George Clooney is engaged to an utterly wonderful human-rights lawyer who brings a bright light to everything she is involved in, according to colleagues at her chambers.
The praise came as it was confirmed that the actor dubbed the world’s most eligible bachelor is to marry 36-year-old barrister Amal Alamuddin, recently voted London’s hottest female lawyer.
Alamuddin was spotted last week sporting a huge ring on her engagement finger during a meal with model Cindy Crawford and actor Ed Norton at Malibu’s Nobu restaurant.
A source close to the couple described reports of the engagement as not nonsense.
Alamuddin made her first public appearance with the star only in February, and has kept a low profile throughout their brief relationship, which is believed to have begun last summer.
As recently as December, Clooney, 52, a divorcee who was married to actor Talia Balsam for four years 20 years ago, claimed he had no aspirations to wed again.
But now Miss Alamuddin, who is from a wealthy Lebanese family and is described by colleagues as beautiful and fiercely intelligent, has apparently engendered a change of heart.
Alamuddin was said to be showing the ring off to Miss Crawford, whose husband, Rande Gerber, is Clooney’s business partner.
A day earlier, diners at Craig’s, another restaurant in Los Angeles, claimed the couple seemed to be celebrating their engagement with other friends.
Numerous, although unnamed, sources told media in the United States that the pair were engaged and, while they had not yet set a wedding date, they plan to be together forever.