From Patchouli to Prada (Clooney’s “mystery” girl?)
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I can understand that some may have chosen to add malicious attacks and comments under this article but I don’t plan to respond to them, unless of course they are directed towards me and then…I might, because then it’s just funny. You may feel that my intentions in this article may have been dishonorable at best, but I wish no ill will towards anyone.
Sarah may have rubbed me the wrong way at times but I have no negative feelings towards her, believe it or not. I wasn’t going to come out here like Capt. Save-a-ho and write an article defending random attacks by strangers on the internet when I wrote it, but I was trying to humanize this rampant frenzy to search out her history and to stabilize it if I could. I tried to show her in the truthful light of someone that everyone could be familiar with. No need to turn her into a GOD or to turn her into a DEMON. She’s just a regular ass human, and guess what?….so is George Clooney.
If you are tremendously hurt or inspired by anything either of them do that is broadcasted through the media which paints them in either light, the only real problems that you have do not come from these people, who you will never likely come in contact with in real life, it comes for your own issues. There’s a show for that, it’s called Dr. Phil. Sorry they cancelled Lilith Fair.
I will not censor your comments, I am against that fully, but don’t expect me to feed into them either, positively or negatively. Maybe another mistake on my part is that I am failing to remove this article, but I do take great time and effort to compose my articles and thoughts and I view them as my own form of art. Words to me are something that I can form and something that I can create or express with, even if I can’t afford a $2,500 wacom tablet or expensive musical equipment. If you think my writing is shit…that’s cool. I think most film today is shit and most of the celebrities that people worship are talentless hacks. This is my forum which you are welcome to visit and comment on as you see fit. That’s all that it is; that and a forum for friends of mine whose views that I respect. I hope people are enjoying it. Maybe you’ll enjoy another article, maybe you don’t give a fuck. Either way thanks for visiting and I appreciate your time.
Now that I’ve said that, you are very welcome to continue
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I woke up Saturday morning when my phone rang at 9:13 pacific standard time. It was a message from my friend KB Smooth texting me from Rhode Island. The message said “Sarah Larson is dating George Clooney…” I got up and went to my computer. I searched on line to find pictures of Sarah and Clooney at a celebrity coctail party in Venice for the release of his new film Michael Clayton, where they were hanging out with Spike Lee, Bill Murray, and Richard Gere. Everything else that I found on the internet about her dating Clooney, refers to her as a “mystery girl“. No one seems to know anything about her except her name and age (28) but they seem to be searching frantically. Some refer to her as a possible “Go-Go dancer” but without confirmation. I don’t understand the intense interest, but I can say one thing; she’s not much of a fucking mystery. I’ve known her since she was 10.
The main difference was that she had a side-pontytail when I met her 2 years prior. The photo above is from our 7th grade Junior High year book. You may be thinking, “Damn! That’s fucked up. I can’t believe you posted that photo on the internet.” If you have this year book, then you know that I don’t have room to talk shit because my picture is actually worse. Yeah, I know, it was 1991 and it was a long time ago. If you think about it though, what’s really fucked up is that, at the time when the picture was taken, George Clooney was already a suave 30 yr old adult man with sideburns who was playing Booker Brookes on Roseanne. That’s 2 years older than Sarah is right now. When I was 6 years old and pretending that I was StreetHawk, this cat actually got to appear on an episode. That same year he started his 2 year run on the Facts of Life for crissakes! If Alan Thicke wrote the theme song to a show that you were a major character on, then you’ve been around for a minute. Hell, he was even getting acting gigs before I was a fetus floating next to a dangerous IUD.It’s wierd seeing somebody that you’ve known for almost 20 years in photographs romantically linking them with an Oscar winner. Sarah and I have attended the same schools since elementary and all the way up through college. We even lived in the same house at one point. She dated a former bandmate of mine for 6 years and was my ex-girlfriend’s best friend for years as well. We’ve been on road trips. Now everyone is so fascinated with her. I know why the people who know her are, but the rest of you…what’s the deal? What the fuck do you really want to know? She’s just some broad from Kent, a town located between Seattle and Tacoma Washington. A town, when we were growing up there, that had something to prove. When people live in a suburb like that, they like nothing more than to go to parties, get drunk off of their parents shitty beer and punch eachother in the throat.
The same day I found out about her new popularity, my mom told me that she was on the cover of People magazine and, later on E!, she was shown in a brief clip. I had been at work all day, however, before I left I had emailed a couple of publications stating simply that I knew her. I got a response and I spoke on the phone a couple of times with one publication in particular. It was insane. I was just interested in the process at first but I started to get swept away with the whole situation. I held back with info trying to see what they would say to me and, basically, trying to read the British man on the other end of the line. It was a little shady right off the bat. I got questions like “Would you say she was a maneater?” and gave responses like, “Um…no, I wouldn’t say that she was a ‘man eater‘…” Eventually, after being awakened early on my day off with a phone call, I said that I wouldn’t link him up with an ex-boyfriend of hers unless I heard something solid instead of bullshit. I got a monetary offer and a contract was sent to my friend. I don’t like feeling like I’m on the other end of a hustle and, although money is nice, neither of us (the ex-boyfriend and I) were out to destroy or hurt anyone, so we basically both decided not to take the cash or to deal with them further. Plus, when you sign a contract like that, there is a clause where you can’t speak about your story to anyone for at least 3 months afterwards. That means that if they twist your shit around, which they will inevitably do, you can’t make a rebuttal anywhere else publically. Fuck it! It wasn’t enough to build my bronze statue in which I’m holding a giant lazer anyway. I’m spilling my guts here instead. In my own forum and in the appropriate context. I don’t really “hate” anyone, but I do know that all of this shit is going to be pouring out soon from one direction or another.
I lived in a house near Lake Meridian and Sarah lived about 3 houses away. Her family was nice enough and she was the oldest of 3 sisters. She also has a little brother and a step dad. Her mom had remarried after a divorce due to Sarah’s dad being gay and remarrying another man. It was actually very interesting because he had lived for a long time with the AIDS virus and, as I recall, scientists were interested in finding out why so that they could learn something more about the disease. I believe that he eventually died around 2002 or ’03. This should be the one thing, if anything, that should really draw some sympathy for her, but I don’t know how something like that is printed for a headline. It’s most likely in a shady manner, and I know that the tabloids are already aware of this to a certain degree because I was asked directly about it.
There is a post from a guy calling himself Pizza T on the internet, who not only calls himself a “hippy thug” but also claims that he dated Sarah for 6 years. Sites are wondering if it’s true because they haven’t been able to “confirm” it. Fuck, I’ll “confirm” it right now. It’s true. Their relationship started in High School. Our high school was fucked up too. You were either living in a country club, crazy ghetto broke and hood, or stuck being left in the middle like the rest of us. I was even supposed to walk at graduation with Sarah but, since the school hated me, I was barely allowed to walk at all. I walked by myself as the last student behind a kid in a wheel chair.
Sarah wasn’t rocking $3 million dollars worth of Bulgari jewels back then, she was wearing hemp necklaces, listening to the Grateful Dead, and attending Phish concerts. When I was 18 I got in my car with some friends, her boyfriend at the time included, and I travelled around California for about 3 months, scamming fast food, sleeping in my Datsun 510 with the fake Jaguar hood ornament, using psychedelics, and getting into free concerts. Sarah made a few trips down from Kent to see Tommy (Pizza T) visit, camp, etc. I wasn’t in a band with Tommy yet, but the majority of the people on the trip were. The band was called MUSIC and we would set up shows and they would play them in random towns we’d hit up on the trip. We were notorious for making offensive and/or low quality flyers to advertise. It was 1997 and quite a few such flyers that we made were contsructed from game pieces for contests at a fast food chain that I used to like to scam food from. The game pieces had photos of characters from a big movie that was out that summer. The movie was Batman and Robin starring, none other than George Clooney.
This photo of Sarah above is from that summer tour. It was taken at a spot called Whole in the Wall in Garberville, Ca where we had all slept that night. Some random middle aged naked guy showed up and decided to lounge out for a tan and we actually only took this picture of her so that we could snap him in it and remember that day. That brings me to a quick point. Sarah looks a lot tanner now and her hair isn’t blonde anymore, like it used to be. Another issue that it brings up is that, this was taken 10 years ago and I can’t seem to easily find any pictures of her that are more recent. She was there all of time but nobody seemed to feel the need to hold on to any pictures of her. Around this time I was closer to almost anyone else but her. I was a lot closer with her boyfriend and I actually met him through her. She, unfortunately, began to take on more of the role as someone’s girlfriend who complained a lot. The girl who, when everyone was hanging out and being dirty and happy and crazy and whatever else, seem to be bringing people down. We didn’t give a fuck about anything back then. It was a good time, in fact, it will always be one of the best times of my life. Things were new and exciting, but the metalic nagging shriek of, “TOMMY!” will always ring around like loose change in my memory bank. She was becoming a girl who’s bullshit and complaining sucked everyone into the drama of a relationship that they weren’t even in, through mere proximaty. This feeling continued pretty much until the last time I saw her which was years and years later.
Sure, we’ve kicked it by ourselves in more that one situation and gotten along alright, so I can definitely say that having a significant other there to fire off demands at played a part in lowering her social value, and that’s understandable. She has also played a mediator in a few situations of drama, but I wouldn’t say that was enough to cancel out the amount of drama that she had, at times, created herself. This is why I guarantee her past to unfold in no time. If you are one of the friends that was bitched about, or had to be approached by your friend on behalf of his girlfriend The 2 Coreys style, you have quite a bit of built up anger towards her. If you remember some of the specific drama you might be ready to blow.
Everyone knew she was prone to complaining and frustration, but when “Pizza T” arrived to school at Green River Community College one day after she had punched him in the face and left noticeable proof, it took it to another level. Obviously, he didn’t want to talk about it for too long at the time, it’s not the proudest moment you can have, but he did tell me what happened. She simply got upset about something trivial and punched him. Later, he called her out saying things like, “You fucking punched me in the head, Sarah!” It reminded me of Nanny 911 where things have gone too far and you can’t reverse time, all you can do is try to explain why what they did was excessive and wrong, all the while knowing that you can’t teach them why it’s wrong but can only help them learn that they can’t pull shit like that anymore. Later when we all moved to Olympia to attend The Evergreen State College shit escalated.
A bunch of us lived in a house on North St. across from a Masonic Lodge and down the street from the old Tumwater Brewery. It was a house where the rent was cheap because, otherwise, the owners would have had to pay to make it liveable for humans. There was a giant marijuana tapestry on the ceiling of the living room and from the street, you could see armed Marines in camo face-paint, which were cut from recruitment posters and taped in the windows like they were guarding the house. It was a shit hole and I slept on a couch that was always at least a little damp for some reason. A far cry from a Venice Coctail party. Sarah was always a little high maintenance for our crew, yet she lived in shitty places like this with us. She would talk with Tommy about how she wanted things in the house to be a certain way, or someone to move out, etc. etc. but she moved into a house that others lived in and tried to change it. Everyone else wanted her out because she would yell at everyone. General rule of thumb for anyone: If someone is not fucking you then they don’t have to put up with your shit. It got to the point where, if she ever even approached me with anything I would respond bluntly and firm to whatever she said, and make it clear that I wasn’t going to go into a conversation and listen to any of it. If I didn’t already agree, I don’t already agree, I don’t want anyone to try and work me over. She eventually moved out. She always needed everyone to tend to her and people weren’t getting sympathetic, they were getting pissed. Her powers didn’t work on me. She was just some chick I’d known for years and I was never attracted to her. She always kind of looked like a Gelfling to me anyway, but if she could work sympathy out of her looks she would have. You can’t really blame her, people adjust by what they are shown in through environments.
Sarah eventually rented a room in a house where one of our other good friends and former roommates had moved. There was a garage turned dance studio there. Sarah was still sewing up sundresses and trying to be earthy. She was studying an East Indian dance called Orisi which she would often bust out in the most innappropriate moments. Her “best friend” was my live-in girlfriend and we had our own place at that time. There were situations where I would reluctantly agree to go over to her place and have dinner. She would subtley put down my girlfriend in front of her and would always seem to try and show off her dance moves or body in some way. If I left the room to sit down, she would be in front of me in minutes shaking her hips and blocking my views/pathways. I wanted to put a gun to my dome in those situations. Sarah had made a few advances or inappropriate gestures towards me, even in front of the girlfriend and regardless of the fact that her boyfriend and I were friends. I became resentful in ways because, to me, it seemed like she could be very domineering towards my lady. I always felt that she would use her to make herself feel better. Her advances towards me may not have been necessarily “sexual”, but they were definitely innappropriate. I honestly believe that at the heart of everything was a need for focus and attention to be on her. I don’t think that she could even accept that someone loved someone else that was a good friend of hers, because the attention wasn’t all about her. It wasn’t about me or anyone else, I don’t think, I think it was about having the focus towards her at all times. If you disrespect someone that I love, I lose respect for you, it’s that simple. It’s quite possible that she had a lot going on, herself, that she didn’t verbalize within my earshot.
Sarah eventually hooked up with our former roommate of ours that she was living with in the new house now. Tommy found out and all hell broke loose, as you could imagine. They had been together for 6 years and it ended like that. At that point I was in a band with Pizza T and he would make all of his dramatic and drawn out phonecalls to her from my house. This was probably because I had more of a chill and welcoming environment to deal with such manners in than the chaotic environment he was living in. This was a bad time for me because, since Sarah was “best friends” with my girlfriend, she was always over as well. This drama eminated from my house and I didn’t want it there. I would often comment that I didn’t feel comfortable with her coming over anymore.
I’m still friends with the guy she wound up hooking up with, in fact. I haven’t even talked to Tommy in 2 years. We had a huge falling out which resulted in him blocking me from accessing our bands myspace page and posting bulletins and emails telling everyone (approx. 4,000 fans) that I had died of AIDS. Yeah, were are not friends, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not going to tell this story the way that I saw it. He got fucked over pretty hard and took it pretty hard. The guy she had transitioned to is the one that I’ve been talking with and who turned down offers to talk with publications. Interesting things are coming out from talks with everyone about this whole Clooney situation. The second boyfriend told me that he didn’t even know, until I just told him, that Sarah was still dating Tommy when they hooked up. I was catching the situation from all angles so I know that he sure as fuck thought they were. She said that they hadn’t been together for 3 months but I saw them together all of the time just prior. My girlfriend had seen them together regularly too, but she would relay bullshit like that to me from Sarah. “Well, she says they haven’t been together for 3 months.” Whatever. That’s a random things that some women decide. Don’t guess when you started dating ever! You started dating the minute that they decided that they wanted to in their own heads. Same thing when you break up. If they had decided at some point that they should break up with you and then find someone that they would rather fuck, it’s over and they “already told you“. It helps if they cut you off for a week or so first. That way they can always say that you knew about it. The logic is more than flawed, sure, but I can’t even say that she didn’t believe it. My girlfriend eventually went batshit psycho crazy and disappeared from our home one day. I should have seen it coming she used that same logic on me eventually. Another thing that they both did have in common as friends was that they were a little flighty. They hardcore believed in fairies and wanted to do shit like, “paint magic in the woods” or whatever other mystical bullshit they could think of. My ex-girlfriend once told me that she had actually left milk out for those fucking fairies and Sarah would tell me about transcending her physical body and travelling in spirit form around her house. Maybe they believe that they didn’t cheat on anyone. I don’t know maybe they didn’t. Maybe we don’t have the “magic potions” to see reality. Maybe, but I took the same “magic potions” that they did and probably more of it.
This was all around 2001. From a psychological standpoint, I would say the following. Sarah had been in a 6 year relationship and wanted to move out of it into something “new”. Tommy had the same issues, this was their only really serious relationship. The problems were that she didn’t have the integrity or sense to handle it correctly, from what I saw, and he was allowing it to continue and to be disrepected out of fear of the unknown without her. That’s what happens. It’s your first serious relationship. I got fucked over myself, it’s logical. Sometimes people actually don’t know how to hurt someone to theri face and make young, foolish decisions. Sarah‘s rude awakening happened when she thought that she could pull the same shit on the new guy and it didn’t fly. I know that she had lashed out and tried to strike him in the past too. He blocked it once and she hurt her self. She wasn’t always out punching everyone and being violent, but she was definitely known to trip and act a fool. She had become accustomed to having someone take whatever abuse she chose to dish out, and so she vented in that manner. He kicked her to the curb. The two guy’s became friends again and I saw Sarah out of default, until my girlfriend cooked us up lives as transient mental basketcases.
Last time that I saw Sarah was right after she hooked up with some goon named Dan Randolph. I met him twice, I think. I believe that they came into the Rang Dong once which, in it’s heyday, was the greatest Vietnamese Karaoke bar of all time. He didn’t seem to be very interesting or fitting. They moved to Vegas. Next I hear, she’s on Fear Factor shortly after. She actually wins after that guy basically carries her. Here’s where some debate comes into play. The Fear Factor site labels Sarah Larson as a “Go-Go dancer“. Pizza T‘s letter denies this claim, but it’s just wishful thinking. How would he know? Sorry but it’s true. If you don’t want to hear that and you believe that everything you’ve read on the internet is true, you can stop now. I died of AIDS 2 years ago, so who gives a shit about what I’m about to type anyway? A source I know who worked at the production company for Fear Factor told me that she was scouted Go-Go dancing. I was informed that they actually had to call her down off of a pole to offer her a spot on the show. The problem with tabloids and media is that it’s like the game of telephone. Go-go dancer can be changed very easily into a stripper when skewed. From there, that get’s morphed into hooker and eventually you are a crack whore murderer running a child-porn ring. Apparently, Cocktail waitress gets morphed into Actress/Model fairly easily too, because as far as anyone I know is informed, that’s a load of bullshit too. That’s why nobody can find anything on her, because they are typing in “actress/model” on their search engines, instead of “Random Chicks From Kent“.
With questions like, “Does she want to hide her background?” being asked by Hollywood, she’s becoming an enigma. I don’t know if she is trying to hide anything. I do know that she doesn’t look that comfortable in the pictures that I’ve seen. It’s got to be an overwhelming experience to have to absorb for someone. Maybe nobody has asked her anything. Last I heard she was supposed to marry that guy she was on Fear Factor with, but that obviously didn’t happen. She got a B.S. degree from Evergreen and then up and moved to Vegas. I’m not trying to attack or hurt anyone, but I’m not ashamed of my background and I’ve been in a mental health unit. Then again, I’m not trying to be a politician or a Hollywood darling. She’s just a girl who had occasionally displayed some selfish tendancies and became clearly too high maintenance for the crowd she was involved with. Maybe she felt that she wanted to get “somewhere” even if she didn’t know where that place was. Maybe all that she knew was that her current environments weren’t gong to nurture that. Most likely, she didn’t really piece it together all that in depth, but rather just reacted. She didn’t have a severe drug addiction, or drown a baby. It’s not that interesting. What’s interesting to me is that she went from E to E!, from Patchouli to Prada, from Orisi to Go-go….actually, her Orisi always had quite a bit of Go-Go in it. I say, “Good luck in the game?” I personally would represent where I came from and maybe she will. If I was in her position, I wouldn’t be worrying about how mysterious I might appear to the public. At this point, especially with such drastic transitions, I would be wondering about if I was still a mystery to myself. Your background only has an effect of you if you want something specific to happen. If you are a gangster rapper, the public finding out that you haven’t offed anyone can actually fuck up your career, but, like the slogan for the new Clooney film Michael Clayton states “The Truth Can Be Adjusted“. If anyone knows that, it’s the media.
–Dead C
one reverend to another,
when did she leave the great Oly-WA community? was I around for this?
You spelled my name wrong.
She better enjoy her 15 minutes. She’s a jobless goldigging nobody with absolutely no talent that has nothing to offer but poon, and when that gets old she gets to go back to being a waitress. Why George is even with her average looking sorry ass is beyond me. She must be able suck gold ball through a garden hose. Too bad for her she’s hooked up with the biggest player on earth. She is playing so out of her league it isn’t funny.
You spelled my name wrong, too.
I can’t stop laughing
I think all you kids were out of control. You all should have been caged until at least 25. As I recall Sarah was a nice quiet girl and I thought rather pretty. Maybe she was complaining because she felt things were not right. There is nothing wrong with wanting something better. Sarah certainly is good enough for George. I do like George’s acting, but maybe George isn’t good enough for Sarah. I mean until Sarah came into George’s life I was beginning to think he was gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Fifteen minutes of fame, heh, why not. How many of us get that.
Do you know why I wrote “I’m in love with a stripper?” Shit, George don’t even know. Player play on.
J’s Mom–
I don’t disagree with you. I just wanted to put things down in perspective and also had hopes of killing the hype. If the media is looking in to tearing someone down they will find the same info and print it differently. Anything that I wrote could have been printed as “Clooney dates violent drug addict hooker”. Now what can they say that hasn’t been said. Nothing, and they can’t twist anything either. It’s been said. Hopefully the fuel’s gone. 15 minutes of out of control though….why not?
T-Pain–
I read your comment as if it was typed through a vocoder, just like you would have wanted.
HI, this is Sarahs’ Aunt Sue. I haven’t actually seen Sarah myself for many years. I always enjoyed Sarah and her sisters. I remember lots of camping trips and slumber parties with the girls at my house. It was fun. Anyway as her Aunt who still loves her very much, all I can say is I hope she is having a good time and that Mr. Clooney treats her well. As far as all these things you say happened, maybe they did, maybe not. I wouldn’t know. I do know she was a dancer because last time I ran into her mother she told me Sarah was dancing in Vegas. Everything you said sounds to me like a young woman trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. Let’s face facts, you were all very young, I’m surprised you are carrying so much bitterness after all this time. It’s pretty obvious in your writing. I also know she was on Fear Factor but never saw the show. A lot of that stuff grossed me out and I couldn’t watch. I’m actually very happy for her and I really hope she doesn’t get hurt. I bought the People Magazine you mentioned because for me, being her Aunt, it has sentimenal value. Oh yeah, I’m her Aunt by marriage, I was married to her fathers’ brother. My son Erik, also a Larson, was born a couple of hours before Sarah on the same day. That was a big deal for the whole family. They were both beautiful babies. I found your story to be hateful and spiteful. So you and Sarah didn’t get along, big deal! Not everyone on the planet is going to like everyone else. So what! Everyone is different. A more tolerant attitude towards our fellow man or woman is in order. I want Sarah to enjoy her 15 minutes of fame. Why not?
so after this all news hit, i too tried to find credits for a Sarah Larson as model/actress, and i could find nothing. but i did come across a number of web sites, one of which, http://www.clooneystudio.com, seemed to keep up with late breaking news on all things Clooney. a few people who were posting comments on some photos there started uncovering the ‘go go dancer’ info, as well as some pretty skanky looking photos of Sarah wearing next to nothing and sitting with a bunch of guys in one of the Palms nightclubs, etc. but if you submitted a comment that was negative or scathing about her or GC, the editor of http://www.clooneystudio.com would not post it. the editor would also not post the skanky pics, only the pics that made Sarah look like a princess. eventually, i guess because the commenters were closing in on the ‘truth’ of the ‘mystery girl’ (go go dancer), the editor finally removed the ability to leave any comments at all, and also removed all existing comments. so much for freedom of speech! and isn’t that ironic since GC made an entire movie about blacklisting people (it was called the McCarthy era)! this blog info appears to be an honest account of a (somewhat shakey) friendship with this girl for years. so thanks. i agree it was a much better idea to post it here than to feed this info to some salivating journalist for pay. it’s possible they wanted to buy your story just to keep it off the ‘net. anything is possible. i enjoyed reading this. the truth wil come out. i also look at ALL media reports about GC and ‘girlfriends’ with a skeptical eye. girlfriend in this instance may be an overstatement. give it a few weeks.
Hey Aunt Sue–
I think she was a young girl trying to figure herself out too. That’s pretty much what i said. I never hated her, but if you want to make accusations that I do, I tried to sway away from some things that could be percieved as her having more of a hateful nature.
Regardless, I think that this article holds more weight than someone related to her or even someone that claims to be her friend, or anyone from the Hollywood media. My whole point is that, whatever comes out in the media as far as attacks towards her way, she’s still a normal girl, that’s done things every has witnessed in one way or another by somebody else.
I’m not her aunt, so I don’t find a need to get on the internet and post things about how she’s a magical angel, but I also don’t work for a tabloid so there’s no need to tear her apart and call her an evil bitch either. Sugary articles hold about as much weight as slander.
I think this is a pretty accurate representation of events. I even try to speculate on her motivations and actions created by her environment. If you can’t see that, and can only focus on what you percieve as negative, it’s because it hits too close to home.
If I wanted to be a dick, this would have looked a whole lot difference. Obviously you are scouring the internet for your niece so you have something for the scrapbook. Sorry, but maybe you haven’t read accusations on other sites that are unfounded. I didn’t call her a call girl (some sites do) in fact, i tried to kill that rumor. Tell me one thing in this article that a tabloid wouldn’t have made worse and wouldn’t have found out about. Believe it or not, the fact that this shit is believable is because it’s truthful. Maybe that means that any minor flaw I pointed out will be believed, but if you really chill out and think about it, anything in her defense will be as well. You have to be honest if you expect to establish any sort of credibility. I just made it more difficult for people to gather more dirt on your precious niece. Maybe you should read it again.
Furthermore, why does everyone that is overly supportive keep referring to this as 15 minutes of fame. If you really believe that, than it’s fucked up and you’ve got your own priorities twisted. If you think it’s great to start a relationship with someone to get on a magazine that’s fucked up in its own right.
Oh, and everyone can stop saying “You were all young”. That’s irrelevant, and I’ve read this shit a million times. I don’t think I’m being an asshole in this article. 3 or 4 years ago, we were all young, now, we are all adults? That’s bullshit. I have a question for the ones who mention the 15 minutes of fame: “For who?”
Her fame’s coming from someone else. Think about it.
Exactly! Check IMDB and put both names in and who has a tree and who hasn’t even planted the seed of motion pictures. Ride that train like that song from back in the day. The question I have is who did George Clooney’s fame come from?
Wow it’s AKON! It must really be you or why would you have typed that in?
The answer to your question is his parents. Clooney’s parents were already famous. That was probably a rhetorical question though.
Thats right sonny, you leaver that poor gurl alone you whippersnapper, U R SIIIICK, You are just trying to start a relationship with with me…… but sorry sonny I am 82 and you wont be bankin on me…
no for real now. I am a professional stock brocker/ talent scout and I think that this post shows a lot of hutspa… I like youre style…seee and Meet me at the Rand Dong night club..and we can talk about makin you kids a ….staaaaaaaar
Christopher, I LOVE the Gelfling part!!!
This is what America is all about. Working 3 jobs: Go Go Dance, Actress, and Model. A true American Patriot.
She actually punched a guy in the face? Whatev. Thank God Georgie boy has bodyguards. Btw, girls closing in on 30 who are dancing poles in Vegas are looking for one thing: Ka-ching! To put this another way, ‘Nice girl’ my *ss. Scroll down to third set of photos at: http://www.secondarybits.blogspot.com/
DeadC, Thanks for writing this about Sarah. I can see it was hard on
you. Also, that you were too nice to her in your writings. What you
wrote rang so true, unlike things I had read previously. I had so
much trouble people saying Sarah was nice & then trying to fit it
in to her working as gogo dancer, etc. at the vegas club. Never could
make out why she would have a 4 year degree, yet stayed so long
working in the club…but I did more often think it was that she was
after something big, as a predator waiting for a star to come along
or wealthy guy. When I’d see the photos of the club where she worked,
my thoughts were of the many tricks she must’ve learned about
pleasing men.
Her bossiness must’ve paid off…she did get to come out of George’s
closet & travel with him. But…how long he can take her we will
wait & see.
Dead C, I’m glad you wrote it yourself and not give it to some magazine reporter…it wouldn’t have come off the same way. This was funny. Funny in the way you wrote things not in the way things went down. I too hate when people say “because you were all young”, okay but at that age you should know when your being an a**hole to somebody or when your being annoying as hell then you adjust it. And from what I’m getting from your stories, she probably was really more than a handfull, a lot more than what you portray. As one blogger said, the website http://www.clooneystudio.com (all things GC) had the ladies out for blood at one point and they are definitely quick to research who “their man” is keeping company with. I got to read some of the comments before they were removed and they were just hilarious and scathing. Ms. Sarah Larson is dealing with a seasoned professional, been around the block more then once, dater. He doesn’t strike me as someone who would put up with bullsh*t, so if she still has a tendency or feels like she’s in the mood to take a swing at George, I don’t believe that will go off well for her. If she’s around that long to find out. The use of the word “Girlfriend” like in every article written about them, should be used loosely…He’s known to hit it and quit it or hit it and keep her around (as a booty call) until something else comes along. (In his little black book, history repeats itself sans marriage). Plus they have a whole 18 years between them, that’s a whole other person! What do they really have in common?
And seriously, how long is too long to be a Go-Go dancer before it gets to be a ridiculous occupation for your age? Not to mention an almost 30 year old Go-Go dancer with a degree. WTF?
please note that this arm candy generated a ton of ‘free’ publicity while gc was on the festival circuit promoting Michael Clayton. now that the festival circuit is over, please note there are no new photos showing larson and clooney ‘together’. this ‘couple’ does not exist. gc to the media: ‘you’ve been had’.
Ooops! Looks like the eye candy is back… instead of 15 minutes, might turn into 30 minutes!
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070919/482/10b55550611746f6b1028258845a32c8
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070919/ids_photos_en/r3104760849.jpg
I would put nothing past the prankster. Give it 45!
Oh Gawd. Ms. Larson has spawned an entire new generation of Vegas pole dancers and Fear Factor wannabees. Legions will follow her career path: Pole Dancer to Fear Factor to (eventually) beatification by the Pope for her work in Darfur. Saint of the Gutters redux!! But for now, it’s back to being in a ‘state of service’ to Mr. Clooney underpants.
“Spawned”?
At the beginning of the year he was apparently dating another girl named Sarah that he met in Vegas. She was an exotic dancer that he met last December while finishing the shooting of Oceans 13
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her photos and story are around. she is a stripper who claims she had a four month affair. the photo showing clooney ‘with her’ could be photoshopped, or merely fan photos. you never know. it was she, not GC, who made the hookup known. and he never was seen with her in public.
Good article, but even better is all the response from all the crazy George Clooney (sorry, I mean G.C.) obsessed ladies who are thanking Dead C for the article.
i for one don’t like GC ‘in that way’. ewww!!! he’s an alpha skunk who’s left his scent in a few too many places. heh. but his bank account is extremely attractive.
You all are quite mean with her. She is trying to make a living leaving Las Vegas.And it’s true: all the stuff looks like a big stunt… for both two George and Sarah
To deadc,
very honest you did not deal with National Enquirer and other tabloids.
But eventually:do you thin she has changed since you met her for the last time? By the way; she has a B.S,why couldn’t she find a better job?
What bank account? If he keeps on doing movies for nothing he just might have to sell the Villa. That’s probably why those jewels she was wearing were borrowed. It’s that plus he doesn’t know her well enough to buy them for her. No, buying them would make it seem like she would be around for a whie. He can’t have her thinking that right now…I’m sure he’ll wine and dine her for a little bit but not long enough for her pole in Vegas to get cold. She might be a gold-digger but he is such a cad, it’s ridiculous.
I enjoyed your blog about Sarah Larsen. I have my own perspective as someone who’s in the industry and knows a bit about GC. Sarah is not going to last. She’s young and simply the latest in a line of frivolities for him. His black book is a 3 volume set and he is KNOWN for being a slut. He is also known for being kinky, liking to be spanked and being a huge commitmentphobe. This was a marketing ploy, plain and simple. The timing with the film’s release was no coincidence. Picking up an alleged “model” (LOL at the reference to someone who has earned her living as a go-go dancer and waitress, and has never worked as a model) in Vegas and smooching her in public is SMART on his part. Why the public continues to buy Hollywood’s manipulative spin is hysterical. It’s the same as many of the other “couples” who hook up to promote films, and then conveniently part ways not long thereafter. Get a grip, folks. George is playing you.
I saw that photo of the Jesse James Premiere. George often looks
drugged or drunkened on something. If that’s not it, then the
age difference might be too hard on him. His face reminds me
of my brother’s who died before age 30 of an alcohol related death.
Drinking wore his heart out til he needed a heart transplant.
I hate George got involved in Vegas which might do him in just
like it did Elvis.
George, you put too much on yourself and need to take better
care of you.
i would say he has a healthy bank account.
the villa oleandra set him back 10 mill, then he bought the villa margherita (west of his swimming pool) for another few mill, then he bought a third house behind villa margherita. besides these structures, he either built or converted another (fourth) house into a sizeable editing studio, also adding an iron bridge overpass to avoid crossing a main road to get to it. the bridge required special permitting, which was approved with unusual and considerable speed by Laglio city functionaries. this special treatment did not go un-noticed by the locals. he also has caretaker and garden houses on the property (one adjacent, one separate from the main villa). “clooneyville” (as the locals refer to it) stretches along Lake Como for a nice little distance — 600 yards or so. a few years ago, when he tried to buy his tiny town’s only public beach, a 25 foot strip in front of villa margherita (citing privacy concerns), the locals had had it with his alpha grasping ways, and promptly dispatched a band of hooligans to defile the villa margheria with graffiti and window smashing. did Diane Sawyer include all this in her report/interview with GC from Lake Como? I did not see the entire broadcast, but I would guess she did not. GC has caused property values to triple in Laglio since his arrival, not to mention the influx of tourists willing to part with cash or credit cards at local shops. some would say Laglio should be grateful. but a) not everyone is a homeowner or shopkeeper, and b) even grateful Italians have their limits.
whether true or no, i read his las ramblas ‘failure’ in las vegas actually resulted in a 50% profit. now that’s not a shabby ROI (return on investment). the land was accumulated for the hotel/casino development (that never materialized) at a cost of $85 million, then post-meltdown the aggregate was sold for close to twice that — $150?. GC was only one of many investors involved in the project, so the $50-$70 million profit was split many ways. what does this mean? once you have big money (and are dealing with others in that exclusive circle), it’s hard to lose it.
what i find strange is that the media reports only on GC’s ‘villa’, not villa(s). perhaps that fits their ‘sound bite’ time constaints, or perhaps it paints him in a better light…owner of a single villa as opposed to massive cancer like growth that made some Laglio locals determined to ‘stop GC’. the dust has probably settled on this issue, and i have no idea what happened to the buy-the-beach dilemma, but i believe GC’s people backed off.
here is the link to the british ‘telegraph’ which ran the story about clooneyville in 2005. it includes a charming map showing the layout of the compound.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/20/wcloo20.xml
also, lake como is spectacular. rent ‘a month by the lake’ starring vanessa redgrave and uma thurman. it’s a slow period piece filled with annoying characters, and shot (mostly) at villa balbianello. i do not know of any other film that showcases lake como so beautifully.
Ok, Hollywood Insider, you can’t just SAY that w/o providing details. Kinky? Need more details, please.
lol – Hollywood Insider. First time I hear of that! Definitely – more details please i.e. as in proof. Otherwise, no need to start another rumour… plenty out there on George (or forgot – GC) already!
i don’t believe it either. i think that rumour was started on the www claiming that GC gave it to a friend’s girlfriend (up the bum) while simultaneously choking himself with his tie. they posted a fake Vanity Fair cover as well, (depicting GC yanking tight on his necktie, natch). the parody was in poor taste, and not based on fact.
Why can’t these actors date women their age?
So what about her past- who cares. And if her fame only last 15 min, it would all be worth it, what woman wouldn’t want to be seen on the arm of George Clooney. And if she gets to spend one night over-you know- hell I’d take her place even for 15 minutes. Although I do have to say I’m a little jealous after all I thought George was saving hisself for when he met me.
Tammi,
some very interesting questions you brought up. “Who cares?”…hmmm. I think that I can field that one. Maybe every site, TV program, and article asking about her past, or maybe the person who searched her out on a search engine and linked to this page. I doubt you were on here reading my interview with Jazz organist Marco Benevento, learning about nuclear missile silos, or entering the M.I.A. competition.
What woman wouldn’t want to recieve a brief glimpse of fame by sleeping with an aging celebrity and having pictures taking of them walking down the street, you ask? I don’t know… one with class? She hasn’t even said a word on camera through this whole thing. Some people may want to recieve recognition for their own accomplishments. She might very likely believe that this is actually a real relationship, and it might very well be, so this isn’t an attack on Sarah. The real issue here is that nobody else seems to think so, yet many of you praise her for what you view as high class prostitution. If you see it that way and think that it’s the greatest fucking possible result that you could ever achieve in your life, maybe the best thing that you could ever hope for is, in reality, a life coach.
My question is, why George Clooney wasn’t waiting for someone that uses terms like “hisself”?
Maybe you could have switched your life with hers for 15 minutes earlier today when she was hit with a vehicle, broke her foot, scraped up her face and/or when she was transported to the hospital.
Support the surge!
George is not above pimping out fake charity work to promote his career and also to give himself a “serious image”. He learnt from observing Angelina Jolie that pimping out a bit of fake charity work can distract attention from an otherwise troubling “private life” [or in his case lack of one]. Hence his involvement in Darfur and One org – done only for PR and image reasons.
George Clooney has become a total fraud of a human being completely absorbed in his self image and oozing arrogance from every pore. Now he has come up with a “pretend” girlfriend who he is shoving in front of the cameras at every turn for image reasons. George Clooney is about as phoney as a $3 bill.
Well, I didn’t read anything here about Sarah that makes me think someone couldn’t love her.
And even “players” settle down when they fall in love.
Maybe it will last between them. Maybe not – but they’ve been seeing each other for nearly a year now? (They met in December?) That’s a long time.
One of the most romantic stories I’ve heard, is David Letterman’s – he married someone no one had ever “heard of” after keeping their relationship quiet for many years.
I think it’s sweet.
And I think actors who date non-actors are far sexier than the actors who go after starlets. Like Matt Damon. And Jimmy Fallon. Sigh… they both hooked up with non-actors, and it only made them hotter in my eyes. I am glad George Clooney is the type to fall for a “real” woman who is obviously complex. That makes him a real man to me.
He was passing ‘on the right’, a no-no in Jersey and every other state in the union. says the car signaled a left turn, then turned right instead and clipped him, but he still should not have been passing on the right.
deadc, thanks for sharing your prospective on Sarah. It shed some light on someone who at first, was being shopped around as a mystery girl/model/European soon to be morphed into a super model from a wealthy family. The PR machine and media are a dangerous bunch.
I have always been uncomfortable with men or women who gain fame by who they sleep with, not what they accomplish on their own. It is sometime unavoidable, but I thought you pretty much were fair in your memories of her and what you knew. You didn’t judge.
Her “Aunt” wants to perhaps use some of the things being printed or released (as in photos) as part of a scrap book? How do you title that book page: Sarah, when she was sleeping with George Clooney?
I can understand the fear factor scrap book, I can understand some of the pics on Jared site, they are at least of Sarah, at work, on her own, but how exactly do you dress up that bit, and how do you explain it. Basically, he buys her clothes, borrows jewelry for her, and then takes her out. She seems to be treated well, but should it be apart of a scrap book, this may or may not be a relationship.
I’ve always been fascinated by women who date famous men, and become famous for dating them. They don’t care how old they are, or what number they are in their book as long as they are there, and that point fascinates me.
I read a proposed novel once, The Movie Star’s Girlfriend, that was funny, and so realistic about Hollywood, I emailed the author and asked her if she were an insider. They are still talking about the publishing, but I wish I could get you a copy, even a brief excerpt, you would see how those things, dating, mating and separating is often guided by who has what coming out soon and who needs publicity for what, right down to the watch they are wearing and the restaurant they have dinner at afterwards.
I heard about the accident and wish them, well. Sarah broke her foot, George got the scraps on his bod, no idea where, and broken rib, her face, from all reports wasn’t harmed. Speedy recovery to them both.
Thanks again deadc, for sharing, you didn’t gloss, bullsh*t or suck up, you simply said, this is the girl I know, that’s all I know. I respect that.
choice of watch and dining experience orchestrated for commercial gain? that is so cold.
also, they met in JUNE, not December, at the Ocean’s premier in Vegas.
Jane-
That’s true they didn’t meet last December, this relationship is very recent. The reference to last December is in regards to another woman named Sarah from Vegas who was an exotic dancer. She claimed that they had a relationship from last December and it lasted 3 months. There is a picture of them on the Star magazine site. She came out with this info before Clooney ever met Sarah Larson.
Yo, Dead C,
I loved your blog or post or whatever it’s called. You can nail the shit, keep your cool, and use the language. You’ve got a career or something in writing if the right suit scans your para.
Cheers
Dance