MBI strikes the news again
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer... yet another instance of Munchausen wankery...

He's played a smart con man pulling off big heists. Now, George Clooney is the victim of a con.

A rep for the actor revealed to MSNBC that after a woman began writing him last year about her cancer-stricken daughter, Clooney started sending gifts and making calls to the terminally ill girl.

Before long, he began to doubt "Cindy" really existed. "He called her one day, and said, 'Great news. I'm getting a private plane and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon and I are all coming to see you.' Then he gets a call back from the mother that the daughter suddenly died," Clooney's spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, said. It all turned out to be fake.


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But, wait, it gets weirder.

"Now the mother supposedly has a sister who supposedly killed herself -- she did it on George's answering machine," says Rosenfield. "And the mother is suing George for wrongful death. But the woman and the daughter and the sister are all the same person."

-- Kristin Dizon