Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has been named this year's "sexiest woman alive" by Esquire magazine.<br/> <br />The 40-year-old follows last year's winner, American actress Scarlett Johansson, to earn the honor chosen by editors of the men's lifestyle magazine.<br/> <br />Cruz, along with husband Javier Bardem, will star in the upcoming Spanish-language drama "Ma Ma," and is currently in production on the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy "Grimsby."<br/> <br />Cruz and Bardem, 45, have two young children together.<br/> <br />Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, fresh from her marriage to Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney, arrived in Athens to advise the Greek government in its battle for the return of ancient statues from the British Museum in London.<br/> <br />In February, Clooney, during a press conference to promote his film "Monuments Men", whose subject matter is the return of art stolen by the Nazis, publicly backed the return of the statues after a question from a Greek reporter.<br/> <br />Amal Alamuddin
