A Snoop McSneak Exclusive

Snoop McSneak’s sit down with Leslie Bennett and an exclusive sneak peek into her latest interview with African Girl or in Ms. Bennett’s words, the latest member of the dumped women Association

After her last big Interview in 2005, Ms Leslie Bennett took a long hiatus from Vanity fair. Some say it’s because the interview was the biggest crap ever written. One industry insider put it like this “After reading that garbage, I wasn’t sure who Brad Pitt had dumped…Leslie or Jen” Another insider added “Yeah, what happened to remaining objective? Obviously Leslie sees herself as the champion of dumped women everywhere”. Ms. Bennett dismisses the allegations that she was unfair to Ms. Jolie and insists she remained objective

“I don’t know what everyone is talking about. I was very focused on my objective...which was to show the reason women like me hate beautiful, sexy exciting women with hearts of Gold and why men love them. It’s unfair to us homely girls…it’s not our fault we’re not exciting or that we prefer drinking margaritas on the porch of our beach house to going to Africa or Iraq on humanitarian trips."

As for her long absence from Vanity Fair, Ms. Bennett insists it’s because she hasn’t found a worthy subject to write about…since her last interview and she’d rather take a break from writing than write fluff like some of her colleagues.

“I see all the other magazine devoting pages to Humanitarians and trying to highlight the plights of refugees and it saddens me. This is not what we are about…we have millionaires going through divorce here in the US and my colleagues would rather waste time and money writing about AIDS/HIV children. It’s appalling” She said in disgust.

Asked if she had anything in the works, Ms. Bennett smiled coyly and answered…

"As a matter of fact, I do. Have you heard that George Clooney is getting married?” we had not but we pretended to.

“Oh yeah, to that African Chick…what’s her name African Girl”.

“No, To a Sarah Larsen” Ms. Bennett answered giddily.

Sarah Larsen? We tried to place a face to name but we came up short.

“You’re wondering what happened to African Girl” She asked barely containing her excitement “Well you’re going to find out soon because I just to interviewed her”

“Really? Her?” We couldn’t help the surprise in our voice. Last we heard African Girl or AG as she’s fondly called by closed friends wasn’t a celebrity. As a matter of fact, according to her last bank statement (don’t ask us how we got a hold of it) she didn’t even have up to a thousand dollars. So why would Ms. Bennett, the champion of Millionaire divorcees everywhere, talk to this her? We never got an answer…what we did get however, was a sneak peek at the explosive interview.

THE UNSINKABLE AFRICAN GIRL

The whole world watched as her "perfect" non-relationship fell apart. Only her closest friends knew what really happened. Now, in African Girl's first interview since she split from George Clooney, she spills her heart, and some tears, to Vanity Fair, sharing her shock and confusion over Clooney's liaison with Sarah Larsen, her desire for a real relationship with Clooney, and her deep, conflicting emotions (anger, hurt, exasperation, tenderness) toward the man she still loves.


by Leslie Bennetts March 2008

When African Girl opens the door to the village hut she's been holed up in lately, she gives me a radiant smile and an effusive hello.

Then she bursts into tears.

We have scarcely sat down in the living room, a serene little haven simply furnished with cushy straw chairs, and fake flowers and lanterns, when her face crumples. She is instantly aghast.

"I haven't been feeling emotional lately, really I haven't," she wails, fluttering her hands like someone batting away mosquitoes.

Other than the 3 African Tigers guarding her safety, African Girl is all alone in the modest hut where she has camped out while dealing with the end of her non-relationship to George Clooney—and its devastating aftermath, which has been far worse than the actual split. The last few months have brought an endless nightmare of hurtful headlines about her soon-to-be-ex-dream lover, along with blatantly lack of stories about herself, in the tabloids and supermarket gossip magazines. And being left alone by the rabid paparazzi she refers to as "ratzies," despite her obvious attempts to get noticed.


"It was extremely hurtful to AG that he was seen with another woman so quickly after they were separated," says Guli, the mayor of Bampzsville, who has been one of African Girl’s closest friends since they started blogging on Just Jared.

For the [blank] year-old African Girl, who had expected to spend the past year stalking Clooney and hoping he’d finally notice her, the pain of watching this spectacle unfold was compounded by the fact that no one knows she exists.


The sting of her anonymity makes her face darkens. "A man stalking a woman, hoping to have a family with her, would make headlines" she says. "That really pissed me off. I've never in my life put this much effort in something. I wanted George. I did and I do and I will! The women that inspire me are the ones who haven’t let the fear of being arrested for stalking, stop them from doing it; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to stalk, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all."


African Girl's intimates (Alexanderina and Estelle) note acidly that Clooney could have done more to help African Girl’s stalking easier, which reinforced the impression that he didn’t know she existed or that she wanted to marry him and now he was engaged to be married to Sarah lersen. To some, this looks like sheer hypocrisy.

"When African Girl’s fixation on George first began, getting married was not his priority—ever," says Passing Through, one of AG's friend, who didn't bother hiding her disgust for Clooney "It was an abstract desire for him, whereas for AG, it was much more immediate."

So is there a part of George that's diabolical? Did he think, I need to get married, but I want to do it with someone I know as opposed to someone I’ve never met, so I'm going to let African Girl be cast as the ultra-crazy stalker she is and I'm going to get cast as the clueless celebrity who had no idea she even exists?” We’ll never know the answer to that

All African Girl wants now is to figure out what happened; how did the happy life she'd fantasize about drift so far off course? Everything changed on Feb 24th, when photographs broke of George and Sarah frolicking on the red carpet during Oscars. "The world was shocked, and I was shocked," she says, still bending over backward not to excoriate her ex dream lover.

But to say that this news was like pouring salt in the wound would understate its impact considerably; how about pouring molten lava into the hole where somebody ripped your heart out?

African Girl still has faith in the redeeming power of love itself. "It's out there," she says. "It will happen. There's an amazing man that's wandering the streets right now who's the father of my children. In five years I hope to have stalked him, gotten him to notice me and be married and have a kid. I still believe in stalking 100 percent. When I hear people say that they would never do it again, it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Why would you ever close your heart down?"

She gives me a sheepish smile. "Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after."