In a move that makes me wish I had better friends, George Clooney once gave suitcases full of $1 million each to fourteen of his closest buds.
The 59-year-old actor told the full story of this long rumored incident in a recent interview with GQ, and it's exactly as awesome as it sounds.
In 2013, hot off a payday from the film Gravity, the Oscar winner decided to hook his friends up in a big way.
"I just thought basically if I get hit by a bus, they're all in the will. So why the &%$# am I waiting to get hit by a bus?"
The craziest part of the story is how he actually delivered the dough.
Cold. Hard. Cash. 💵 💵 💵
Apparently the hardest part of the operation was getting his hands on the fourteen milli in cash. Personally, I've never run into this kind of problem before. But there's always a way in LA.
He said he was able to get it at a location in downtown Los Angeles — which he didn't reveal — and carry it away in a rented beat-up van that said "Florist" on the side.
He had to keep the whole operation pretty quiet. Because driving around with suitcases full of $14 million cash in an old van is... ah... risky. The only people who were in on it were his assistant and a couple of security bros.
Once he got the cash safely home, he invited his lucky friends over and dropped the news (and cash-laden suitcases) on them.
I just held up a map and I just pointed to all the places I got to go in the world and all the things I've gotten to see because of them. And I said, ‘How do you repay people like that?' And I said, "Oh, well: How about a million bucks?"
George, you're my kind of guy.
