George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American and French actor and filmmaker. Known for his leading man roles on screen in both blockbuster and independent films, Clooney has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
Why George Clooney Appears in the Documents
George Clooney is mentioned in 15 documents within the Epstein file corpus, consisting of 8 articles, 7 emails, originating from the House Oversight Committee.
The majority of these mentions appear in articles written by or about Peggy Siegal, a prominent Hollywood publicist who was known to have social ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Siegal's articles chronicle celebrity events such as film festivals, Oscar parties, and award ceremonies, where George Clooney is mentioned alongside many other public figures in the entertainment industry. These references are part of broader entertainment coverage and do not suggest any direct connection to Epstein. The remaining 2 mentions appear in other documents from the corpus.
Disclaimer: Appearing in the Epstein document corpus does not imply wrongdoing, guilt, or any form of association with criminal activity. Many public figures are mentioned incidentally in these documents due to the broad scope of the released materials.
Documents (15)
The Billionaire's Playboy Club
Virginia Roberts recounts a harrowing true-life ordeal in which, as a teenager pulled into Jeffrey Epstein’s world, she is trafficked and sexually exploited by Epstein and his circle—including Ghislane Maxwell—across venues from Florida to New York, the Caribbean, and beyond. After years of abuse, a dramatic escape with FBI intervention begins a long journey of healing, marriage to Robbie, and a courageous drive to seek justice by exposing Epstein’s predatory network and advocating for other victims, turning a story of survival into a powerful call for accountability and reform.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Tuesday, August 30
Peggy Siegal’s Venice diary provides an intimate, fast-paced tour of the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011, tracing a week of red-carpet glamour, sun-baked palazzi, and exclusive soirees as she hobnobs with George Clooney, Madonna, Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino and other luminaries. Amid intimate press conferences and world premieres of A Dangerous Method, The Artist, Carnage, Contagion and Shame, the piece captures a festival ecosystem where couture, cinema history, and Oscar buzz mingle under Venetian heat and candlelit corridors. It also frames how Hollywood’s race for the Academy Awards begins overseas, with festival curators and global audiences shaping the year’s most anticipated films.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Tuesday, August 30
Peggy Siegal’s Venice diary provides an intimate, fast-paced tour of the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011, tracing a week of red-carpet glamour, sun-baked palazzi, and exclusive soirees as she hobnobs with George Clooney, Madonna, Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino and other luminaries. Amid intimate press conferences and world premieres of A Dangerous Method, The Artist, Carnage, Contagion and Shame, the piece captures a festival ecosystem where couture, cinema history, and Oscar buzz mingle under Venetian heat and candlelit corridors. It also frames how Hollywood’s race for the Academy Awards begins overseas, with festival curators and global audiences shaping the year’s most anticipated films.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Tuesday, August 30
Peggy Siegal’s Venice diary provides an intimate, fast-paced tour of the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011, tracing a week of red-carpet glamour, sun-baked palazzi, and exclusive soirees as she hobnobs with George Clooney, Madonna, Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino and other luminaries. Amid intimate press conferences and world premieres of A Dangerous Method, The Artist, Carnage, Contagion and Shame, the piece captures a festival ecosystem where couture, cinema history, and Oscar buzz mingle under Venetian heat and candlelit corridors. It also frames how Hollywood’s race for the Academy Awards begins overseas, with festival curators and global audiences shaping the year’s most anticipated films.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Vive L’Oscars: Peggy Siegal's Oscar Diary
Peggy Siegal’s exclusive Oscar diary offers a behind-the-scenes, celebrity-packed chronicle of the 2011–2012 Oscar season, tracing how nine Best Picture contenders—led by The Artist, The Tree of Life, The Help, Moneyball, The Descendants, Hugo, War Horse, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and The Ides of March—moved from Cannes into a year of campaigns, glamorous pre‑Oscars parties, fashion moments, and studio strategizing, with sharp, intimate observations from Woody Allen’s abstention to Uggie’s rise and George Clooney’s dual life as actor and humanitarian.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Oscars 2011: A Personal Chronicle of the Oscar Season and Parties
This insider diary chronicles the 2011 Oscar season from Cannes to the ceremony, tracing how nine films—led by The Artist, The Help, and The Descendants—built campaigns, buzz, and cross-country premieres while a glamorous whirl of parties, press rooms, and red carpets shaped the race for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress. It threads through the social machinery of Hollywood, spotlighting the rivalries and alliances among stars, producers, and power brokers at exclusive gatherings, where fashion, sentiment, and whispered predictions mattered as much as films themselves; it features Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, and the larger-than-life push around Meryl Streep vs. Viola Davis, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and a canine superstar, Uggie, who became a cultural moment. The narrative crescendos with The Artist’s historic sweep—the first silent Best Picture winner since 1927—with Harvey Weinstein’s orchestration, Michel Hazanavicius’s triumph, and Uggie’s star turn, before closing on the glow and the reminder that the magic of Oscar night is unforgettable, even as life returns to reality.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Oscar Diary
Peggy Siegal’s Oscar Diary offers a candid, insider account of the 85th Academy Awards weekend, tracing the social theater from ticket lineups and a line-cutting DreamWorks moment to the backstage chatter, campaigns, and box-office power that shape the race, with behind-the-scenes conversations about the Best Actress contenders, the politics surrounding Zero Dark Thirty and Les Misérables, and the global prestige and party-going hustle that define this glamorous, high-stakes Hollywood week.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Oscar Diary
Peggy Siegal’s Oscar Diary offers a candid, insider account of the 85th Academy Awards weekend, tracing the social theater from ticket lineups and a line-cutting DreamWorks moment to the backstage chatter, campaigns, and box-office power that shape the race, with behind-the-scenes conversations about the Best Actress contenders, the politics surrounding Zero Dark Thirty and Les Misérables, and the global prestige and party-going hustle that define this glamorous, high-stakes Hollywood week.
Source: House Oversight Committee
HD: Wall Street, Take Two
This confidential behind-the-scenes memo-by-essay traces Peggy Siegal’s vivid, insider tour of the making of Wall Street 2: The Money Never Sleeps, detailing Oliver Stone’s NYC shoot, the evolution of the script to focus on hedge fund titans, and on-set moments with Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, and Carrie Mulligan, including the lavish Alzheimer’s Ball scene, wardrobe and fashion drama, and a cascade of celebrity cameos and socialite interactions that illuminate the film’s production, its prestige-tinged whirlwind of glamour and power, and the financial world that inspired its villains.
Source: House Oversight Committee
HD: Wall Street, Take Two
This confidential behind-the-scenes memo-by-essay traces Peggy Siegal’s vivid, insider tour of the making of Wall Street 2: The Money Never Sleeps, detailing Oliver Stone’s NYC shoot, the evolution of the script to focus on hedge fund titans, and on-set moments with Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, and Carrie Mulligan, including the lavish Alzheimer’s Ball scene, wardrobe and fashion drama, and a cascade of celebrity cameos and socialite interactions that illuminate the film’s production, its prestige-tinged whirlwind of glamour and power, and the financial world that inspired its villains.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Peggy Siegal’s Oscar Diary
Peggy Siegal’s Oscar Diary is a vivid, insider’s chronicle of the 2012 Oscars season, weaving behind-the-scenes campaigning, red-carpet glamour, and the social machinery of awards week into a narrative of how a Best Picture winner is forged—highlighting 12 Years a Slave’s emotional campaign and Steve McQueen’s historic triumph, Gravity’s technical triumph and seven trophies, and the casting of Lupita Nyong’o, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, and Matthew McConaughey as defining stars of the year. It reveals the craft of targeting a precise emotion to move a voting bloc, the force of power players like Harvey Weinstein and Brad Pitt, and the nonstop orbit of exclusive dinners, sponsor-driven events, and fashion moments that color the race. Interwoven are Siegal’s personal moments—an eye infection, travel, and candid observations on industry rituals—culminating in a reflection on the intense pride in American cinema and a forward glance to Cannes.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Oscar Diary
Peggy Siegal’s Oscar Diary from March 2013 offers a vivid insider’s portrait of the 85th Academy Awards season: the feverish, star-studded social circuit, the colossal, money‑driven campaigns behind favorites like Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi, Les Misérables, Django Unchained, and Zero Dark Thirty, the behind‑the‑scenes debates and political undercurrents shaping winners and snubs, and a backstage world of line‑cut invitations, fashion fittings, high‑pressure meetings, and relentless networking as Siegal navigates the theater of Oscars week.
Source: House Oversight Committee
Oscar Diary
Peggy Siegal’s Oscar Diary from March 2013 offers a vivid insider’s portrait of the 85th Academy Awards season: the feverish, star-studded social circuit, the colossal, money‑driven campaigns behind favorites like Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi, Les Misérables, Django Unchained, and Zero Dark Thirty, the behind‑the‑scenes debates and political undercurrents shaping winners and snubs, and a backstage world of line‑cut invitations, fashion fittings, high‑pressure meetings, and relentless networking as Siegal navigates the theater of Oscars week.
Source: House Oversight Committee
HD: Wall Street, Take Two
This 2010 email exchange captures Peggy Siegal’s behind‑the‑scenes AVENUE Magazine draft about Wall Street 2, offering an immersive, first‑person tour of Oliver Stone’s production as Gordon Gekko returns and a new generation of hedge‑fund players is imagined. It chronicles Stone directing Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carrie Mulligan and Josh Brolin, detailing lavish NYC shoot days, high‑society fittings, and on‑set cameos (including Donald Trump) as Siegal moves through the social whirl surrounding the film. The narrative blends film lore with real‑world glamour and insider maneuvering, illustrating how the sequel reframes Gekko for a post‑crash era while signaling blockbuster potential, all within a confidential, insider memo.
Source: House Oversight Committee
HD: Wall Street, Take Two
This 2010 email exchange captures Peggy Siegal’s behind‑the‑scenes AVENUE Magazine draft about Wall Street 2, offering an immersive, first‑person tour of Oliver Stone’s production as Gordon Gekko returns and a new generation of hedge‑fund players is imagined. It chronicles Stone directing Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carrie Mulligan and Josh Brolin, detailing lavish NYC shoot days, high‑society fittings, and on‑set cameos (including Donald Trump) as Siegal moves through the social whirl surrounding the film. The narrative blends film lore with real‑world glamour and insider maneuvering, illustrating how the sequel reframes Gekko for a post‑crash era while signaling blockbuster potential, all within a confidential, insider memo.
Source: House Oversight Committee