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No, it's not a movie: actor George Clooney actually gave 14 of his friends $1 million each — all in cash.
The world learned about the gifts in a 2017 interview with Clooney's friend Rande Gerber. At the time, nobody was sure if the story was true. However, Clooney recently confirmed it while talking to the magazine GQ.
In 2013, Clooney's movie Gravity made $723 million at cinemas around the world, and the star wanted to give something back to the friends who had given him money and places to sleep when he was poor.
Clooney wasn't married yet, and had no children — he and international lawyer Amal Alamuddin didn't marry until September 2014. His friends were in his will, but the actor didn't want to wait until he died to give them money.
So Clooney, now 59, filled 14 bags with cash and invited his friends to his home.
The friends found a black bag in front of each of them at Clooney's table, Gerber told MSNBC in 2017. "We open it up, and it's $1 million in $20 bills."
According to Business Insider, Clooney didn't just pay $14 million, however. He also would have had to pay tax on the gifts, which could have added another $3.5 million to the total.

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演員喬治克隆尼為了感謝那些在他還很窮的時候，提供他金錢和地方睡覺的朋友，他給了他14名朋友一百萬美金——全部都給現金。其實在2017年時，人們便以從喬治克隆尼的朋友蘭德葛伯的訪談中得知這份大禮消息。然而當時，還沒有人確切知道這個故事是真是假。 近期，喬治克隆尼在與《GQ》雜誌的對談中證實了這個消息。

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