2006-07-19 17:23:23 · 8 answers · asked by snowy dragon 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Rory Emerald is a great hoaxter extraordinaire. He is extremely famous, and is good friends with Jodie Foster, Cher, and Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Here is an article on him.
ANAHEIM – For a man who spent his summer building a national reputation as a full-time slinger of bull, Rory Emerald is perversely honest.
For example, Emerald, 38, will tell you straight up that his name is fabricated. He was born Julian Lee Hobbs, but changed it to a combination of "Rory," the first name of a dead guy he once knew, and "Emerald," a nickname he went by when he was a younger man and, he swears, his eyes were "greener."
He'll also own up to a few stints in jail, for passing dubious checks and driving a car he didn't, per se, own.
As he sits in his cluttered Anaheim apartment, smoking and fidgeting and smoking some more, he'll even admit that, no, he wasn't really Mia Farrow's personal shopper in 1993 or, frankly, ever. This contradicts what he told police that year. Likewise, Emerald now says he was "flat out lying" back in 1990, when he convinced the Associated Press, among others, that he was Elizabeth Taylor's new boy toy.
That particular fiction got Emerald's name on the cover of Star magazine. If you missed it, he'll pull the copy from a file he keeps, and put it in your lap.
But all this honesty just confuses the issue.
Emerald describes himself as a fabricator, a man whose tether to the truth, if not reality itself, is frayed to the point of breaking.
"Hoaxter extraordinaire," Emerald says of his current occupation.
"There are only a few of us out there," he adds, quietly, as if speaking of some mythical hoaxters union.
"We don't communicate much."
Which may or may not be true.
Found but not lost
What is true - what even Emerald himself can't confuse - is that Emerald's inner baloney peddler is on a roll.
Since June, he's published ads in the "found items" area of the classified section in more than a dozen newspapers around the country, claiming to have found various things.
Each found item has been interesting, and many were found in amusing places. Most sparked phone calls to Emerald's apartment. A few generated stories in the local press.
Like many great liars, he starts with a glaze of truth.
He reads up on the towns or cities in which he's placing ads. That way, he says, the places he mentions and the terms he uses are familiar to local readers.
But every item found, every incident described, is fiction. Every word Emerald prints is a flat-out, in-your-face lie.
Still, alleged experts have been fooled.
"It seemed unusual, but not impossible," says Ryan Menard, a reporter with the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., which published two stories after Emerald ran an ad claiming to find a Hasty Pudding pot, an award given annually by a Harvard University club to somebody in show business.
The first story in the Quincy paper was a front-page call to whatever celeb might have lost the award. The follow-up ran a day later, also on A-1, informing readers that it was a hoax.
"When we found out (the truth), it was pretty frustrating," Menard says.
In North Dakota, Emerald claimed to have found an Elvis tour bus ("w/many personal items still inside") behind a ranch house. In San Diego, he found a baby panda ("desperately needs mother") near the zoo.
A SpongeBob SquarePants ice sculpture turned up in a walk-in freezer in Waco, Texas. A few lost Warhol paintings emerged in Buffalo. A kitten with two heads was found in San Francisco; a cat with three eyes in Baltimore.
And, of course, there was the ad that Emerald describes as his "masterpiece" - a prosthetic nose supposedly found in a park near Santa Barbara.
That ran in June, when the Michael Jackson trial was intergalactic news. And it ran near Neverland, Jackson's famously infamous ranch.
Emerald sighs when discussing the aftermath of that ad.
"So many people called. Just ... so many."
Most, he says, laughed. Some cursed. A few laughed andcursed. And many wanted to chat.
"I loved that," Emerald says.
"I felt like there was something profound in what was happening.
"That one, the Michael Jackson ad," he adds, looking directly into a visitor's eyes, "that's the one that got me started on all this."
Trying to fool O.C.
Except, of course, that's a lie.
About 15 months ago, a full year before he claimed to have found anything in Santa Barbara, Emerald ran an ad in this newspaper claiming to have found a time capsule in San Clemente. A month after that, he ran another ad in this newspaper claiming to find a baby giraffe in Coto de Caza.
"I got a call from a Fish and Game person," he says. "She said if I have a giraffe, it needs to be placed in a place where it can be cared for."
And back in 1991, when Emerald was still getting work as an extra in TV shows and movies, somebody placed very expensive, full-page ads in newspapers in Florida and Washington that ran just one line:
"Who is Rory Emerald?"
Good question.
"I'm an artist," he says. "I sell my art. It's how I make money."
He pulls out some of that art. It's tiny and cluttered.
"I also do tarot readings, but only part time," he says.
"You know, that just takes a lot out of me. You have to give so much of yourself."
He's not talking about the old, full-page ads, which probably ran up more than $50,000 in unpaid bills.
He's also not inclined to say if his current spate of fake ads generates any revenue stream. None have mentioned money and Emerald says he hasn't asked anybody for anything.
As the interview ends, Emerald walks down the steps of his apartment and into blistering heat. As he stands, sweating slightly, he swears this reporter to confidence about his next set of ads.
"I know you won't tell," he says finally.
"You're honest."
He's right. He's planning to say he's found some of Einstein's lost papers.
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is heir apparent to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms. He has held the title of Prince of Wales since 1958 and is styled HRH The Prince of Wales, except in Scotland where he is styled HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay. Constitutionally he is the first in line to the throne, but third in order of precedence, following both The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh.
The Prince of Wales is well known for his extensive charity work, particularly for the Prince's Trust. He also carries out a full schedule of royal duties and increasingly is taking on more royal roles from his aging parents. The Prince is also well known for his high-profile marriages to the late Lady Diana Spencer and subsequently to Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall.
2006-07-19 19:10:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prince Charles is the son of England's Queen Elizabeth. He is famous because is the first heir to the British throne (which means, when his mother dies, he'll become king).
He's also extremely famous because he was married to Diana, Princess of Wales. The two married in 1981 and had two children, William and Harry. Diana was not a duchess before she married Charles, she was however a "lady", which means she was a member of the British Aristocracy.
He received a lot of flack during their marriage because of his world famous affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
In 1996, Diana and Charles divorced and a year later she died in a car accident (DUH!).
In 2005, Camilla and Charles finally married after years of hiding their relationship from people.
Despite his powerful position, lots of people in Britain take his actions and feel that he should not be the next monarch (as monarch of England he would be the head of the church of England) Many feel that the head of the Church of England should not be a divorcee.
2006-07-19 18:53:13 · answer #2 · answered by Holly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you seriously asking who Prince Charles is? DO YOU LIVE IN A CLOSET? Prince Charles is Queen Elizabeth of Englands son. He married Princess Diana who was a Duchess before he married her.
PS Judging by your questions, you're obsessed with Rory Emerald.
2006-07-19 17:27:46 · answer #3 · answered by E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prince Charles is the son of Queen Elizabeth and the heir apparent to the throne of England. At one point, Prince Charles was married to Princess Diana (Diana Spencer). Rory Emerald is the world famous mime, movie director, actor, singer and Depends Spokesman. In 1980, he was an acquaintance of the big-eared royal family member. They met at an elegant family dinner in 1979. Emerald was in London, and was invited by Elton John and Dustin Hoffman to a royal dinner, where Elton John was to perform, ironically, the song "Candle in the wind". As they sat at the family dinner, Prince Charles asked the dashing young actor, Rory Emerald to “pass the salt” in his inflection that was hard to understand. Emerald could not quite fathom what Charles was asking, so the request was repeated. Rory Emerald looked at Charles and said “Pardon me, dumbo” with an phony elegant British accent. You could have heard a pin drop. Total silence. Then Charles started to giggle, and the whole table was in hysterics. Charles was immediately smitten with the American actor, and asked him if they could have “a quick go” before tea. Emerald and Charles went up to his private quarters, arm in arm.
The affair lasted several months, and it took a horrible misunderstanding to end it. It appears that Emerald was caught in a rather compromising position with both Vanessa and Victoria, two of Prince Charles’ most beloved prize corgi dogs. This ended the affair in an abrupt manner. Later, Emerald did admit that Vanessa and Victoria were far more passionate then Prince Charles, and much better conversationalists.
2006-07-20 08:13:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prince Charles, he eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II, Charles was made Prince of Wales in 1958 and is the heir to the British throne.
In 1981 married Lady Diana Spencer in one of the century's grandest royal weddings.
Rory Emerald, a well known hoaxster.
2006-07-20 13:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by mom2all 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are referriung to the Ptince Charles of England. Though due to his divorce to Di , I suspect the throne will be passed to Prince William.
2006-07-20 03:23:07 · answer #6 · answered by barearl@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
prince charles was married to princess diana.. i think.. and somehow there marrriage is against some law.. of some sort ... =D
2006-07-19 17:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by kid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR ASKING WHO PRINCE CHARLES IS!
2006-07-19 19:30:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋