Max Clifford’s daughter Louise dies after cancer battle
Louise Clifford, the daughter of late PR guru Max, has passed away aged 51 following a short battle with cancer.
The PR firm co-founder died ‘peacefully’ at home on Tuesday surrounded by family.
Louise was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when she was just seven years old, and the condition resulted in her spending much of her life in a wheelchair.
Author and Louise’s friend Russ Kane announced the news on Twitter on May 3, Tweeting: ‘RIP my lovely friend Louise Clifford.
‘Despite endless awful illnesses and countless major operations, being often confined to a wheelchair, she never once complained.
‘We would laugh, joke and take the p*** out of the world.
‘She was an inspiration through her courage and resilience.’
Business partner and friend Denise Davies also paid tribute to Louise on Instagram, and wrote: ‘What a huge part of my life you have been. Always there with sound, calm advice.
‘A cheeky and naughty sense of humour and my guiding light.’
Disgraced PR guru Max Clifford died in prison aged 74 in December 2017 while serving an eight-year sentence for indecent assault.
Louise has said that her dad’s ‘dying months lacked humanity and dignity’.
Ms Clifford said her father first mentioned ‘feeling tight-chested and unable to take a deep breath’ five months before his death.
‘I could see him getting more and more frail,’ Ms Clifford said in a statement read to the coroner in Peterborough
‘He would complain to me daily about the ice-cold showers and cold cell and what a shock to the system it was each time.’
Following his death, Louise continued her father’s legal appeal in a bid to posthumously clear her his name.
‘I was desperate for him to have his day in court and chance to clear his name,’ she said.
But the Court of Appeal dismissed her case in 2019, with the judge saying: ‘Nothing we heard came anywhere near imperilling the safety of his convictions.’
Louise was born in June 1971 in Wimbledon, south west London, and would have turned 52 next month.
She the daughter of Max and his first wife, Liz Porter, who he met at a dance in Croydon in 1963, marrying in June 1967. Liz died lung cancer in 2003.
Weeks before her 16th birthday, she had her knees replaced and regular operations interrupted her education.
Speaking about her illness, Louise previously said: ‘I don’t really have many bad moments where I feel I’m missing out on things.
‘I’m really a positive person, that’s my nature.’
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