George Clooney: Not the Perp

March 30, 2007

If you’ve been on the internet for more than fifteen minutes in the past few weeks, you’ve seen the clips of Lily Tomlin and David O. Russell going bananas on each other.

Yesterday, both radaronline and Defamer.com had claimed that George Clooney (who also famously can’t stand David O. Russell) leaked the clips to the internet. The sites noted that Clooney, who had a well-publicized fight with Russell on the set of the film ''Three Kings,'' is currently working with sound mixer Ed Tise, who also worked on ''Huckabees.''

George Clooney personally responded to rumors by sending a personal note to both sites.

Neither had a role in the clip's release, Clooney said.

''Contrary to popular opinion, neither the sound man, Ed Tise, nor yours truly sent in the David O. Russell tape,'' Clooney wrote in the note released by his publicist, Stan Rosenfield. ''I saw it when we were working on 'Ocean's 12,' and there have been quite a few copies traveling around town for the last couple of years. Any rumor that either of us put it on the Internet is simply false. And I'd offer a million bucks to anyone who would prove otherwise.''