Clooney starred in the “Ocean’s” franchise which was a series of heist films centered around his character.
WASHINGTON — “Ocean’s 11” star George Clooney knows a thing or two about what it takes to pull off a good heist…at least in the movies. And he’s heard the “Ocean’s” comparisons related to the recent Louvre jewelry heist and NBA sports betting scandal.
“We also got compared to the Louvre heist. Which I think you gotta put me in like CGI me into that basket coming out of the Louvre. I think you should do that. Yeah, we get blamed for everything now,” Clooney said Thursday night while promoting his upcoming film “Jay Kelly” in Los Angeles.
Clooney starred in the “Ocean’s” franchise which was a series of heist films centered around his character.
Earlier this week, inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre’s facade, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.
Then, the world of sports was thrown into a frenzy on Thursday when the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested along with more than 30 other people in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations that authorities said leaked inside information about NBA athletes and rigged poker games backed by Mafia families.
Portland coach Chauncey Billups was charged with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games tied to La Cosa Nostra organized crime families that cheated unsuspecting gamblers out of at least $7 million. Heat guard Terry Rozier was accused in a separate scheme of exploiting private information about players to win bets on NBA games.
“We’ve never had a moment in our history that we didn’t have some dumb scandal or something crazy,” said Clooney.” I mean I feel very bad for the the gambling scandal ’cause this was on the night that, you know, we had some amazing basketball happen and it was too bad that that other story sort of stole it and I just hope that everybody’s gonna be okay.”
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