AF-embeddability for Lie groups with $T_1$ primitive ideal spaces

We study simply connected Lie groups $G$ for which the hull-kernel topology of the primitive ideal space $\text{Prim}(G)$ of the group $C^*$-algebra $C^*(G)$ is $T_1$, that is, the finite subsets of $\text{Prim}(G)$ are closed. Thus, we prove that $C^*(G)$ is AF-embeddable. To this end, we show that if $G$ is solvable and its action on the centre of $[G, G]$ has at least one imaginary weight, then $\text{Prim}(G)$ has no nonempty quasi-compact open subsets. We prove in addition that connected locally compact groups with $T_1$ ideal spaces are strongly quasi-diagonal.