Posted on 01/27/2009 10:00:43 PM PST by Steelfish
Olivia Newton-John's partner 'staged his own death to avoid debt repayments and is alive and well,' U.S. investigators claim
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 27th January 2009
The former partner of Olivia Newton-John, who was believed to have drowned at sea nearly four years ago, staged his own disappearance, private U.S. investigators have claimed.
Patrick McDermott is said to be travelling along the Mexican and South America coastline under an alias to avoid paying debts and enable his teenage son to cash in on a $151,000 insurance policy.
McDermott was 48 years old when he disappeared after boarding a fishing charter boat called The Freedom in California in June 2005.
Patrick McDermott, pictured here with Olivia Newton-John in 2005, just months before he allegedly staged his own death in an apparent boating tragedy U.S. Coast Guard officials concluded that the cameraman had most likely drowned in a boating tragedy - which Newton-John, his parter of eight years, has always accepted.
But suspicion remained over McDermott's disappearance after it emerged he filed for bankruptcy before his disappearance. He also owed thousands of dollars in child support payments to his ex-wife.
Olivia married John Easterling in 2008 The explosive new claims will be detailed in U.S. network NBC's current affairs show Dateline this week.
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Hmmm.
Oh heck I am going to say it:
Obamas fault.
Olivia must have forced him to listen to her music.
I wish Jim McDermott would try to stage his disappearance.
Welcome to FR.
/johnny
I always thought he staged it, not really surprised!
Don’t know why, but thought this might be the case.
Her early recordings weren’t all that bad. Then she morphed into her “Pop” buble gum music stage and flopped.
I saw the show when it aired, and they prseented no real evidence.
Why is there so much news posted here lately about her?
Lets Get Physical Physical I wanne get Physical....
That was the first jazz er size video.
If her man did fake his own death and was a con/cad then we can earnestly say her choice in men fell drastically from her dayz with Jerry Brown.
Perhaps she should have gotten a canine dog as a companion to spare her grief.
I don't care how hot she is, the second time she made me listen to Have You Never Been Mellow, I would would be pulling a D. B. Cooper also.
So explosive does not quite describe it.
More like flacid?
Throwback to the Golden Age of BabyBoom Era
Beedy eyes but nice jaw line.
He kinda looks like a cheap male hooker/pool boy.
If he was in financial dire straits at least she was not blind enough to bail him out.
Perhaps you’re thinking of Linda Ronstadt re: Jerry Brown?
Linda Ronstadt was the moonbeamer, but a much better singer.
She’s aged nicely.
He died poorly.
It was the Dead Kennedys that sang about Jerry Brown.
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