'Max Clifford denies covering up Alan Clark's underage sex scandal'
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"The former government minister Alan Clark had sex with children, according to the publicity agent Max Clifford.
"In a secretly filmed, three-minute interview posted on the internet last night, the publicist said that the Tory MP and diarist had 'interfered' with two 14-year-old girls.
"But he added, during a discussion of his success in suppressing scandals, that the story had never come out.
"Last night Mr Clifford, who was unaware his comments were being recorded, strenuously denied that he had told the girls' family to stay quiet about the allegations.
"Last night Mr Clifford, who was unaware his comments were being recorded, strenuously denied that he had told the girls' family to stay quiet about the allegations.
"At the time that he learnt of the allegations, in the 1990s, Mr Clifford did not represent Mr Clark - but he did act for the alleged victims' family, who made less serious, but more titillating, claims about the MP.
"Mr Clark, a long-serving MP and minister in Margaret Thatcher's government who died in 1999, said of those claims at the time: 'Of course I deny them. I have to deny them.'
"Mr Clark, a Tory grandee who lived at Saltwood Castle in Kent, was known to be a philanderer.
"Mr Clark, a long-serving MP and minister in Margaret Thatcher's government who died in 1999, said of those claims at the time: 'Of course I deny them. I have to deny them.'
"Mr Clark, a Tory grandee who lived at Saltwood Castle in Kent, was known to be a philanderer.
"In his diaries, he recalled encountering his wife-to-be Jane (they married when he was 30 and she 16) when she was aged 14: 'This is very exciting. She is the perfect victim, but whether or not it will be possible to succeed I can't tell at present.'
"In the video, which appears to be at least 10 years old, Mr Clifford boasted about his ability to keep embarrassing material out of the media and said he created a 'false image' for clients...."
JUSTICE DENIED: NEW SCALLYWAG ARTICLE ON MCALPINE
"In the video, which appears to be at least 10 years old, Mr Clifford boasted about his ability to keep embarrassing material out of the media and said he created a 'false image' for clients...."
JUSTICE DENIED: NEW SCALLYWAG ARTICLE ON MCALPINE