Obituary

Max Clifford: publicist, sex abuser who fed on sleaze

17 December 2017 - 00:00
By The Daily Telegraph

Max Clifford, who has died at the age of 74, was a publicist who liked to claim that he provided a "protection service" for celebrities and victims of press intrusion, but the common perception of him was of a man mired in sleaze - a judgment borne out in May 2014, when he was found guilty of sexually abusing four teenage girls and jailed for eight years.

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