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Rory Emerald
Thank you PrimeHunter. And have a beautiful Happy Easter. Here are some sources (mostly hardcopy). There are thousands of articles/stories about Rory Emerald. Are you interested in seeing everything? Or just hardcopy? I hope this helps, and again, Thank You. There have even been articles about me in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_emerald

Rory Emerald (born Julian Lee Hobbs; January 13, 1967) is an American performance artist, hoaxster extraordinaire, collagist, Hollywood personality, singer, and writer.

Rory Emerald gained popularity in 1990 when major media outlets linked him and actress Elizabeth Taylor romantically together. Wire services such as the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) were duped simultaneously for the first time in American history. Both wire services and many others reported the story as fact only to retract the story the very next day as an elaborate hoax. Since nobody has claimed responsibility for the hoax; stories about it still circulate today as if it had just happened. Unfinished business is sometimes just that, but not in this case.

In July and August of 1991 Rory Emerald was thrust into the news again. An unpaid full-page ad that read: WHO IS RORY EMERALD? and placed by the William Morris Agency (but not really) appeared in the New York Post. A day after the ad appeared the Post, USA Today, and other news organizations reported the $30.000 advertisement as a hoax. Then just a few weeks later in the same paper; a man named "Didlove" who later would be revealed as Rory Emerald was being sought after by a wealthy socialite who lived in a penthouse apartment atop the Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan. Apparently she and her husband who was a New York senator purchased a vintage armoire from Christie's which once belonged to the late Andy Warhol. Inside the large piece of furniture the woman who asked to be anonymous found a map and letter which was secreted inside the armoire. The documents indicated where a strongbox was buried in Central Park. After recovering the strongbox she was determined to get the letter, map, and all the contents inside the box to a man Andy Warhol had befriended many years before. The New York Post did a story about Didlove on Page Six. The next day it was revealed that Didlove and Rory Emerald were the same person. A very unusual story that got the attention of some very important people and museums around the world.

On October 7, 1991, exactly one day after Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky were married at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. A half-page unpaid ad in The Miami Herald read: "ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND RORY EMERALD FOREVER." The ad received national and international attention. Especially after it was revealed as another elaborate hoax.

Rory Emerald gained popularity again in 1993 when he was arrested at Ralph Lauren in Beverly Hills for posing as Mia Farrow's personal shopper. Farrow told reporters the next day she did not know who Rory Emerald was. And as a result of this happening, the Taylor/Emerald hoax resurfaced all over again. Emerald served a one-year sentence in Los Angeles County Jail. He was also ordered to pay Mia Farrow $300 in victim restitution.

Throughout the 90s "WHO IS RORY EMERALD?" full=page ads (all unpaid for) appear in different major newspapers and magazines all over the United States. Many people started collecting the actual ads and drawing on the actual ad itself who they thought Rory Emerald was andor looked like. Some of the depictions were very funny and made it into numerous art galleries in Los Angeles and New York.

In 2002 Rory Emerald gets a three-year restraining order against Elizabeth Taylor's ex-husband Larry Fortensky.

In 2005 Rory Emerald places a free found ad in The Santa Barbara News-Press claiming to have found a prosthetic nose near Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. Emerald said he placed the ad as a joke because he was so sick and tired of hearing all the molestation details during Jackson's molestation trial. From that particular ad which gained worldwide attention; Emerald decided to place other found ads in different newspapers across the country. Each as was friendly, interesting, and garnered a loyal following all over the world. Rory Emerald has placed about forty different found ads in newspapers all over the United States. https://books.google.com/books?id=e29yCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&source=bl&ots=hA8Wc2MF_M&sig=QUMlemMVDSHeHd8EMOU0NcXjk7Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwillYnT4- DLAhVB9mMKHZVvCXwQ6AEIVDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22Julian%20Lee%20Hobbs%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=V-4JAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&dq=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia7uf94-DLAhUW0GMKHQFBBO4Q6AEILDAB https://books.google.com/books?id=2SbuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&dq=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia7uf94-DLAhUW0GMKHQFBBO4Q6AEIMDAC https://books.google.com/books?id=KPFMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&dq=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia7uf94-DLAhUW0GMKHQFBBO4Q6AEIQTAF https://books.google.com/books?id=lmLuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&dq=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia7uf94-DLAhUW0GMKHQFBBO4Q6AEIOzAE https://books.google.com/books?id=zLUgAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&dq=%22Julian+Lee+Hobbs%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia7uf94-DLAhUW0GMKHQFBBO4Q6AEIRTAG http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Man-in-Liz-Taylor-Hoax-Allegedly-Poses-as-Mia-Farrow-s-Personal-Shopper/id-6c37f291caadcff526ce1bd939f8d1b2 http://www.ocregister.com/articles/emerald-192251-says-ran.html http://amarillo.com/stories/012608/new_9428681.shtml#.VvfHvo-cF9A http://celebrityblogsburg.blogspot.com/2009/03/hoaxer-rory-emerald.html http://www.auburnjournal.com/keywords/rory-emerald http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/rory_emerald http://www.rochestermagazine.com/the/rochies/story-403.html http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20080327/NEWS/803270325 http://www.deseretnews.com/article/272141/MAN-CHARGED-WITH-POSING-AS-CELEBRITYS-SHOPPER.html?pg=all http://lacrossetribune.com/mattjames/yes-the-possibilities-are-endless/article_ef435ed6-4f52-5a07-a3bb-eb47dbad8baa.html http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/505317/Joke-s-on-us--Prankster-gets-hoax-ad-in-Mirror.html?nav=742 http://mtstandard.com/news/state-and-regional/mummy-hoax-meant-to-cheer-up-missoulians/article_92ca140b-5a69-5c3d-90f2-fd4608e6def6.html http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080129/NEWS/639542547 http://ivo.co.za/2008/01/26/lost-nose-life-imitates-hoax-ad/#.VvfJx4-cF9A http://www.topix.com/forum/source/palo-alto-daily-news/TGTFH0MAF0ER776P9 http://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/06/13/Publicity-hounds-denies-role-in-Liz-Taylor-hoax/2113645249600/ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911011&slug=1310322 http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20050620/news_lz1c20pubeye.html http://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-Press-Photo-Entertainer-Rory-Emerald-/280802687739 http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2p6gc1fl4/superior-court-of-california-county-of-los-angeles/rory-emerald-v-news-america-publishing-inc-et-al/ http://screamermagazine.com/vintage-magazines/year-1990/screamer-magazine-march-1990/ http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2008/feb/24/you-found-a-what-prankster-pulls-one-on-readers/ https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4002735.html http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/serial_prankster_claims_to_find_time_machine http://articles.philly.com/1993-02-11/news/25956891_1_mtv-reporter-tabitha-soren-julian-lee-hobbs-prince-charles https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19900612&id=EnMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tIgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5154,2825907&hl=en https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/06/11/personalities/62ca7638-8667-45c2-ba27-34902238dbac/ http://www.elvicities.com/~presleyinthepres/2005a/200507g.html http://lennontwist.livejournal.com/ https://books.google.com/books?id=9BoIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22rory+emerald%22&dq=%22rory+emerald%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqkOvY6uDLAhUM4mMKHenECV4Q6AEIODAF http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0,,AA1379748-7084,00-ATOR+DE+LA+BAMBA+E+CONDENADO+POR+BATER+NA+NAMORADA.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by RORYwikiEMERALDpedia (talk • contribs)
 * Please post to User talk:PrimeHunter when that's the account you encountered, or reply at Teahouse/Questions. I asked you which page you want changed but you haven't answered that. I agree with others that the deleted pages are not suited for Wikipedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:22, 27 March 2016 (UTC)