Amal Alamuddin

Lebanese human rights attorney Amal Clooney looked glamorous Saturday while attending a gala dinner for the American University of Beirut alumni group in London.

The 40-year-old Lebanese-British barrister wore a burgundy sleeveless gown designed by Italian dressmaker Alberta Ferretti. It featured a ruched waistline and a beautiful velvet texture.

She accessorized the look with black pumps, diamond earrings and a silver clutch.

Clooney spoke during the WAAAUB Annual Gala Dinner held at the glamorous Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London.

WAAAUB stands for the Worldwide Alumni Association of the American University of Beirut. The alumni group has chapters in countries all over the world.

According to their Facebook page, the group was formed as a “platform to allow fellow AUBites in the UK and abroad to network and socialize while also raising funds to support AUB’s financial aid program.”

The Saturday program included remarks by Clooney and her father Ramzi Alamuddin. The ticket price was about $230.

Her father is from Baakline, a village in the Chouf district. He received an MBA degree at the American University of Beirut and was the owner of COMET travel agency.

George and Amal Clooney have welcomed the birth of twins Ella and Alexander Clooney.

The pair was born Tuesday morning at a hospital in London, according to Clooney spokesperson Stan Rosenfield. Both are “happy, healthy and doing fine,” he said.

Clooney, 56, and British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, 39, married in 2014. Ella and Alexander are the first children for both.

“I didn’t know that we’d have kids,” Clooney told reporters after announcing Amal’s pregnancy. “I was very happy that we were going to get married and then (children) seemed like the next step.”

The twins are British citizens by birth, but can apply for dual citizenship, according to immigration expert Atousa Saei. However, the children cannot legally become Lebanese citizens.

A nearly century-old Lebanese law restricts Lebanese women from passing citizenship to their spouse or children. According to Reuters, more than 77,000 Lebanese find themselves in a similar situation.

Photos of the babies have not yet been released. A publicist said no other details were immediately available as of Tuesday afternoon.

A publicist joked, “George is sedated and should recover in a few days.”

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(VENICE, ITALY) — George Clooney and his Lebanon-born British fiancee Amal Alamuddin arrived in Venice Friday for a spectacular waterfront wedding billed as the party of the year.

Riding on a watertaxi dubbed “Amore,” the celebrity pair crossed Venice’s Grand Canal at around 3 p.m., gliding up to the Hotel Cipriani on the island of Giudecca, where they will be hosting A-list guests for a gala dinner.

The silver-haired actor, director and producer, was seen helping his father Nick Clooney onto a “vaporetto” boat, as they headed into the first night of the nuptials, set to draw out over the weekend.

Traveling with them was the ex-supermodel Cindy Crawford, one of dozens of stars to have flocked to Venice – paparazzi in tow – for the wedding of the world’s most sought-after catch and his human rights lawyer fiancee.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Matt Damon will also be checking in to the Cipriani before the gala meal rustled up by Italian chef Riccardo de Pra.

Damon was among the first guests spotted at Venice airport Friday, along with Clooney’s cousin Miguel Ferrer and the “Spin City” stars Ellen Barkin and Richard Kind.

“If I’d known there would be all of you here, I’d have put on some makeup and done my hair,” quipped Kind, one of Clooney’s oldest friends.

The 53-year-old actor and Alamuddin, 36, are expected to be officially married in a civil ceremony Monday, but the city of masks is preparing for a weekend of serious partying before then.

Sources said the actor would be celebrating with 136 guests at a reception Saturday at the fresco-adorned Aman hotel, an exclusive seven-star hotel in the 450-year-old Palazzo Papadopoli.

“Clooney’s on everyone’s lips here in Venice, the girls in particular are all in a tizzy, they’ll be lining the banks of the canal to see him,” watertaxi driver Bruno Bartolini said.

“The city has ground to a halt because they’re using the Grand Canal, but what does that matter: There’s nothing better than getting married in Venice,” Bartolini said.

Guests will be escorted by police boats to the exclusive seven-star Aman Saturday, to keep overexcited Clooney admirers and hundreds of photographers at a distance.

They’ll be met with lashings of fizz and canapes in the garden, an oasis sheltered from the bustle of the canal, before sitting down in the main library to a sumptuous five-course dinner, according to a source close to the hotel.

The Aman’s restaurant will be turned into a nightclub, where they’ll dance the night away, a source said, with Lana Del Rey reportedly preparing to serenade the couple.

Speed boats will be banned from stopping in front of the hotel to keep goggling to a minimum.

Rome’s former mayor Walter Veltroni, a longtime friend of Clooney’s, will be performing the civil ceremony, which is likely to be held in the town hall, the stunning Ca’ Farsetti 14th century palace opposite the Aman hotel.

The streets around the town hall will be off-limits to the public from 12 noon for two hours Monday, when the ceremony is expected to take place.

Though the world’s most famous waterway will not be closed entirely, there were grumbles in the northern Italian city over the disruption and such an ostentatious display of wealth in times of economic crisis.

“Clooney’s not bringing us bread for our tables,” said 16-year-old Viviana, “coming here with all his nice money while we can’t find jobs.”

Fellow local resident Silvana agreed: “It would have been better for all of us if he’d gone to get married in some secret countryside location.”

But nothing appears able to dampen the spirits of the crowds of tourists eagerly snapping photographs of the town hall and Aman from the water ferries, or the locals staking out the best viewing positions in houses along the canal.

Anything for a glimpse of the former bachelor in his Armani wedding suit and Alamuddin in an Alexander McQueen creation designed by Sarah Burton, the woman behind the gown worn by Britain’s Kate Middleton at her wedding to Prince William in 2011.

Alamuddin, who moved to Britain with her family as a 3-year-old, met the Hollywood star through his humanitarian work.

Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)