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Max Clifford

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Max Clifford was born on April 6, 1943 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for When Will I Be Famous (2007), Heaven Knows (1997) and The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon (2016). He was married to Jo Westwood and Liz Clifford. He died on December 10, 2017 in Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

He worked as a publicist to the stars. His clients included Simon Cowell, Jade Goody and Freddie Starr.
Revealed in April 2008 that he is being treated for prostate cancer after being diagnosed in late 2007.
Was responsible for The Sun's famous (but untrue) headline "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" in 1986. He also invented the story that David Mellor made love to his mistress in a Chelsea strip, which became another Sun headline in 1992.
He had a daughter, Louise Clifford, with his first wife Liz Clifford.
Arrested in December 2012 for historical sex offences under Operation Yewtree, was found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault in April 2014 and sentenced to eight years in prison. He died while serving his sentence.

I'd hate to have a real job after all these years.
"Today, image is everything. Reality seldom comes into it." (Speaking in 2006)
It's a very sad state of affairs. But it's a fact that homophobia in football is as strong now as it was 10 years ago. If you'd asked me in 2000 whether I thought we'd have a famous, openly gay footballer by 2010 I would have said yes. You look across society and see openly gay people in music, movies, television, politics, the clergy, and it's not a problem, nor in many sports. It's not that footballers are homophobic but the fans can be vicious. I've had two high-profile Premier League football clients in the past five years who've been gay or bisexual and my advice has been not to make that public. For a top player to come out, I would envisage they'd be a hard man, with an established reputation, and perhaps a year or two at most left in the game, so if coming out brought too much hardship, it wouldn't matter so much professionally.
[Chat show, called out] I didn't say that, but if you want to say that I did then good luck to you.
Oh, no-one would do that, would they? "You're a famous Footballer, you're a Pretty Pop Star, why not get together?"

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