Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney will host a $6 million fundraising dinner for Barack Obama at his Los Angeles home as the president fills his campaign coffers to battle Mitt Romney. 

The event, on May 10, will include in the "Dinner with Barack" campaign that the president's political braintrust dreamed up to drum up little donations and fire up grassroots supporters. 

Obama fans are invited to go into the contest and give as little as $3 dollars on a webpage titled "Obama, Clooney and You" featuring photos of the Oscar winning star and the president. 
Fortunate winners earn a spot at the dinner. 
"George Clooney is doing his part to help re-elect the president, but he knows that it's grassroots advocates like you who will decide this election," the website reads.

"That's why he'd like you to invite you to give for an opportunity to be part of this event." 
A campaign official recounted the A-list dinner, certain to be the most star-studded night of the Obama campaign so far, was anticipated to draw 150 fans paying a cool $40,000 each for a ticket. 
Obama and Clooney last met in March when the star of "Oceans 11" and "The Descendants" made a trip to the White House to brief the president on a secret visit he had made to war-torn Sudan. 
Clooney also attended a state dinner for English PM David Cameron. 

The president occasionally visits California, particularly Hollywood and Silicon Valley, where there is a robust base of committed, famous and loaded supporters to help him raise millions of bucks ahead of November's election. 
Exclusive events for the wealthy, like the one at Clooney's house, are often paired with cheaper, larger and more open fundraisers with less well-heeled supporters who get fired up by Obama's campaign speech. 
Obama, who is rebuilding his countrywide political machine to battle the all-but-certain Republican nominee Mitt Romney, related Monday he had raised $53 million for his reelection effort in March. 

He's now taken in over $200 million for his campaign and up until the end of February, he spent $75 million, much of it on his new grassroots substructure. 
Obama will be trying to beat his total of $745 million in the 2008 election, which also included the long and expensive Democratic first struggle against his then foe and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.