Los Angeles - George Clooney on Friday
said he would take legal action against a French magazine that
published the first photos of his newborn twins.
The "Ocean's Eleven" actor said photographers from Voici
magazine "scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took
pictures of our infants inside our home."
Clooney said in a statement that the photographers and the
magazine "will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The safety of our children demands it."
Clooney and his humanitarian lawyer wife, Amal, announced
the arrival of the twins - a boy and a girl called Alexander and
Ella - in June but have given no details, photos or interviews
about them.
Voici on Friday published grainy photos of Amal and George
Clooney, dressed in swim wear, each carrying one of the babies
in their arms. They appear to be walking in a garden in what the
magazine said was the Clooneys' villa near Lake Como in Italy.
Voici magazine did not immediately respond to requests for
comment.
The babies are their first children for the couple, who
married in Venice, Italy in 2014 in a big celebrity ceremony but
who have tried to keep their personal lives private since then.