Apology from ‘Daily Mail’ over Clooney story

Britain’s Daily Mail has apologised to actor George Clooney for alleging his fiancée’s mother opposed the marriage on religious grounds — a story he called both wrong and irresponsible.

Clooney is engaged to Beirut-born London lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who comes from a family of Druse, adherents of a monotheistic religion based mainly in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

Citing unnamed family “friends”, the newspaper’s MailOnline website this week reported that her mother, Baria Alamuddin, wanted her 36-year-old daughter to marry a Druse man.