GEORGE CLOONEY’S FAMILY ARE CROOKS!
Movie hunk humiliated by relatives’ busts for drugs, theft & violence
HOLLYWOOD tough guy George Clooney is part of a real-life crime family with a chilling history of brutal violence, drugs and armed robbery, an explosive GLOBE special investigation reveals.
Shockingly, the Ocean’s Eleven gangster’s actual cousins — Tyler Clooney, 20, and his mom, Kelly, 40 — are jailbirds with rap sheets featuring arrests for heroin trafficking, burglary, theft and
wanton endangerment in the family’s home state, Kentucky. Lawmen say the violent rogues are notorious in Louisville.
Sources tell GLOBE the 57-year-old actor and his British lawyer wife, Amal, 41, give wide berth to their embarrassing relatives during their frequent visits to George’s childhood hometown, Augusta.
But an insider says “it’s hard to escape” the scandalous arrests, which have made local TV news. “Many put two and two together with the Clooney name,” adds the source.
Louisville native Tyler was still a teen when he and a thuggish pal forced their way into a family home on Nov. 12, 2016, and terrorized a woman at gunpoint, demanding she turn over pills.
During the frightening home invasion, Tyler’s friend fired shots, endangering the lives of nine people, including four children, who were asleep in their beds, cops say. The pair later fled the scene.
Three weeks earlier, cops say Tyler invaded another home, taking “several firearms and a 2008 Volkswagen Jetta.”
Following the crime spree, he was held for more than six months with bond set at $100,000.
Last August, jailbird Tyler was accused of attacking another inmate, who was asleep while “handcuffed and belly chained around the waist,” dishes a source.
Police say the victim suffered “contusions and lacerations to the face and head” after being stomped on his head with heavy work boots.
George’s cousin was sent to a pretrial diversion program for three years and ordered to pay $250 in court costs and fees.
Tyler’s mother, Kelly, has also been in and out of jail since 2015 for heroin trafficking while in the possession of a firearm and shoplifting.
A year ago, she wrote about troubled Tyler on Facebook: “I know regardless of the mistakes he’s made, his good traits far outweigh the flaws. It’s proof that I did something right … all those talks and trying to lead by example wasn’t in vain.”
About herself, she bizarrely writes: “I’ve always been crazy — but it’s kept me from going insane.”
Kelly’s father, Ray, 69, was a boozer, a victim of the “Clooney curse,” leading to his death in 2017. George skipped the funeral, but his father, Nick, went to pay his respects.
“George visits his hometown of Augusta every few months to see his parents, but he avoids Louisville, which is a two-hour drive away,” a source says.
“Nick and Nina [George’s mother] have kept in touch with Tyler’s family, but they don’t invite them to the major events hosted at local restaurants when George is in town.”