{"id":203759,"date":"2025-12-21T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203759\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:19:07","slug":"george-clooneys-sister-adelia-zeidler-dies-at-65-due-to-cancer-actor-says-amal-and-i-will-miss-her-terribly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203759\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney\u2019s sister Adelia Zeidler dies at 65 due to cancer, actor says, \u2018Amal and I will miss her terribly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hollywood star George Clooney\u2019s<\/a> elder sister, Adelia “Ada” Zeidler, passed away at the age of 65 on Friday, December 19. She had been suffering from cancer for an extended period, as per People<\/a>. According to her obituary<\/a>, she died \u201cpeacefully, surrounded by the people she loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ada Ada Zeidler was George Clooney’s elder sister.(Metcalfe-Hennessey Funeral Home) <\/p>\n

Ada breathed her last at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky<\/a>. Her funeral will take place on Monday, December 22.<\/p>\n

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Who was Ada Zeidler?<\/p>\n

People reports that Clooney\u2019s elder sister was born on May 2, 1960, to TV host Nick Clooney and writer Nina Bruce Warren. She got married to a retired Army captain \u2013 Norman Zeidler \u2013 on March 14, 1987. Her aunt, famous singer Rosemary Clooney, performed at her wedding while her brother George read scripture.<\/p>\n

Norman predeceased his wife and passed away in 2004. The couple had two children \u2013 son Nicholas and daughter Allison. According to Page Six<\/a>, Zeidler was an elementary art teacher at the Augusta Independent School and a high school National Merit Scholar.<\/p>\n

George Clooney on his sister\u2019s bravery<\/p>\n

George Clooney talked about his sister in an exclusive chat with People magazine. \u201cMy sister, Ada, was my hero,” Clooney said. “She faced down cancer with courage and humor. I\u2019ve never met anyone so brave. Amal and I will miss her terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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George Clooney\u2019s bond with his sister<\/p>\n

Ada Zeidler was usually away from the spotlight as she tried to maintain a low profile. She did attend the high-profile wedding of her brother to renowned lawyer Amal Clooney in 2014.<\/p>\n

While Ada made very few public appearances alongside her brother, he admitted that he shared a deep bond with his sister. \u201cMy sister, I\u2019m very close to,\u201d George Clooney had told CBS <\/a>in 2015.<\/p>\n

Ada, too, valued her relationship with George greatly. To safeguard her brother\u2019s privacy, she did not save his number on her phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to have it in my phone and then lose my phone,\u201d she said in 2012 in an interview, Page Six<\/a> reports. \u201cHe can phone me, and he does occasionally, but email is more convenient for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood star George Clooney\u2019s elder sister, Adelia “Ada” Zeidler, passed away at the age of 65 on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[107340,107339,107341,321,93,11196,107343,107342,61,60],"class_list":["post-203759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ada-zeidler","tag-adelia-ada-zeidler","tag-adelia-zeidler","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-george-clooney","tag-george-clooney-family","tag-george-clooney-sister","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}