George Clooney to sue magazine over twins' photos

George Clooney on Saturday said he would take legal action against a French magazine that published the first photos of his newborn twins.

The Ocean’s Eleven actor said photographers from Voici magazine “scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home.”

Clooney said in a statement that the photographers and the magazine “will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The safety of our children demands it.”

Clooney and his humanitarian lawyer wife, Amal, announced the arrival of the twins — a boy and a girl called Alexander and Ella — in June but have given no details, photos or interviews about them.

Voici on Friday published grainy photos of Amal and George Clooney, dressed in swim wear, each carrying one of the babies in their arms. They appear to be walking in a garden in what the magazine said was the Clooneys’ villa near Lake Como in Italy.     

According to the BBC, the magazine said there was “public demand” for the photos. Voici argued that publishing the photos was in the public interest.