Max Clifford net worth
Max Clifford Net Worth: Max Clifford is a UK publicist who has a net worth of $10 million. He is considered to be one of the most prominent publicists in the UK and has been involved in his scandals over the years. Throughout his career, he represented a range of clients and became a controversial figure, known for representing unpopular clients and people looking to sell stories to the tabloids.
He was born in Kingston in 1943, the youngest of four children from a poor family. He left school at 15 without any qualifications and eventually found a job as an editorial assistant for Eagle Comics. When the publication relocated, Clifford used the money from his redundancies to buy his first house and found a job at the South London Press, where he trained as a journalist. After a few years in the newspaper industry, he joined EMI’s press office and in 1970 established his own agency, Max Clifford Associates. At the time, he represented Sinatra, Cocker, Paul and Barry Ryan, Don Partridge and Marvin Gaye, and later Muhammad Ali and Marlon Brando. In addition to working for well-known celebrities, he is also known for his involvement in scandals. He leaked several stories shared with him by brothel owner Pamela Borders, who had several senior politicians and newspaper editors using her services. He also stirred controversy among many political candidates in the 1980s and 1990s. Clifford claims to have represented several professional footballers who wished to conceal their sexuality, saying he helped them present a “straight” image. Clifford married Elizabeth Porter in 1967, who tragically died of lung cancer in 2003; the couple have a daughter named Louise. In 2010, he married his ex-PA Joe Westwood, and the couple remains married to this day. In 2014, Clifford, 71, was jailed for eight years for a string of sex offences, including eight indecent assaults of four victims aged 15 to 19 between 1978 and 1984.
It was discovered during his trial that he was carrying a small brown book full of damaging allegations against celebrities, which he used as insurance in the 1980s and 1990s.
