George Clooney’s girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis has been implicated in a sex and drug scandal after an escort claims she snorted cocaine with the Italian television personality in a Milan nightclub linked to a high-class prostitution ring in 2007.
George Clooney will be honored for his humanitarian work at the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards next month.
Elisabetta Canalis — the Italian model and TV personality currently romantically-linked to Oscar-nominated actor George Clooney — is reportedly in talks to star on the third season of the TNT crime drama Leverage.
Sources tell Us Weeekly Canalis met with producers last month to discuss playing an international secret agent.
“She’s very excited about the part as well as the chance to break into American television,” an insider spilled to the mag. “She knows she’ll be over here (the U.S.) to be with George at the Oscars so she’s hoping to shoot some of her part then,” the snitch adds.
Canalis is currently featured in the ad campaign for the Spring collection from designer Roberto Cavalli. The upcoming third season of Leverage – featuring Timothy Hutton and Christina Kane — is scheduled to debut this summer.
George Clooney is donating $1 million to Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, the multi-network telethon he is co-organizing this Friday, Jan. 22, The Insider has learned. Hope for Haiti Now will also feature more than 100 of the biggest names in entertainment throwing their support behind the citizens of the earthquake-ravaged island nation.
George Clooney is joining the list of stars — including Brad and Angie, Lance Armstrong, and Wyclef Jean — using their international starpower to help Haiti after a devastating earthquake rocked the impoverished nation on Tuesday.