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How did the rumor get started that Mary Ambrose the woman who sued the Estate of Robert Palmer was the sister of Christine Ambrose?
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∙ 13y ago
I am a friend of Mary Ambrose's brother, Michael. Mary Ambrose was born on June 9, 1977 in San Diego, California. She was raised in San Diego, California as well. I have read articles that state that Mary Ambrose was born in Ohio, but they don't specify the city. I don't know where they might have gotten their information, but it is not correct. In the same articles they state that Mary had five siblings. That information is not correct. Michael is Mary Ambrose's only sibling. Both Mary and Michael were born in San Diego. Their late father was a local weatherman and sometimes disk jockey who moved to San Diego in 1973.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe rumor got started by a Metafilter blog site, where the author of the blog connected Mary Ambrose to the artist, Christine Ambrose, as her sister. The blogger alleged that he had worked with Christine Ambrose, which is possible, at a restaurant in San Francisco, and that Christine Ambrose invited her sister, Mary Ambrose, out from Ohio to live with her in San Francisco, when Mary Ambrose was seventeen years old. In this same long and windy blog, this man states that Mary Ambrose met Robert Palmer in the early nineties, that Robert Palmer "fell in love" with Mary Ambrose within two days of meeting her, and invited her to move to Switzerland to live with him within forty-eight hours of meeting her. He also refers to Mary Ambrose as Robert Palmer's wife, and of course, Mary Ambrose and Robert Palmer were never married. This blogger, who identified himself as "Diggman" created a romantic story that perhaps he believed in his own mind, but was not factual. Christine Ambrose is not related to Mary Ambrose, and has in fact never met her. She has asked people to stop inquiring about Mary Ambrose on her website, which is devoted to her artwork. In addition, Robert Palmer was married to Susan Palmer in the early nineties, and was in no position to ask a girlfriend to move in with him. Mary Ambrose has one brother by the name of Michael Ambrose, period. And finally, Mary Ambrose never lived in San Francisco working as a waitress, and in fact met Robert Palmer in late 1995 at a social event, when she was eighteen years old, not in the early nineties.
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Where was Mary Ambrose the woman who sued the Estate of Robert Palmer born?
Mary Catherine Ambrose was born in San Diego, California, in 1977.
Is Mary ambrose the former housekeeper of Robert palmer dead?
Mary Ambrose was Robert Palmer's girlfriend and partner for 15 years. She is not dead
Is it true that Mary Ambrose Robert Palmers Estate Manager and sometimes date tried to sell a story to the tabloids stating that she and Robert Palmer had gotten secretly married in 1996?
Mary Ambrose was twenty-six years old at the time of Robert Palmers death, according to her late mother, Linda Ambrose. According to Mary Ambrose's brother Michael, she was born on June 9, 1977. For reasons that nobody could ascertain, Mary Ambrose herself and Mick Carter started announcing her age as thrity-six years old at the time of Robert Palmers death and that information got into print. Unfortunately for Mary Ambrose, people who did actually know her reported her correct age, ending the charade that she was a decade older.
How did Mary Ambroses name get attached to the singer Robert Palmers obituaries when I heard Robert Palmer announce Geraldine Edwards as his girlfriend on Access Hollywood shortly before his death?
According to Robert Palmer himself in interviews, his close friends, and his family members, Geraldine Edwards was his girlfriend at the time of his death. She had been his girlfriend since Palmer's divorce from Susan in 1999. Mary Ambrose was a woman who casually dated Robert Palmer from 2000 to 2003 and who worked for Palmer as his Estate Manager and his Personal Assistant for that same period of years. According to Peter Bascombe, a close Palmer friend, as well as others that knew Palmer, Mary Ambrose was definintely not considered Robert Palmer's girlfriend. Mary Ambrose even had two children from friends and acquaintances of Robert Palmer while employed by him and dating him. One Palmer friend, Leo Stapleton, who also worked with Palmer professionally, stated publicly that Palmer referred to Mary Ambrose as "the arrangement" because she was simply there, not unlike Mt. Everest. He did not consider her his primary relationship. Palmer had met Mary Ambrose socially in 1995 at a party in San Diego, California. How her name came to be attached to the obituaries was because Robert Palmer's manager, Mick Carter, announced Mary Ambroses' name to the press as Robert Palmer's girlfriend in error. The press then reported Ambroses' name upon Carter's word. Carter was very fond of Mary Ambrose and in fact had a child with her in 2001. His excuse to one one Palmer friend, Joey Faahar, was "I felt that I should do it for Mary. She loved him so much. And she did live with him." When Faahar pointed out that she lived with him as his Estate Manager and Personal Assistant, Carter replied "That doesn't matter. She was living there." Shortly thereafter, Carter was legally enjoined from announcing Mary Ambrose as Robert Palmer's girlfriend, but he had caused a tremendous amount of upset and confusion in the meanwhile.
Why did Mary Ambrose a former date of Robert Palmers have three interviews manufactured having Robert Palmer discussing her It was proven that they had never taken place. What was her reason for this?
The three articles were that were legally debunked, which means they can't be used in any legal or citing capacity, were "Robert Palmer was Addicted to my Love", "The Interview" and "A Feature on Robert Palmer." They were written by Nick Krewen and Jane Gordon. Also, these articles may not be reprinted in any legal capacity. The best guest as to why Mary Ambrose had these articles created, according to those that knew the late Robert Palmer, was so that she would be able to present them in a court of law as proof of her relationship with the late Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer had ended his relationship with Mary Ambrose by early 2003 and she was fully aware that she was not going to inherit from the Estate of Robert Palmer, therefore the articles were fabricated as evidence for the court to consider. In the discovery phase of the matter of "Mary Catherine Ambrose v. The Estate of Robert Palmer" probate matter, Mary Ambrose attempted to submit the articles. The court failed to accept the articles into consideration being made aware of their debunked status. Both writers of the three articles were known to Mary Ambrose, prior to Robert Palmer's death. Her reason for doing this was, quite simply, for financial gain. Stranger things have happened in the pursuit of wealth.
Where did Mary Ambrose the woman who sued the Estate of Robert Palmer meet Robert Palmer?
At a party
How did a Blogger on a Metafilter site come up with so much bogus information regarding Robert Palmer and his sometimes girlfriend and Estate Manager Mary Ambrose?
The blogger simply became overexcited when he saw the name Mary Ambrose written in conjunction with Robert Palmer's name. The story behind the story is that the blogger worked with the wonderful artist, Christine Ambrose, at the Hayes Street Grille in San Francisco in the early nineties. Christine Ambrose was working there at the time as a waitress and the blogger was a waiter there. Christine Ambrose, who does in fact have a large family hailing from Ohio, brought her younger sister out from Ohio to stay with her for awhile. The sister, who's name is Maria, ended up staying permanently. Her sister arranged a job for her at the Grille as a busperson. Later Maria was promoted to waitress. She eventually returned to Ohio and married. For reasons that nobody can fathom, the blogger decided that Maria was Mary Ambrose and somehow remembered being privy to the inception of a relationship that Robert Palmer never had with Maria Ambrose. Maria Ambrose and Mary Ambrose are two complete separate people. Most people, including Christine Ambrose, surmised that this blogger just wanted his fifteen minutes of fame and capitalized on the death of Robert Palmer to do so. Christine Ambrose, nor any other member of her family had ever met Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer initially met Mary Ambrose at a party in Coronado, California in 1995. He definitely did not meet her while she was waiting tables in the early nineties, as was written in error on more than one occasion.
Where was Mary Ambrose the woman who sued the Estate of Robert Palmer born?
Mary Catherine Ambrose was born in San Diego, California, in 1977.
Did Mary Ambrose Robert Palmers former girlfriend inherit his mansion in Lugano Switzerland I have read comments by his grown children that the Estate was sold?
No, Mary Ambrose did not inherit his manison in Lugano, Switzerland. It was sold as part of the Estate of Robert Palmer. The mansion was sold by Soteby's European Real Estate Division in early 2004 at the behest of James Palmer, the Executor of the Estate of Robert Palmer. According to James Palmer, the proceeds of the sale were distributed equally among Robert Palmer's five children.
Did Mary Ambrose get any settlement from Robert Palmer's estate?
Mary Ambrose did receive a small inheritance from The Estate of Robert Palmer. It was under $20,000.00. She did try to contest the will in French Courts on the grounds that the will was tampered with. The court did not have enough evidence to to proceed with the case and dismissed the case as "without merit."
What is Robert palmer's girlfriend Mary Ambrose doing now?
After the death of Robert Palmer, Mary Ambrose sued the Estate of Robert Palmer but did not prevail. Robert Palmer did die testate and although his Last Will and Testament was challenged by Ambrose, the Will eventually stood as written. Ambrose's final suit was brought in 2007, when her legal options were extinguised. Ambrose's luck did not hold after Robert Palmer's death and she is now serving time on a prison sentence for a 2011 conviction on a white collar crime. This is not her first time behind bars, she has also served time in 1997 and 2005. Most recently, Mary Ambrose has put up social networking sites alleging that she is living in Ticino, Switzerland residing in the home that she and Robert Palmer shared. Although Mary Ambrose resided with Robert Palmer as his estate manager and personal assistant, Robert Palmer was engaged to Geraldine Edwards at the time of his death, although he did date Ambrose prior to that. Also, the house was sold as part of the estate once it entered probate and was sold by Soteby's European/Swiss Real Estate Division in 2004, it's proceeds divided among the five Palmer children as were the wishes of the late Robert Palmer. Ambrose has most recently been living in Southern California according to members of her family prior to her incarceration. She will be elegible for parole in 2012, and more than likely will be released back into the community to spend the remainder of her sentence on parole. In 2011, Ambrose's parential rights were extingused by the State of California to her three children, born in 2001, 2002 and 2008 due to her competance as a parent. The children are now being reared by a relative of Ambrose's. None of the children belonged to Robert Palmer. Although Mary Ambrose has had her problems in the past, two of her cousins have backed her up on her most recent Web site, by the name of Susan and William. Although Ambrose has tried to present them as her sister and brother, they are in fact her cousins. William went so far as to claim that he is residing at the Palmer Estate with Mary Ambrose alleging still that Mary Ambrose did inherit the house. The house was in fact sold to a European Corporation in 2004. According to Mary Ambrose's uncle, Harvey Ambrose, his niece will not return to Southern California when she has completed serving her sentence. Ambrose has advised him that she will relocate to New York.
How was Mary Ambrose case vs estate of Robert Palmer resolved?
Robert Palmer did die testate. His Last Will and Testament was lodged with the Bahamian courts. Robert Palmer did alter his Will, after his divorce in addition to adding a codicil to the document at that time. Robert had two grown children from his marriage Susan Palmer. The majority of his Estate, including his mansion in Lugano, did go to his children.
Is Mary ambrose the former housekeeper of Robert palmer dead?
Mary Ambrose was Robert Palmer's girlfriend and partner for 15 years. She is not dead
Is it true that Mary Ambrose Robert Palmers Estate Manager and sometimes date tried to sell a story to the tabloids stating that she and Robert Palmer had gotten secretly married in 1996?
Mary Ambrose was twenty-six years old at the time of Robert Palmers death, according to her late mother, Linda Ambrose. According to Mary Ambrose's brother Michael, she was born on June 9, 1977. For reasons that nobody could ascertain, Mary Ambrose herself and Mick Carter started announcing her age as thrity-six years old at the time of Robert Palmers death and that information got into print. Unfortunately for Mary Ambrose, people who did actually know her reported her correct age, ending the charade that she was a decade older.
Did Mary Ambrose the woman who unsuccessfully sued the Estate of Robert Palmer file a third case through the Hauge Convention?
Yes she did. In fact the case brought by Mary Ambrose was the first matter tried by the Hauge Convention, established in 2007, giving the matter some importance. The Hauge Convention is an International Law Tribunal that allows any citizen of a country attached to the United Nations to appeal a final court decision and officially re-open the matter. In the matter of "Mary Ambrose v. The Paris, France Probate Court" the grounds were that it was illegal for the Paris, France Court to assign a Third Party Administrator (Mark Palmer) to the Estate of Robert Palmer in 2004. The second issue was questioning the legality of James Palmer, the Executor of the Estate of Robert Palmer, to be named as the Sole Trustee of the Estate. If the Hauge Convention had decided in Mary Ambrose's favour, she would have had an opportunity to, once again, sue the Estate of Robert Palmer, for a third time. In short, Mary Ambrose's legal counsel were looking for the proverbial loophole. The Hauge Convention found as follows: the Appointment of Mark Palmer, Robert Palmer's brother, as the Third Party Administrator (at the request of James Palmer) was legal, as well as the naming of James Palmer as the Sole Trustee of the Estate of Robert Palmer. This was Mary Ambrose's final appeal (Sept. 19, 2007) and thus Mary Ambrose has no further legal recourse in suing the Estate of Robert Palmer. Her final settlement remained $16,000.00. This figure was made public by the International Court. The matter was filed through the Ticino Court System as that was Robert Palmer's last legal address in his lifetime, Lake Lugano, Ticino-Regano, Switzerland, and that is the policy of the Hauge Convention. In a probate case, the matter must be filed with the Court that is attached to the Decedant's last known legal address as it holds the strongest jurisdiction.
Was Mary Ambrose the woman who sued the Estate of Robert Palmer featured in any of his video performances of Addicted to Love?
The answer is no, per EMI Records and Elizabeth Freund, the late Robert Palmer's publicist. Mary Ambrose did not appear in any videotaped performances of Addicted to Love. In fact, Mary Ambrose did not appear in any Robert Palmer videos at all. I am not trying to be rude, but Mary Ambrose was neither a model or a dancer. In pictures that I have seen of her, no offense, she is heavy set and not suited to either modeling or dancing. Mary Ambrose did contribute some backing vocals on Drive as well as backing vocals on Rhythm and Blues. It was known that Mary Ambrose was interested in entering the music business and Robert Palmer was kind enough to give her some experience in this range.
Did Mary Ambrose inherit Robert Palmers mansion in Switzerland and what is she up to these days?
No she didn't. The mansion became part of the Estate of Robert Palmer when the will was probated. It was put on the market by James Palmer, the Executor of the Estate of Robert Palmer in late 2003. Sotoby's European Swiss Real Estate Division sold the mansion in early 2004. Mary Ambrose did not do very well after Robert Palmer died and she did not inherit in any significant way from his estate. Her total inheritance was $16,000.00. She is now incarcerated in a federal penitentiary on an investment fraud conviction but is elegable for parole in 2012. Unfortunatley, this is her third stay behind bars. She served time in 1997 in a county jail for pandering, and in 2005 she served time in a federal penitentiary for Extortion. Her three children are now being raised by her brother, Michael Ambrose, Jr., in the State of New York.
