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Why was an article in the Sunday Mirror about Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose debunked by the Palmer family and Palmers publicity manager Any details?
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The article was publicly debunked because Robert Palmer had never given the interview. The article was pointed out to the Palmer family and to Robert Palmer's publicity agent, Elizabeth Freund, who looked into the matter. Freund kept a log of Robert Palmer's interviews fastidiously, and noticed that no such interview was given by Palmer. The writer of the article was contacted to clarify the situation, and she informed the Palmer family's attorney that she had conducted the interview by telephone, and had provided the exact date and time the alleged telephone interview took place. As it turned out, at the time the interview was allegedly taking place, Robert Palmer was onstage recording his television special "Every Kinda People", and numerous people vouched for his whereabouts at the time. Obviously, Palmer could not have been giving a telephone interview and performing onstage at the same time, therefore the article was publicly debunked. Apparently, the article was pointed out in the first place because Mary Ambrose was not Robert Palmer's girlfriend, that was Geraldine Edwards, as stated publicly by Robert Palmer. Secondly, the article attributed preposterous quotes as being made by Robert Palmer. As Anna Palmer pointed out, the verbiage was not her father's style and it raised a red flag. Later on it was revealed that Mary Ambrose had put a "friend" up to impersonating Palmer for the interview, who was later questioned, as some people close to Robert Palmer suspected this was the case. The man, who's name was Christopher Locke, and was close to Mary Ambrose, admitted to what he had done, and said he had done it as a favor to Mary Ambrose after she had begged him to help her. He said that he regretted his actions, and did not realize that the interview would actually be published. When Ambrose was questioned about her actions, she told Anna Palmer "I know Robert loved me and I wanted the world to know! I had every right to do it!" The article was then officially debunked, but not before numerous people read it.
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Did Mary Ambrose co-write love takes time on Robert Palmers Honey as she had said I thought he wrote it with Sharon O'neill who i was a fan of?
No, she did not. According to the liner notes on Honey, "Love Takes Time" was in fact written by Robert Palmer and Sharon O'Neill. According to Mary Ambrose's brother and many other witnesses, Mary Ambrose did not even meet Robert Palmer until late 1995. Honey was released in 1994. Mary Ambrose tried to claim credit for co-writing Aeroplane on Robert Palmer's Don't Explain. That song was written by Robert Palmer alone. Robert Palmer did allow her to do some back up singing on Rhythm and Blues and Drive, but on Rythm and Blues, B.J. Nash had to go over and correct Ambrose's contributions and on Drive Tina Ann Hart had to re-do Ambrose's contributions, also. Palmer did give Ambrose credit in the liner notes for both, though. At any rate, credit should be given where credit is due. Love Takes Time was co-written by Sharon O'Neill, not Mary Ambrose.
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Did some articles that were written about Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose not actually take place I have read that they were debunked?
Yes, that is correct. Two articles written by Jane Gordon titled "Robert Palmer Was Addicted To My Love" and "The Interview", and one article written by Nick Krewn titled "A Feature on Robert Palmer" never took place, per Elizabeth Freud and Suzanne Parks. Parks was Robert Palmer's publicist from 1989 to 1998 and Freud was his publicist from 1998 to 2003. Parkes has stated that at the time that Krewen's article was allegedly being given in Canada, her client was actually in New York on a publicity junket for Honey with his wife, Susan. Parkes has conclusively stated that the interview never took place. In fact it did not even appear on the internet until ten days after Robert Palmer's death on a Web Site known as Octopus Media. Regarding the alleged Gordon interviews, at the time that the "Robert Palmer Was Addicted To My Love" interview was allegedly taking place, Robert Palmer was on stage in front of a British audience, taping a part of his "My Kinda People" special for Yorkshire Television. This was noted by Elizabeth Freud to the Sunday Mirror, and the publication cancelled the three part series, as it was originally planned. The publication also fired Jane Gordon, as well as issuing a public apology to the Palmer family. The second article that Gordon wrote titled "The Interview" was debunked for the same reason. The interview never took place, according to Freud. This alleged interview has only appeared on an overblog site, and although at the bottom of the article it says that it appeared in the Sunday Mirror, it in fact never did. Elizabeth Freud and the Palmer family have publicly dismissed these articles out of hand. Both Freud and Parkes have both publicly stated in writing that Geraldine Edwards was engaged to Robert Palmer at the time of his death and that their client and Mary Ambrose had broken-up in early 2003. There is also a blog on a MetaFilter site that reads more like an article outlining Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose's relationship that contains no factual information. Elizabeth Freud has outright said that she believes that blog was placed on Mary Ambrose's behalf by Nick Krewen, due to the writing style. Robert Palmer did not give any of these three interviews.
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Did Mary Ambrose co-write love takes time on Robert Palmers Honey as she had said I thought he wrote it with Sharon O'neill who i was a fan of?
No, she did not. According to the liner notes on Honey, "Love Takes Time" was in fact written by Robert Palmer and Sharon O'Neill. According to Mary Ambrose's brother and many other witnesses, Mary Ambrose did not even meet Robert Palmer until late 1995. Honey was released in 1994. Mary Ambrose tried to claim credit for co-writing Aeroplane on Robert Palmer's Don't Explain. That song was written by Robert Palmer alone. Robert Palmer did allow her to do some back up singing on Rhythm and Blues and Drive, but on Rythm and Blues, B.J. Nash had to go over and correct Ambrose's contributions and on Drive Tina Ann Hart had to re-do Ambrose's contributions, also. Palmer did give Ambrose credit in the liner notes for both, though. At any rate, credit should be given where credit is due. Love Takes Time was co-written by Sharon O'Neill, not Mary Ambrose.
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What is the veracity of the article published by the Sunday Express titled Did Robert Palmer have an affair with Princess Diana The info does not seem right and it is amateurish Any info on this?
Yes, there is. The article "Did Robert Palmer Have An Affair With Princess Diana" was written by Camilla Tomely in 2010 and published in the Sunday Express. It was predicated on a blog posted by Ian Halperin, a professional Canadian Blogger, who posted this rumor on his web site. No affair ever took place between Robert Palmer and Princess Diana, per his publicist from the nineties, Suzanne Parkes. The alleged affair was to have taken place in 1994. Per Parkes, Robert Palmer had asked her to try and make an arrangement for him to meet Princess Diana socially. Parkes tried, but was unable to do so, stating that invitations to events with Princess Diana in attendence were extremely difficult to get invitations to, compounded by the fact that personnel representing the Royal House had final approval over all guest lists. Robert Palmer never did get to meet Princess Diana, per Parkes statement. There was no meeting and no affair. It was just a rumor. The article in general was ridden with errors throughout. The article states that Robert Palmer was living with Mary Ambrose, a past casual girlfriend of his in 1988. In 1988, Mary Ambrose was eleven years old. In addition to that, Robert Palmer was married to Susan Eileen Thatcher, his second wife, from 1979 till 1999. Mary Ambrose's family as well as Robert Palmer's friends and family have clearly stated that Robert Palmer met Mary Ambrose socially in 1995 in San Diego, California. Palmer and Ambrose dated on an informal basis from 2000 to early 2003, per both of Robert Palmer's publicists, Suzanne Parkes and Elizabeth Freud. Ambrose's family has also corroborated that information, as well as Palmer's family. Tomily then refers to Mary Ambrose as 'Robert Palmer's second wife and widow', following that up with a statement that Mary Ambrose had to take down her Facebook Account "amid allegations." As noted earlier, Susan Eileen Thatcher was Robert Palmer's second wife. Quite obviously, Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose were never married. Both Suzanne Parkes and Elizabeth Freud have also publicly stated that Robert Palmer had ended his relationship with Mary Ambrose by early 2003, and that he was engaged to Geraldine Edwards, who he had been dating since his 1999 divorce from his second wife at the time of his death. This information was also corroborated by Ambrose's family as well as Palmer's. And according to Michael Ambrose, Mary Ambrose's brother, who was attempting to ameliorate some of the misreports about his sister, of which there were many, Mary Ambrose never had a Facebook account to take down. According to him, with no offense intended, Mary Ambrose is not computer literate, and had no original Facebook account to remove. The final line of the article is 'Mary Ambrose was unavailable for comment last night.' According to Michael Ambrose, Mary Ambrose was by then living with their mother in Coronado, California with her three children and in fact no attempt was made to contact his sister for comment to start with. The veracity of this article is poor, the information provided in the article mainly incorrect, from beginning to end. Elizabeth Freud has publicly debunked this article posthoumously on behalf of her late client, Robert Palmer.
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Why did Mary Ambrose Robert Palmers ex girlfriend tell the press that her deceased eighty-five year old Uncle Stanley Ambrose was her father and that some of her cousins were her siblings?
According to Michael Ambrose, Mary Ambrose's sole sibling, his sister used the name of her now deceased uncle, Stanley Ambrose, as her father, to impede those who were looking into her background. According to Michael Ambrose, his sister had "rewritten" her past so to speak, in an attempt to include herself in the late Robert Palmer's life for a longer period of time by altering her age to make herself appear older and to keep interested parties from finding out about some of her actions that did not represent her well, including criminal convictions, etc. Unfortunately, Mary Ambrose's plan backfired in her using her late uncles name as her father when an enterprising reporter from the London Observer made contact with Stanley Ambrose prior to his death to ask questions about his "daughter" Mary Ambrose in late 2011. According to Harvey Ambrose, another uncle of Mary Ambrose, and the brother of the late Stanley Ambrose, a reporter had somehow gotten the phone number of Stanley Ambrose and started to pepper him with questions about his "daughter" Mary Ambrose. Stanley Ambrose was baffled as to why this reporter thought his neice was his daughter and he advised the reporter of the actual facts of the situation. Stanley Ambrose told the reporter that Mary Ambrose was the daughter of his half-brother, Michael Ambrose, Sr., who was now deceased. He kindly informed the reporter that his father remarried when he was ten years old and that Michael Ambrose Sr., was born soon thereafter, reiterating that Mary Ambrose was this man's eldest child and only daughter, born in 1977. The reporter then inquired if he was close to Mary Ambrose's siblings, William, Tommy, Susan, Stanley and Christine. By this point Stanley Ambrose, who was elderly, was really confused. He told the reporter that his childrens' names were William, Tommy, Susan and Stanley, but that they were Mary Ambroses' cousins, not her siblings. He informed the reporter that Mary Ambrose only had one brother named Michael Ambrose, Jr. . The last question the reporter asked Stanley Ambrose was if Christine Ambrose, the artist, was any relation to their family. Stanley Ambrose told the reporter that to the best of his knowledge, he had no relative by the name of Christine Ambrose. At this time, the reporter thanked Stanley Ambrose for his time and told him that he was going to abandon the article he was planning on writing about Mary Ambrose. Acording to Harvey Ambrose, his brother then asked his two children who were still alive, Susan and William, what was going on. His two sons, Stanley Jr. and Tommy were deceased. They told him that they had no idea what was going on with the situation or why Mary Ambrose was telling the press she was his daughter. In realty, they were hoping that their father would never hear about Mary Ambrose referring to herself as their father's daughter as they had given Mary Ambrose their permission to attach herself to them as a sister for the edification of the press and the public. Insomuch as their father was legally blind, he never actually read any stories regarding Mary Ambrose listing him as her father. They truly believed he would never find out about the arrangement they had made with their cousin, although in the end he did find out.
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Why did a Canadian writer post an article stating that Robert Palmer was living with Mary Ambrose in 1993 and that she was the model on the cover of Honey That info is not correct What happened there?
I won't name the author of the article for legal reasons, but I know which article you are referring to. The errors in this article are many, starting with the fact that in 1993, Robert Palmer was still married to and living with Susan Palmer, his wife. They did not divorce until 1999. The model on the cover of Honey is the beautiful Anika Bengstrom of Wihlamena Models. The picture was taken in January of 1994. The author has Mary meeting Robert Palmer in 1983. According to Mary Ambrose's mother and brother, Mary was six years old in 1983. Mary Ambrose actually met Robert Palmer in late 1995. Honey was released in early 1994. According to Robert Palmer's publicist from the mid-nineties, Suzanne Parks, Robert Palmer never gave any interview to this author in 1994, only one in 1991, the result of which Palmer was not particularly fond of. He did not care for this authors writing style and failed to grant him any further interviews. In addition to the obvious factual errors, the article did not appear until ten days after Robert Palmer's death. A close friend of Mary Ambrose who had had a falling out with her told a Palmer friend that a married wealthy patron of Mary Ambrose bragged while drinking that he had paid the author to post the bogus article as a favor to Mary Ambrose, who was anxious that her name should appear in print vis-a-vis a relationship with Robert Palmer. He said that Mary Ambrose was more than grateful for this favor. And the rest, as they say is history. The article appeared, proudly pointed out by Mary Ambrose to anyone who would talk to her. Other musicians noted more holes than Swiss cheese in this man's story. Many of them knew that Geraldine Edwards was Robert Palmer's girlfriend, not Mary Ambrose. They proceeded to decline his attempts to interview them. His credibility was destroyed in these individuals perview. Finally, this author was a friend of Mary Ambrose's, she had met him at a party she had attended with Mick Carter, and he had tried to use Ambrose to get to Palmer for a second interview. They were unsuccessful in that regard. As one Palmer friend said regarding this issue, money talks.
Who took the two pictures I have seen of Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose his ex-girlfriend In both photos they are in the same shot but really don't look like they are together?
One picture, attached to an article that was legally debunked written by Jane Gordon, is of Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose taken in 1995 by a friend and future employer of Mary Ambrose. The woman who took the picture hired Mary Ambrose as her au pair the following year in 1996. Mary Ambrose is standing behind Robert Palmer in the picture, sporting short hair and holding a cocktail in one hand and food in the other. According to the woman who took the picture, Robert Palmer and his then wife, Susan Palmer, were in attendance at the party, which she and her husband were giving. They were friends with Robert Palmer. She also knew Mary Ambrose, and Ambrose requested an invitation to the party when she heard Robert Palmer was going to be there. She had met Robert Palmer previously and had a crush on him. The woman allowed her to attend the party and stated that when Robert Palmer arrived, Mary Ambrose proceeded to follow Robert Palmer around the party, resulting in the picture that she took. They definitely were not posing together, Mary Ambrose was following him in the background. She gave Mary Ambrose a copy of the photo, who proceeded to give it out to be attached to articles. The second photo of Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose was a group shot taken by Richard Coble in 1999, a production assistant who worked for Robert Palmer. In this photo, Mary Ambrose is standing in front of Robert Palmer with her arms folded. According to Rod Adamson, who was also in the photo, the picture was taken in Hong Kong, when certain members of Robert Palmer's entourage followed him out to a private airfield to see him off on his flight. According to him, Mary Ambrose was part of the group that went to Hong Kong to see Robert Palmer's show and also part of the group that went out to the airfield to see him off. There were three other people that saw Palmer off, but were not in the picture. He mentioned that Susan Palmer was not in the picture because she was already in the helicopter.
Did some articles that were written about Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose not actually take place I have read that they were debunked?
Yes, that is correct. Two articles written by Jane Gordon titled "Robert Palmer Was Addicted To My Love" and "The Interview", and one article written by Nick Krewn titled "A Feature on Robert Palmer" never took place, per Elizabeth Freud and Suzanne Parks. Parks was Robert Palmer's publicist from 1989 to 1998 and Freud was his publicist from 1998 to 2003. Parkes has stated that at the time that Krewen's article was allegedly being given in Canada, her client was actually in New York on a publicity junket for Honey with his wife, Susan. Parkes has conclusively stated that the interview never took place. In fact it did not even appear on the internet until ten days after Robert Palmer's death on a Web Site known as Octopus Media. Regarding the alleged Gordon interviews, at the time that the "Robert Palmer Was Addicted To My Love" interview was allegedly taking place, Robert Palmer was on stage in front of a British audience, taping a part of his "My Kinda People" special for Yorkshire Television. This was noted by Elizabeth Freud to the Sunday Mirror, and the publication cancelled the three part series, as it was originally planned. The publication also fired Jane Gordon, as well as issuing a public apology to the Palmer family. The second article that Gordon wrote titled "The Interview" was debunked for the same reason. The interview never took place, according to Freud. This alleged interview has only appeared on an overblog site, and although at the bottom of the article it says that it appeared in the Sunday Mirror, it in fact never did. Elizabeth Freud and the Palmer family have publicly dismissed these articles out of hand. Both Freud and Parkes have both publicly stated in writing that Geraldine Edwards was engaged to Robert Palmer at the time of his death and that their client and Mary Ambrose had broken-up in early 2003. There is also a blog on a MetaFilter site that reads more like an article outlining Robert Palmer and Mary Ambrose's relationship that contains no factual information. Elizabeth Freud has outright said that she believes that blog was placed on Mary Ambrose's behalf by Nick Krewen, due to the writing style. Robert Palmer did not give any of these three interviews.
Is the phrase free publicity a correct English if so what does it exactly mean and why dictionaries don't have a definition for it?
Yes, it is proper English. It means some way of getting yourself or your product advertised or at least talked about without paying for it. If a real newspaper article (not a false newspaper article which is written and paid for by the person wanting publicity) says that one of the persons arrested at the protest was Jack Kembemba, author of "Come to Grief", then Mr. Kembema gets publicity for his book for free. The reason things like this do not get into dictionaries is that if you know the meaning of "free" (not costing anything) and "publicity" (making yourself known) you should be able to work it out yourself. There are an infinite number of adjective+noun combinations, and the dictionary cannot list them all.
