American actor George Clooney attends voting ceremonies during the first day of voting for the independence referendum in the southern Sudanese city of Juba January 9, 2011 in Juba, Sudan. South Sudan is participating in an independence referendum following a historic 2005 peace treaty that brought to an end decades of civil war between the Arab north and predominantly Christian and animist south. The south is expected to vote around 99 percent to secede from the north which will also give it a majority of Sudan’s oil. The result is expected to split Africa’s largest country in two. Over two million people were killed in the north-south civil war which began in the 1950s. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor George Clooney is offering more help to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by headlining a European fundraiser this summer for Americans living abroad.
An invitation posted on Obama’s campaign website says Clooney will be the special guest at an Obama fundraiser in Geneva, Switzerland, on Aug. 27.
Tickets start at $1,000 per person, and dinner for two costs a cool $30,000.
Clooney held a gala fundraiser at his Los Angeles home in May that raised nearly $15 million. He typically spends time during the summer at his villa on Italy’s Lake Como.
Obama’s campaign has held fundraising events overseas to raise money from U.S. citizens living abroad.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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