{"id":361299,"date":"2025-12-21T05:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361299\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:38:07","slug":"george-clooneys-sister-dies-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361299\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney\u2019s Sister Dies at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph standard-cheatsheet-link\">Adelia \u201cAda\u201d Zeidler, the older sister of George Clooney, has died at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. \u201cMy sister, Ada, was my hero,\u201d the actor told People magazine, confirming she passed away on Friday. \u201cShe faced down cancer with courage and humor. I\u2019ve never met anyone so brave. Amal and I will miss her terribly,\u201d the 64-year-old Jay Kelly star continued. Her <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.mhfuneralhome.com\/adeliazeidler&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mhfuneralhome.com\/adeliazeidler\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mhfuneralhome.com\/adeliazeidler\">obituary<\/a>, written by the funeral home in the family\u2019s native Kentucky, describes Zeidler as having \u201cdied peacefully surrounded by the people she loved.\u201d Ada\u2019s husband, Norman Zeidler, died of a heart attack in October. \u201cA talented artist, she shared her skills as an elementary art teacher at Augusta Independent School for several years,\u201d the obituary reads, although she later worked as a bookkeeper. Zeidler, who kept herself out of the spotlight, made few public appearances. However, she did attend Clooney\u2019s lavish 2014 wedding to his wife, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, in Venice, Italy. Zeidler\u2019s obituary adds: \u201cIn addition to her parents, she leaves behind her beloved children, Nick Zeidler and Allison Zeidler Herolaga and her husband, Kenny; her brother, George Clooney and his wife, Amal; and several uncles, aunts, and cousins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelia \u201cAda\u201d Zeidler, the older sister of George Clooney, has died at the age of 65 after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-361299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}