George Clooney and his family are now citizens of France. Good luck with that!

George Clooney, woman Amal Clooney and their 8-year-old twins are officially citizens of France, arsenic of the time aft Christmas.

The quality was reported by aggregate French outlets arsenic good arsenic the Guardian, each citing an announcement published successful a French authorities journal.

The Clooneys bought spot successful France — a farm, helium precocious told Esquire — successful August 2021, erstwhile their twins were 4. He said it was a “much amended life” determination for Ella and Alexander.

“Yeah, we’re precise lucky. ... A bully information of my beingness increasing up was connected a farm, and arsenic a kid I hated the full thought of it. But now, for them, it’s similar — they’re not connected their iPads, you know?” helium said successful the interview, published successful the magazine’s October/November issue.

“I was disquieted astir raising our kids successful L. A., successful the civilization of Hollywood. I felt similar they were ne'er going to get a just shingle astatine life. France — they benignant of don’t springiness a s— astir fame. I don’t privation them to beryllium walking astir disquieted astir paparazzi. I don’t privation them being compared to idiosyncratic else’s celebrated kids.”

George Clooney joined Amal Alamuddin successful September 2014 successful Venice, Italy.

Domaine Le Canadel successful France is, according to Hello, “an enchanting and sprawling 425-acre Provence vino estate” that outgo the Clooneys a reported $8.3 million. It has a pool, tennis court, gardens, a lake, an olive grove and a 25-acre vineyard, the outlet said. But, you know, it’s conscionable a farm.

Other personage couples person enactment down roots successful the area, of course, with little than charmed results implicit time. Then again, those folks weren’t French citizens, for the astir part.

Clooney’s remarks astir the French cognition toward fame echoed erstwhile comments made by Johnny Depp, who years agone recovered refuge successful France for himself and his children, Jack and Lily-Rose, until helium divided successful 2012 from longtime spouse Vanessa Paradis, a French singer, exemplary and actor.

The state “afforded [Depp] the anticipation of surviving a mean life. Really a elemental life,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” histrion told SFGate successful 2001.

In 2010, Depp told People, “With Vanessa and the kids, we unrecorded successful a benignant of small colony successful the southbound and I person the content of being successful paradise ... and you cognize what I bash there? Absolutely nothing.”

Depp, who started dating his “The Rum Diary” co-star Amber Heard the twelvemonth helium broke up with Paradis, listed his Provence spot for merchantability for astir $26 cardinal successful June 2015, past reportedly enactment it connected the marketplace again successful the years that followed for much than doubly the price. However, contempt containing an full colony successful its 37 acres, the spot appears not to person sold.

Heard and Depp joined successful 2015 but divorced 2 years aboriginal amid allegations of abuse. Of course, dueling defamation lawsuits followed. It got ugly.

Meanwhile, Clooney’s buddy Brad Pitt and Pitt’s ex, Angelina Jolie, person been battling successful tribunal for years implicit the 2021 merchantability of her fractional of their Provence vino estate, Chateau Miraval, which really produces wine. The erstwhile mates signed a semipermanent lease connected the spot successful 2008 and aboriginal bought a controlling involvement successful the institution that owned it.

Pitt and Jolie joined astatine Chateau Miraval successful 2014 aft gathering successful 2004 connected the acceptable of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” erstwhile helium was inactive joined to Jennifer Aniston. (They went authoritative arsenic a mates the pursuing July aft Aniston filed for divorcement successful March 2005.) Jolie and Pitt had kids and adopted kids unneurotic implicit the decennary starring up to the wedding, but Jolie filed for divorcement aft lone 2 years arsenic hubby and woman pursuing a combat connected a backstage plane. That besides got ugly.

The communicative of the Pitt-Jolie tribunal conflict implicit the chateau and its winery is agelong and complicated, but it began with Pitt alleging that helium and his ex had an statement that if either wanted to merchantability their fractional of the place, the different would person to consent. Jolie, who sold her shares to Stoli’s vino division, Tenute del Mondo, said they had nary specified statement successful place.

Although the winery suit remains active, Pitt and Jolie yet reached a divorcement colony successful December 2024.