UPDATE: The rumor that Geoge Clooney is dating the 26-year-old niece of assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is false, according to the actor’s publicist Stan Rosenfield.

Rosenfield e-mailed wowOwow saying "The story is not true," as rumors continue to grow that the striking actor has been cuddling up with Fatima Bhutto, and it sounds like she’s taming famous playboy Cooney.

"He’s still out there with his usual assortment of Hollywood eye candy hanging from his arm. But George insists those days could be coming to an end if Fatima wants to take their relationship to the next level and spend some serious time with him in the U.S.," a source told National Enquirer (the same publication that blew the lid on OJ Simpson and John Edwards). 

Fatima Bhutto, a passionate feminist writer and journalist, graduated with a degree in Middle Eastern studies from Barnard and received a masters in South Asian studies from University of London. She was recently in the news as she is expected to contest — from her late aunt’s seat — in the next general elections. Bhutto’s father, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, was an elected member of Pakistan’s parliament and was assassinated by state police in 1996. His sister, Benazir, was Prime Minister at the time of his killing. Young Bhutto is the author of two books: a volume of poetry published when she was 15 years old in her father’s memory, Whispers of the Desert, and a collection of firsthand survivor’s accounts from the October 8, 2005, earthquake in Pakistan entitled 8:50 AM. She published a piece today for the Daily Beast about the shocking case of a Pakistani rape victim and an unjust Parliament pushing to silence the incident.

The 47-year-old actor and the aspiring politician reportedly met at an international conference last year … but if Clooney’s publicist is denying this, we thought they made a great couple.