McCann's deny claims they are set to cash in on 10th anniversay.

[stephen25000]

They do in active cases.

As Alfie said, "The Met are involved in a long running investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, that's possibly why."

Their involvement in these two interviews only became apparent when the erroneous rumours were put about that Madeleine's parents were set to capitalise from her disappearance.  Yet again deflecting from their important work in publicising Madeleine's disappearance ... a continuation of ten years of false accusation and opprobrium directed at the McCanns.

Funding runs out in April 2017, and with nothing to show for it, justifying the funding is going to be hard to do.

As to what the Portuguese investigation is doing, especially in light of the Supreme Court decision remains to be seen.

As to financial remuneration, there remains the question, yet answered, and certainly not revealed by the accounts  of the fund, as to what happened to fees paid to the McCann's from the Oprah Winfrey Show, the serialization of Kate McCann's book in the Sun, magazine articles such as Hello magazine.


By the way Brietta, there is no onus on anyone to believe the Mccann's.

[G-Unit]

They do in active cases.

As Alfie said, "The Met are involved in a long running investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, that's possibly why."

Their involvement in these two interviews only became apparent when the erroneous rumours were put about that Madeleine's parents were set to capitalise from her disappearance.  Yet again deflecting from their important work in publicising Madeleine's disappearance ... a continuation of ten years of false accusation and opprobrium directed at the McCanns.

I have never heard of police arranging press interviews for victims of crime. They arrange appeals, but interviews?
Name one example.

It was a 'friend' who told the Sun about the 'bidding war'. No mention of the friend now being an ex friend, I notice. Who reported they 'were set to capitalise'?

[Brietta]

Funding runs out in April 2017, and with nothing to show for it, justifying the funding is going to be hard to do.

As to what the Portuguese investigation is doing, especially in light of the Supreme Court decision remains to be seen.

As to financial remuneration, there remains the question, yet answered, and certainly not revealed by the accounts  of the fund, as to what happened to fees paid to the McCann's from the Oprah Winfrey Show, the serialization of Kate McCann's book in the Sun, magazine articles such as Hello magazine.


By the way Brietta, there is no onus on anyone to believe the Mccann's.

You ask ...
"As to financial remuneration, there remains the question, yet answered, and certainly not revealed by the accounts  of the fund, as to what happened to fees paid to the McCann's from the Oprah Winfrey Show, the serialization of Kate McCann's book in the Sun, magazine articles such as Hello magazine."

It is well known that the fund set up to find Madeleine was depleted and almost extinct.  At a time when no-one else was looking for Madeleine but her parents using the fund to do so, Kate McCann wrote the book MADELEINE to replenish that fund ... and to keep the search for her daughter alive.


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Kate and Gerry have turned down down numerous offers of paid interviews in the past.

"But they have never accepted interview fees. They once accepted hospitality fees many years ago after travelling to America to appear on Oprah Winfrey, for flights and hotels.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

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The only time Kate ever received any payment connected to Maddie’s disappearance in May 2007 - £1 million before tax – was from her own book simply entitled “Madeleine” and published in 2011.

She was also given a newspaper serialisation fee, which went straight into the Maddie pot – a Fund set up when the three-year-old first went missing with donations from the generous public and big-hearted celebrities to help pay for investigators to find her and bring her perpetrators to justice.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

[stephen25000]

You ask ...
"As to financial remuneration, there remains the question, yet answered, and certainly not revealed by the accounts  of the fund, as to what happened to fees paid to the McCann's from the Oprah Winfrey Show, the serialization of Kate McCann's book in the Sun, magazine articles such as Hello magazine."

It is well known that the fund set up to find Madeleine was depleted and almost extinct.  At a time when no-one else was looking for Madeleine but her parents using the fund to do so, Kate McCann wrote the book MADELEINE to replenish that fund ... and to keep the search for her daughter alive.


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Kate and Gerry have turned down down numerous offers of paid interviews in the past.

"But they have never accepted interview fees. They once accepted hospitality fees many years ago after travelling to America to appear on Oprah Winfrey, for flights and hotels.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

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The only time Kate ever received any payment connected to Maddie’s disappearance in May 2007 - £1 million before tax – was from her own book simply entitled “Madeleine” and published in 2011.

She was also given a newspaper serialisation fee, which went straight into the Maddie pot – a Fund set up when the three-year-old first went missing with donations from the generous public and big-hearted celebrities to help pay for investigators to find her and bring her perpetrators to justice.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

Perhaps you would care to point in the fund accounts, where the serialization fee appears ?

It was widely reported as you well know that they received a large sum for the Oprah Winfrey Show, and I'm afraid giving quotes from the Sun, is worthless, as the proprietors of that paper have made at least one financial deal with the McCann's.

Meanwhile, what has happened to their wealthy benefactor's ?

..and they, the Mccann's, will have to pay Amaral. I wonder have they done that already.

[Brietta]

I have never heard of police arranging press interviews for victims of crime. They arrange appeals, but interviews?
Name one example.

It was a 'friend' who told the Sun about the 'bidding war'. No mention of the friend now being an ex friend, I notice. Who reported they 'were set to capitalise'?

I was under the impression you profess a very low regard for unattributed quotations either from a 'friend' or from 'sources close to the investigation' ...

This one is attributed ... although horrors! it does comes from a Sun report.

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Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry have not decided on any media interviews surrounding the anniversary yet but if any deal is done it will be extremely limited and no payment will be involved.

“Any suggestion they will be paid is completely inaccurate and utter rubbish!”

Portuguese media have suggested former GP Kate and heart doctor Gerry, from Rothley, Leics., are set to receive 100,000 euros (£85,086) from British deals and 400,000 euros (£340,345) from American chats.

The couple are considering two pooled interviews in Britain, one for print through the country’s national agency Press Association and one for broadcasters.

Both are being organised through Scotland Yard, Mitchell explained. He said: “There will be no fee.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/


The close involvement of the police suggests that perhaps their interest is in the case they are working and protection of the stage they are presently at in that.

Perhaps they have decided that focus on Madeleine can well do without the predictable diatribes against her parents which in my opinion have contributed only to Madeleine's case as a damaging distraction.
Which has led to the authorisation to make known their input which might otherwise not have been revealed.

Who is to say that police procedures in a cold case which has been reactivated does not include giving guidance and support to the victim's relatives who are indeed themselves victims.

The information was not put into the public domain without there being prior consultation from the Met.  It has had the desired effect of killing the out for profit story line ... although one wonders what calumny the Portuguese media will run with next or if they will stick with that one.
Of course they do have examples of the commercialisation of Madeleine McCann right on their doorstep ... pity they don't seem to have grasped where the real story might lie.

[Brietta]

Perhaps you would care to point in the fund accounts, where the serialization fee appears ?

It was widely reported as you well know that they received a large sum for the Oprah Winfrey Show, and I'm afraid giving quotes from the Sun, is worthless, as the proprietors of that paper have made at least one financial deal with the McCann's.

Meanwhile, what has happened to their wealthy benefactor's ?

..and they, the Mccann's, will have to pay Amaral. I wonder have they done that already.

Do please try to stick to the thread topic which refers to more unfounded calumnies being perpetrated against the McCanns.

[stephen25000]

I was under the impression you profess a very low regard for unattributed quotations either from a 'friend' or from 'sources close to the investigation' ...

This one is attributed ... although horrors! it does comes from a Sun report.

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Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry have not decided on any media interviews surrounding the anniversary yet but if any deal is done it will be extremely limited and no payment will be involved.

“Any suggestion they will be paid is completely inaccurate and utter rubbish!”

Portuguese media have suggested former GP Kate and heart doctor Gerry, from Rothley, Leics., are set to receive 100,000 euros (£85,086) from British deals and 400,000 euros (£340,345) from American chats.

The couple are considering two pooled interviews in Britain, one for print through the country’s national agency Press Association and one for broadcasters.

Both are being organised through Scotland Yard, Mitchell explained. He said: “There will be no fee.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/


The close involvement of the police suggests that perhaps their interest is in the case they are working and protection of the stage they are presently at in that.

Perhaps they have decided that focus on Madeleine can well do without the predictable diatribes against her parents which in my opinion have contributed only to Madeleine's case as a damaging distraction.
Which has led to the authorisation to make known their input which might otherwise not have been revealed.

Who is to say that police procedures in a cold case which has been reactivated does not include giving guidance and support to the victim's relatives who are indeed themselves victims.

The information was not put into the public domain without there being prior consultation from the Met.  It has had the desired effect of killing the out for profit story line ... although one wonders what calumny the Portuguese media will run with next or if they will stick with that one.
Of course they do have examples of the commercialisation of Madeleine McCann right on their doorstep ... pity they don't seem to have grasped where the real story might lie.

I have yet to see a direct quote from SY on this matter.

[Alfie]

That's not a reason to do something which, as far as we know, they've never done before.

Well either they ARE involved or Clarence is a bare faced liar.  Which do you think more likely?

[Eleanor]

I suspect that Operation Grange is going to make it quite obvious that The McCanns are not involved in the disappearance of their daughter, and are not suspects.

[G-Unit]

You ask ...
"As to financial remuneration, there remains the question, yet answered, and certainly not revealed by the accounts  of the fund, as to what happened to fees paid to the McCann's from the Oprah Winfrey Show, the serialization of Kate McCann's book in the Sun, magazine articles such as Hello magazine."

It is well known that the fund set up to find Madeleine was depleted and almost extinct.  At a time when no-one else was looking for Madeleine but her parents using the fund to do so, Kate McCann wrote the book MADELEINE to replenish that fund ... and to keep the search for her daughter alive.


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Kate and Gerry have turned down down numerous offers of paid interviews in the past.

"But they have never accepted interview fees. They once accepted hospitality fees many years ago after travelling to America to appear on Oprah Winfrey, for flights and hotels.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

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The only time Kate ever received any payment connected to Maddie’s disappearance in May 2007 - £1 million before tax – was from her own book simply entitled “Madeleine” and published in 2011.

She was also given a newspaper serialisation fee, which went straight into the Maddie pot – a Fund set up when the three-year-old first went missing with donations from the generous public and big-hearted celebrities to help pay for investigators to find her and bring her perpetrators to justice.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

So the book earned £1 million before tax? That's £ 580k, roughly, after tax. I believe the serialisation fee was £550k. Total £ 1,130,000.

In 2011 the Funds assets were £ 125,175.
In 2012 £550 was paid in as restricted funds. The serialisation fee? Unrestricted funds included income of £ 300k.
In 2013 income was £70k.
In 2014 more restricted funds were paid in; £400k.

Total restricted funds paid in £ 950k, £200k less than the estimated income related to the book. Of course some of it could have gone into unrestricted funds, perhaps in the £300k income in 2012. It looks like the actual book money came in over a few years or Kate kept some of it for a bit.

[Mr Gray]

I suspect that Operation Grange is going to make it quite obvious that The McCanns are not involved in the disappearance of their daughter, and are not suspects.

Most people realise that but SY may make it very hard for anyone to dispute it
I'm sure they will try

[slartibartfast]

Well either they ARE involved or Clarence is a bare faced liar.  Which do you think more likely?

Mitchell is a PR man and would be politician.

[Alfie]

Mitchell is a PR man and would be politician.

Yes, and?

[Mr Gray]

If SY come out strongly supporting the McCanns it's going to make the SC look a bit stupid

[Brietta]

So the book earned £1 million before tax? That's £ 580k, roughly, after tax. I believe the serialisation fee was £550k. Total £ 1,130,000.

In 2011 the Funds assets were £ 125,175.
In 2012 £550 was paid in as restricted funds. The serialisation fee? Unrestricted funds included income of £ 300k.
In 2013 income was £70k.
In 2014 more restricted funds were paid in; £400k.

Total restricted funds paid in £ 950k, £200k less than the estimated income related to the book. Of course some of it could have gone into unrestricted funds, perhaps in the £300k income in 2012. It looks like the actual book money came in over a few years or Kate kept some of it for a bit.

The thread topic concerns the current short lived spate of spurious allegations that Madeleine's parents were set to profit from the tenth anniversary of her disappearance.

The content of your post has been visited and revisited ad nauseam since the book MADELEINE was published and does not really reflect  the current topic apart from reinforcing totally unfounded, unjustified and unjustifiable calumnies perpetrated against Madeleine's parents.

In other words the thread is dealing not with past vilification but with the current invective which had started to do the rounds ... both from the same stable, I'll grant you ... but the present character assassination stopped in its tracks by the revelation of Scotland Yard involvement in everything concerning Madeleine McCann's active case including media statements.