Simon 'Blue' Robinson

And Rudolph knew that was a lie.

And he immediately said, what's the performance?

Where are the costumes?

You know, what's the repertoire?

And of course, they had no answer for that.

He said, we'll deal with it when we get there.

So he knew he was in trouble.

So Rudolph made absolute split decisions all his life, split second decisions.

And he said, right, I'm going to stay here.

And he walked towards French officials and said, I want to stay in your country.

And that, you know, eyes wide open, everybody knew there was going to be an incident.

So they were shouting and screaming and pushing and they wanted to grab him.

And he was in one room while all sorts of people were on the phone trying to work out what to do with this incredibly famous Russian dancer.

And the Russian interpreter was in there and she was saying, your family will be imprisoned.

And he just said, you shut up.

Once he made a decision, that was it.

He had an apartment in the Dakota building, which was very famous, where John Lennon lived.

John and Yoko Ono lived.

And he had on the second floor this huge apartment.

And it overlooked Central Park.