mary ambrose was not robert palmer's girlfriend at the time of his death although they had been involved in a casual relationship however during the time period that mary ambrose was involved with robert palmer she was involved with a number of men even having two children in and with men known to robert palmer mary ambrose's son born in was fathered by mick carter who was robert palmer's manager until palmer fired him in the second week of september unfortunately since mick carter was the first person to discover that robert palmer had died he took the opportunity to lie to the press on a number of points including naming mary ambrose as robert palmer's girlfriend robert palmer was no longer involved with mary ambrose before his death his only contact with her at that point was trying to iron out a settlement agreement with ambrose ensuring that she would not give interviews about him or discuss him with the press mick carter was not fond of robert's true girlfriend in fact he disliked her intently robert palmer hadn't told many people about mick carter's firing opting to complete his publicity appearances in paris for drive before doing so carter was fully aware of this and took advantage of the situation when it was discovered what he had done and the surfeit of bogus and incorrect information that he had provided to the press worldwide the information was invalidated due to his firing and credibility issues because of his close friendship with mary ambrose he saw a money making opportunity for them in robert palmer's death carter even went so far as to stage a 'hoax' interview on mary ambrose's behalf entitled robert palmer was addicted to my love the article appeared on the th of september two days after the death of palmer the interview allegedly took place by phone backed up by a signed release when the interview was challenged by the family as being false the interview was basically robert palmer emoting about mary ambrose who his children knew he was no longer involved with in any vernacular at the time of his death the article was revealed to be a hoax at the time robert palmer was allegedly giving this interview by phone he was in fact in attendance at a social function accompanied by three friends of his who vouched he was with them the entire time the interview was allegedly taking place as for the release it was proven that robert palmer's signature was forged and not a very good forgery at that the article was to appear in three parts but once the publishers realized that the article was a hoax they cancelled the publication of the other two parts of the article and invalidated the one part that they had ran