1. Maxwell Frank Clifford was born in Kingston upon Thames on 6 April 1943, the son of Lilian and electrician Frank Clifford.
29 Facts About Max Clifford
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Max Clifford was the youngest of four children, with one sister and two brothers.
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Max Clifford left school at 15 with no qualifications, and he was sacked within four months of his first job at Ely's department store in Wimbledon.
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Max Clifford was approached by a brothel madame, who had provided one of Max Clifford's clients with various services, worried about publicity from an investigative reporter from the News of the World.
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Max Clifford asked the madame to reveal details of her girls and clients, and found that one prostitute, Pamella Bordes, was simultaneously dating Andrew Neil, Donald Trelford, Conservative minister for sport Colin Moynihan, and billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
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Max Clifford rang News of the World editor Patsy Chapman and drip-fed her the story of Bordes through the investigative reporter she was using on the madam.
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Max Clifford came to public attention after creating the infamous "Freddie Starr ate my hamster" headline in 1986 for The Sun in an effort to draw attention to his client, Freddie Starr.
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Clifford later represented various clients, including former Liverpool left-wing politician Derek Hatton, for whom Clifford created an affair to change his image; O J Simpson, for which reason Clifford claimed to have received death threats; Gillian McKeith, whose adverts he believed harmed her image; Rebecca Loos, when she negotiated with the press about her alleged affair with England football captain David Beckham; and Jade Goody, during the reality star's cervical cancer and death.
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Max Clifford represented a witness in the case against Gary Glitter.
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Max Clifford claimed that he was approached twice by major football clubs to help make players present a "straight" image.
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Max Clifford stated that what motivated him was much more than just money; he said he could not stand hypocrisy in public life, reserved a particular disgust for lying politicians, and watched with growing anger what he thought happened to the National Health Service over the past 20 years.
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Max Clifford invented the story which claimed Mellor made love in a Chelsea FC football kit, though he was blocked from mentioning it in his memoirs.
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Max Clifford helped to expose Jeffrey Archer's perjury in the 1980s during his candidacy for the post of Mayor of London.
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Max Clifford was accused by David Blunkett, at the beginning of November 2005, of having a role in Blunkett's second resignation.
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Max Clifford was a patron of the Royal Marsden; however, after his conviction, staff at the hospital stated he was no longer a patron.
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Also, following his 2014 conviction of indecent assault, Shooting Star CHASE and Woking and Sam Beare Hospices announced that Max Clifford was no longer a patron for either charity.
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Max Clifford was taken to a central London police station for questioning.
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On 28 May 2013, Max Clifford pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court; a hearing took place at Southwark Crown Court on 12 June 2013 when a date for his trial was set for 4 March 2014.
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On 28 April 2014, Max Clifford was convicted of eight counts of indecent assault against four victims by a jury at Southwark Crown Court.
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Max Clifford was acquitted of two charges of indecent assault, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on another charge.
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The judge concluded that Max Clifford had caused an "additional element of trauma" to his victims by his "contemptuous attitude" during the trial.
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On 3 July 2015, Max Clifford was charged with a single count of indecent assault stemming from an alleged incident from 1981.
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Max Clifford pleaded not guilty on 20 October, and was cleared by a jury of the charge on 7 July 2016.
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On 2 April 2019, Max Clifford's conviction was ultimately upheld by the Court of Appeal, which comprehensively rejected his appeal on all grounds.
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Max Clifford married Elizabeth Louise Porter at St Barnabas Church in Southfields, London, on 3 June 1967.
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In March 2010, the News of the World settled out of court after Max Clifford sought legal action against it for intercepting his voicemail.
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On 18 August 2014, Max Clifford was allowed out of HM Prison Littlehey, handcuffed to a prison officer, to attend his brother Bernard's funeral at the North East Surrey Crematorium in South West London, and this was to be his last ever public appearance, three years before his death on 10 December 2017.
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On 7 December 2017, Max Clifford collapsed in HM Prison Littlehey after trying to clean his cell.
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The inquest into Max Clifford's death heard medical evidence of his poor health leading up to his death.