Palmer's Lover Fights For His Fortune

I am Mary Ambrose's cousin and I thought it would be a good idea to write in to correct a few inaccuracies regarding this article and about my cousin in general. I have recently read a few articles making mention of Mary and her life and I was flabbergasted. To start with, Mary was not Robert Palmer's companion for twelve years prior to his death. Mary met Palmer in August of 1995. The entire family and I know this. The date was carved in stone in all of our memories. When Mary made Robert's acquaintance, she phoned each and every member of her family, everybody she had ever met, etc. to inform them of the auspicious meeting. She phoned me at 3:00 in the morning to tell me. That was the night that she had met Palmer. I was not the only person she knew getting woken from a sound sleep that night via phone calls from Mary. I don't exactly know what this article means by Robert Palmer removing his ex-wife Sue from the will and replacing her name with Mary's. If that is to infer that Mary was the Executrix of the Estate of Robert Palmer, then the information provided is incorrect. The Executor of the Estate was Palmer's son, James Palmer. I know this because Mary went on and on about how she felt that information could not be true. She insisted that Robert Palmer had told her that he had put her in position as the Executrix of the Estate. I don't know if he ever really told her this or not, because Mary has a laziez faire relationship with the truth when it suits her, but his will did indeed reflect that his son James was the Executor. As for the part of the article starting per a family friend that Mary might have to leave the house due to financial difficulties, that part is completely inaccurate. By the time that this article was written, Mary was no longer living at the Palmer Estate. It had been entered as part of the Estate to be sold, and was not left to Mary. Unfortunately I know this too, because Mary was legally compelled to exit the Estate so that the sale could proceed. Mary was no longer living in Switzerland by the writing of this article. To be perfectly blunt with you, the Palmer family had no use for Mary and dispensed with her as quickly as possible. After Mary sued the Estate in 2004 claiming to be the sole inheritor, she could not prove her case. There was no written documentation of any kind to support this allegation and there were no witnesses to back up her story. She did not prevail. She appealed the court's decision. The appeal was dismissed. And in 2007, she filed a third suit against the Estate. Once again, Mary's suit was decided against. She had lost for a third time. She was also advised in 2007 that her rights to further sue the Estate were extinguished. She had no further options. She received an extraordinarily small inheritance from the Estate. But even though I have known Mary all my life, I have to say that if those were the wishes of Robert Palmer, then I feel like they should have been respected as they were. Beyond these corrections, I have read articles about Mary that are fabricated entirely. I have read in several articles that Mary was Robert Palmer's companion for twenty years preceding his death. In 1983, Mary was six years old. I was raised with the woman. I am two years her senior. Mary started publicly dating Robert Palmer in 2000, although she was social with him from 1995 forwards. I remember in 1999 when Robert Palmer and Susan Palmer divorced how excited Mary was. When she started working for him and dating him, she assured me that she would be married to him by the end of the year. I did not hold my breadth. Me and the entire family knew that Robert Palmer was what Mary's mom, my Aunt Linda, used to call a bounder. Wherever there were women, you would find Robert Palmer. He was like a kid in a candy shop where it came to sex. Mary never understood this and initially thought she could change him. He never stopped dating while Mary lived in his home, but to be honest with you, he did provide her with her own private quarters, which amounted to a regular sized apartment. I know because I visited her there. Palmer had two homes by the time Mary had taken up residence with him, one in Switzerland and one in Del Mar, California. Mary eventually understood that Palmer had no intentions of marrying her and she started to date once again, as she had done prior to moving into his home. She fell in love with Robert Palmer's manager, and she had a child in 2001 with him. She asked him to divorce his wife for her, but he would not do so. She started an affair with a doctor who was a friend of Robert Palmer's who was a Swiss national, and they had a child together in 2002. He was also married though, and did not leave his wife. And Mary did date many others, most of them friends of Robert Palmers'. It always made Mary furious that Robert did not get jealous over these situations. But he was always involved with others, and even had a steady girlfriend the entire time that Mary resided with him. Another thing that was misreported about Mary was that she was thirty-six years old at the time of Palmer's death. Mary was twenty-six years old. I read one fabricated article where Mary was referring to herself in the third person as Mary Francis. Mary Francis? Try Mary Catherine, because that is Mary's middle name. This same author wrote that Robert Palmer had met Mary in San Francisco, while she was living there in a townhouse with her sisters and working as waitress in the early nineties. Sorry, but no. Mary never lived in San Francisco in the early nineties, because she was living with her family in Coronado, California and was in fact a teenager. Also, Mary only has one brother, and no sisters. Her brothers name is Michael. And, Mary met Robert Palmer at a party in Coronado, to be exact. There was a room full of witnesses to vouch for this, as well as her friends and family. In the same fabricated article Mary is quoted as saying that she likes being Auntie Mary to her may nieces and nephews. Mary had no nieces or nephews at the time. Her brother eventually married and had two children, but he had no children at the time. Michael is now raising Mary's three children. She had a third child, my niece, in 2008. The rumor that Mary had died was false, but as I understood it was started by those that were close to Mary, so their testimony was considered credible by many people. They later said they had their reasons for doing this, but in my book there is no reason to do any such thing. Also, the same writer that stated so many untruths about Mary also said that she was born and raised in Ohio. Mary was born and raised in San Diego, California. I then read articles saying that Mary was in Paris, France with Robert Palmer when he died, vacationing with him. Absolutely not. Mary called me and her brother from Lugano, Switzerland, to tell us that Robert had died. By that time, their relationship had grown rocky and Mary was seeking new employment. She was no longer dating Robert by then, and was honestly distraught over the situation, but Palmer had definitely ended their personal relationship before he died. When I started seeing articles saying she was Robert's long time companion and so forth, I asked her what was going on. That was never how the family had seen the situation. They and myself had just viewed Robert Palmer as one of the men that Mary was dating, but we never saw it as exclusive. I pointed out to her that she was not even dating Robert before he died, and she denied saying that. She told me he was always the only one, and that she dated no others once they got together. I then asked her how she could have had two children while living with him if she had not been dating others. She became furious and hung up on me. It is a matter of public record that Robert Palmer had a vasectomy in 1982, so the children were not Palmer's. She even named the fathers to her family, and I met her first son's father personally. I know a lot of people will think that I am a jerk for writing this, but under the circumstances, me and Michael thought it was time to clear the record and put out the correct information. The fabricated articles created to favor Mary did not help her move-on with her life. She kept thinking that her connection to Robert Palmer was going to make her wealthy and to that end she tried plot after plot, trying to trade on Palmer's name. It did not work. Her attempt to use her Robert Palmer connection actually got her into trouble, rather than helping her. She just could not accept that life was going to be normal after Robert Palmer's death, and that she was going to have to get a real job to support herself and her children. Her mother even left her her house in Coronado when she passed away, because she knew that Mary was incapable of supporting herself and her children. She wanted her grandchildren to have a nice place to live. Mary lost the house to bad investments. Mary's father, my Uncle Mike, had passed away in 2008. All Mary's family can hope for now is that Mary gets back on track and into the real world. She does have her children to think about, and at thirity-four years of age it is about time that she grows-up.