual-meeting-0

    Reply

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