Sarah Larson describes how she met George Clooney

Sarah Larson - George Clooney’s first girlfriend that could be called “serious” since… well… ever, probably – says that she and George actually met a long time before the often mentioned Oceans Thirteen premiere in Las Vegas last year. According to Larson, she met George at his birthday bash “three or four years ago,” but she was seeing someone at the time When he found out she was working at another club last summer, he got in touch with her, and a month later asked her to go to Italy with him.

Sarah Larson cleared up a big mystery on Wednesday: how she ended up in the company of actor George Clooney, one of the world's most eligible bachelors. It was long before the much-reported "Ocean's Thirteen" premiere during CineVegas last June at the Palms, said Larson, in her first lengthy interview since their relationship got serious.

"It was on his birthday three or four years ago at Whiskey at Green Valley Ranch," she said. Clooney was with some friends, including Whiskey owner Rande Gerber, "and I was with some friends. We were all dancing, taking pictures, being silly," she said. Larson, who worked as a cocktail server at Whiskey, was dating someone else at the time.

Last June, when Clooney came to town for the "Ocean's" premiere, "he heard I was working at Moon," made contact at the nightclub, and "we hung out," she said. A month later, he invited her to go to Italy. It's been a whirlwind romance ever since. She's attended world premieres with him, attended the Academy Awards on his arm, survived a motorbike crash with him and met his parents.

[From the Las Vegas Review Journal]

Larson is working on a career as a model. At 28, she’s actually a bit old to be starting out as a model, but she’s absolutely stunning. She’s just signed with the Nous Agency in Los Angeles, and made some barely-veiled hints that she and George would be going to Milan when they’re in Italy next month. Not surprisingly, she said Clooney is very supportive of her modeling career, and made some joke that if he wasn’t, she’d walk away. Somehow I don’t believe that.