So there it was, straight from an Osmond’s mouth. When asked whether or not Saddam really owned Osmonds records, Merrill chuckled and said, “The CIA told our attorneys at the time, that they had found our records in a vault underneath one of (Saddam’s) palaces.” “We had to seriously discuss whether we would continue to do what we were doing,” he said, talking about the threats to his family. I spoke with Merrill Osmond about all these stories, and he stood by every last one of them. The Osmonds were allegedly deputized and moved into the Riveria apartments in Provo, Utah, after the Symbionese Liberation Army, a domestic terrorist group from Berkeley, California, threatened to kill off every band member individually. “When the military caught Saddam Hussein, they discovered he had a complete collection of Osmonds records.” Chuck Norris supposedly taught them Tang Soo Do (a Korean martial art) which they used in much of their choreography afterward. People say they were friends with Elvis, the Jackson 5, Frank Sinatra and the Bee Gees. There are many wild myths that have swirled around the Osmonds. It might be factual but there is no reliable source that we’re aware of.” His publicist’s response was cryptic: “We can confirm that this is something we/Team Donny have been told to be true.” But when pressed for source details, the publicist said, “No one is sure of the origin. Donny performed with his brothers before going solo and earning his own place in the echelons of celebrity (featured in “Start the Par-dee” with rapper Lil Yachty). The first to respond to my inquiries about the story was Donny Osmond’s publicist. Merrill Osmond, the lead vocalist/bassist in the group, gave a one-sentence account: “When the military caught Saddam Hussein,” he said, “they discovered he had a complete collection of Osmonds records.” Surely a story like this would be documented on the internet, I naively thought, but was able to find only a brief mention in an old interview from The Guardian.
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