WWII Bomb Removed From George Clooney’s Italian Villa

(HMG) -  George Clooney’s 18th century villa in Lake Cuomo, Italy is frequently being overrun with paparazzi seeking to shoot ever more revealing photos of him and his girlfriend, Italian television anchor Elisabetta Canalis, that will fetch a high price online and in print.  But what George didn’t know was that his home faced a threat from the past. A 500 lb explosive dating from the Second World War was found under 15 yards of water just in front of the actor’s $40 million, 30-bed mansion. On Wednesday, experts retrieved and disabled the device, along with mines and other raw explosives, and closed down the entire town of Laglio around the villa while exhuming the weapons, thought to be dropped from a WWII bomber. Clooney, who is not living in the 30-bed  mansion at present, is rumored to be selling off the villa this year.  In February he announced plans to sell the villa, which was once owned by the Heinz family, sparking a bidding war between David and Victoria Beckham and a Russian vodka billionaire.

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