Laglio, September 8, 2023 – George Clooney and his wife Amal they would put it up for sale Villa Oleandra by price 100 million euros. This was reported by Page Six, an American website that has always been aware of Hollywood gossip and its stars.
In fact, this is not the first time when it comes to the possible sale of the magnificent mansion that Clooney bought twenty years ago, in Laglio, on Lake Como: the actor has always denied it, but it seems like now is the right time.
George Clooney on his motorcycle on the roads of Lario
Legend has it that in the summer of 2021, a motorcycle, one Harley-Davidson, left him stranded right on the Regina, the road leading from Como towards Menaggio, in front of the gates of the old villa then owned Heinz family, Stars and Stripes Ketchup Tycoons. George called and asked for help: the gate opened and it was love at first sight.
The following year the entire villa was his, even if he had to write a check from 10 million dollars, just over 9 million euros, the biggest deal of his life. For twenty years, George never missed a summer at Villa Oleander. Indeed, “George Clooney was who Laglio was.” Brigitte Bardot in Saint Tropez or Karim Aga Khan for the Costa Smeralda”, using the words of Mayor Laglio himself.
For centuries Lake Como was a favorite place of Italian aristocrats, who built the most beautiful villas on Lake ComoTo Winston Churchill who left politics and took refuge in Bellagio to develop his passion for painting. Not to mention the romantic and noble English poets who always stopped here on their Grand Tours.
Clooney has turned the beautiful but sleepy lake from The Betrothed into a destination for the international jet set. The star not only brought her friends to us, they went through an initiation rite Elisabetta Canalissculptural Stacy Keibler and Amal Alamuddin, who later became Mrs. Clooney in 2014.
But first of all his friends: Jennifer Lopez and Ben AffleckBono Vox, Matt Damon, Cindy Crawford, Anna Wintour, Bill Murray and even the former US President Barack Obamaguest at Villa Oleandra in 2019 with Michelle and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Not just everything from the marina, motorcycle rides and evenings with pizza and friends. Feelings between Cluny and Lake Como have always been strong, and the inhabitants of the lake, Lage in the Como dialect, reciprocated. It is no coincidence that the actor also launched fundraising to support the reconstruction of the Lake Como area, which was hit by a terrible wave of bad weather in the summer of 2021. Clooney also personally committed to releasing dirt Laglio streets. That’s why if he sold Villa Oleander, it would be a loss for everyone and the end of a love that lasted twenty years.