Clooney buys £117m lotto tickets for Haiti

London: Actor George Clooney has purchased hundreds of Italy’s 117-million-pound lottery tickets, and promised to donate it to Haiti should he win.

Clooney, 48, was joined by his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, 31, and his Lake Como neighbours in buying the tickets. “The jackpot is so high so why not try?” a daily quoted him as saying. The actor had recently held a benefit gig for Haiti, in which Madonna and Beyonce had taken part. ANI