News about Rolf Harris

It was while working for BBC's Newsnight that I first met Mohamed Al Fayed (right). The year was 1985 and he'd become the talk of the town after buying two great British institutions - the Dorchester Hotel and Harrods. It would be some time before he would begin his battle for British citizenship, but his wealth and controversial way of doing business had made him a subject of ­political interest. I'll never forget my visceral reaction to the man. I felt my flesh creep and couldn't get away from him fast enough. He hadn't made a move or touched me but there was something about him. He was one of those men who look you up and down in the way a farmer would view a cow at a cattle market, thankfully ­turning away with a sniff of ­dismissal in my case.

Emma-Jane Taylor, who founded the Not My Shame social media movement in the UK last year, claimed the sentence Edwards' received could encourage other abusers. She told Good Morning Britain: 'This potentially green lights another more serious situation for a child. It puts children at risks because abusers will look at this and think ''actually, this guy's got off, he's gone home, I'll give it a go''. The justice system in the UK is ludicrous. It's absurd, embarrassing and it's not going to protect children.'

Initially hung in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace for six months, it was later displayed at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery in 2012. After Rolf's 2013 arrest, it vanished. It's not in the Royal Collection and the Beeb insist they don't have it. The portrait has been acknowledged as mediocre and described by art critic Richard Dorment as uninspired and lacklustre... who would want to admit possession of disgraced Harris's daubs?

Ms Hughes, who had dementia, has passed away aged 93 - fifteen months after her husband (pictured together) - and remained in their Thames-side mansion unable to get out of bed until suffering a fatal stroke. Alwen never accepted that her Australian TV star husband was guilty of the 12 sex attacks on children as young as seven. He was jailed for just under six years and his wife of 65 years stood by him after his release until his death in 2023. The couple are survived by their only daughter Bindi, 60, (together left in 1962) who largely stood by her tarnished father, insisting he was a 'flirt' from a different generation, and also accompanied him to court during his trial each day. Alwen stayed in their home in Bray in Berkshire (inset), but could not leave the house that local estate agents expect to be sold off for millions. The property is in one of the UK's most exclusive riverside locations and could be demolished and replaced with a new mansion. One near-neighbour told MailOnline said: 'It's very sad to see her go but the past few years - she's been bed bound and no quality of life. We will miss them both'. A local estate said: 'The property clearly going to be sold very soon. In reality it needs to be completely knocked down and demolished'.

Rolf Harris' British wife Alwen Hughes had died at the age of 93 following a debilitating health battle.

Huw Edwards' guilty plea to the possession of child pornography, including one picture of a child as young as seven years old, is a momentous event in more ways than one. It obviously marks the ruination of the man who was the BBC's most highly-paid newsreader and its chosen successor to David Dimbleby as the anchor of great state occasions. Edwards' guilty plea to these extremely grave charges is also a reputational blow to the BBC itself, which had indulged him constantly and failed to respond in a decent or humane manner when allegations of impropriety were first made about him.

Yvette (right), 55, who joined Blue Peter in 1987 at the tender age of 18 (left, on the show in 1992), has revealed the Australian pervert assaulted her in a TV studio within two years of starting on the show after she found himself alone with him. At the time Harris (inset bottom) - dead of cancer last year at 93 - was one of the BBC's biggest stars, and it would be another 25 years before he was unmasked as a sexual predator by Operation Yewtree. TV veteran Yvette - who went on to create Most Haunted - says there was a cover-up culture in the TV industry at the time she started - protecting the likes of Harris and Jimmy Savile (inset top), with whom she says she had a 'grotesque' encounter.

The BBC 2 presenter has filed a libel claim at the High Court against the former Manchester City player. Mr Vine, 58, says after he was called the term on X, millions of people have read the post which accused him of having a 'sexual interest in children'. Lawyers for the journalist told the High Court their client is bringing defamation and harassment claims against the former Bristol Rovers manager. Mr Barton, 41, used the term 'nonce' to describe Mr Vine in posts on X in January, and refers to notorious paedophiles including Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile. He also refers to Phillip Schofield, the former TV presenter whose career collapsed when it was revealed he was having an affair with a younger male employee.

The new Fawlty Towers play is a triumph, according to the Mail's Jan Moir. But it got me wondering whether the original TV show would ever get made by the BBC today. And if it did, would it go something like this?

Examples of predators living a 'double life' are far from unusual, according to criminologists, charities, and children's rights researchers, with some using their position in society to ridicule accusers. Richard Burrows, who is accused of assaulting children at a children's home in Cheshire, is shown on the left. Julie Morris, Tom Ivey, Barry Hudson-Muscroft, and Warren Wild are also on the right, clockwise from top left.

After BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine's accusing him of a "bike nonce" on social media, Joey Barton has launched a fundraising campaign. After Barton's posts compared Vine to paedophiles like Rolf Harris, Vine reportedly filed a defamation lawsuit last week. Barton wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Vine's court action 'could possibly cost me up to £500k'.

It comes after Eni Aluko announced that she was taking legal action against Barton as a result of a 'defamatory' social media post about her family. Barton has been widely chastised, even by Rishi Sunak, for his online attacks on female pundits, as well as calling out the names of serial killers Fred and Rose West.

Rolf Harris' family (left with his wife) will close one of his companies and receive a £1.2 million cash windfall. Jenny Harris (right) has left the company that has inherited the success from Harris' time as a children's TV presenter and artist. RHE Investments' windfall includes £700,000 in cash and a £127,474 tax refund, as well as a £400,000 from another fund. Jenny Harris, who defended Harris while dealing with indecent assault charges, left the business and signed the Declaration of Solvency from Sydney, Australia, where she lives. (Inset: The Thames side home of Rolf Harris in Bray, Berkshire, England)

Karen Gardiner's shocking witness testimony opened the way in which the Australian-born presenter had gone from being a childhood favorite to stripping away her sense of autonomy. Harris was not found guilty of assaulting her aged 16 on suspicion that he had assaulted her aged 16. She told the show that she had started supporting his other victims. And viewers of the ITV documentary have been furious that the TV host, who died earlier this year, was only jailed for three years for his crimes.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has come under fire after it was revealed that it has already invested over £50,000 to rebuild a controversial statue by paedophile sculptor Eric Gill, which activists argue should be deleted instead. In deciding to carry out the costly repairs to the monument, Bosses at the company have been accused of 'astonishing moral turpitude.' Protesters have attacked Prospero and Ariel, which are on display outside the BBC's London headquarters, twice in the last two years. According to sexual harassment organisations, the BBC should ban Ariel from the statue, which depicts him as a naked child, after Gill, who wrote about abusing his daughters in his diaries. The true cost of the repair job is likely to go much beyond the £48,000 figure because this only covers the earlier phase of the project, with a second phase following.

Rolf Harris' daughter has renamed her in an attempt to distance herself from the disgraced entertainer's tumultuous past. The 59-year-old, who was formerly Bindi Harris, has now gone by the name of Ava Reeves as she begins her career as an artist. Following Bindi's disgraced television actor's death earlier this year, Rolf's only child is thought to be a multi-millionaire.

JULIE BURCHILL: Russell Brand's broad brush against him is all too familiar: the wealthy and popular man uses and assaults young people. However, it's the nuance that gives it its levancy and repulsiveness. Two of the most striking features in my opinion are cars, the most common of everyday household items. First, there is the taxi driver who drove 'Alice', a 16-year-old boy, to Brand's home. A man named 'Alice' reminisces about her wellbeing.

RICHARD EDEN: Catherine was polite when the first official royal portrait of Princess of Wales (pictured) was unveiled to the public a decade ago, describing Paul Emsley's efforts as "brilliant, absolutely marvelful." In one case, the commentators were less generous, dismissing it as 'ghastly...rotten... an out-and-out disaster.' "It's only saving grace is that it is not by Rolf Harris," another remarked. Now, I can reveal that the paintings has been consigned to a National Portrait Gallery display (inset), despite the fact that it is the London institution's first solo portrait of our future queen. It can be viewed "by prior appointment in our archives."

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Who the hell do these people think they are? The Commons privileges committee has now accused a democratically elected prime minister who gained an 80-seat majority three and a half years ago, not content with defenestrating him. Those MPs and peers who had the audacity to condemn Hattie Harman's lynch mob protesting Parliament's "integrity" were accused. Jacob Rees-Mogg and others are reported to have attempted to put undue pressure on members of the committee's members and, in turn, have attacked the very legitimacy of parliamentary democracy.

Four years have passed since the ball-tampering case involving Steve Smith and David Warner, but the pair remain England No. 1 in the eyes of England cricket fans, if their treatment at Edgbaston during the first Test was anything to go by. Here's a look at how the Barmy Army tried to put the Aussies off their game, only to see them squeak out one of the best victories in Ashes history.

With his unexpectedly positive tribute to the legacy of late Rolf Harris, a veteran Melbourne radio reporter has made news. Malcolm Stewart's remarks seemed to veer significantly away from the storyline in a stark contrast among media outlets around the world. Disgraced Australian actor Rolf died aged 93 after a fight with neck cancer, according to MailOnline.

Ulrika Jonsson said that Rolf Harris groped her when she was 21 years old. This month, the Australian painter and television star died of neck cancer at the age of 93. Ulrika, a 55-year-old presenter, claims she was sexually assaulted by Rolf while working as a TV-am weather girl in the 1980s.

Lisa Ratcliff, 53, pleaded for the disgraced actor's services for more than a decade and was involved in his defense of him when he was in jail and after his release, arguing that all of the sex charges he was found were miscarriages of justice. Alwen, 91, a jeweller and sculptor, is in a wheelchair and seriously ill as a result of Alzheimer's disease, but the couple, who married in 1958, were together until his death, with Lisa in charge of their carers and taking Rolf to appointments (main photo together). Lisa will also be central to keeping Harris' death a mystery for over a fortnight, allowing his family to mourn and have a private cremation. Ms Ratcliff's fortune will grow from Harris' will and inherit part of his estimated £15 million fortune, according to one insider. Following his demise from grace, the pair are said to have bonded over their love of dogs and her unfamous help. Rolf was known to always reward loyalty during his 60-plus years in the limelight, according to the author: "Rolf was wealthy, but Bindi will want to get everything." However, her father was also generous, and it's likely he'd give Lisa money, art, or possessions as a result of what she did for him.' Ms Ratcliff's certificate officially confirming Harris's death was issued at the Windsor and Maidenhead registry office on Tuesday morning by the woman's name (right on the day) and described as his 'runaround girl' for many years.

Alwen Harris, 91, was unaware that her husband, disgraced paedophile Rolf Harris, died at their Berkshire home earlier this month after succumbing to neck cancer at the age of 93. Harris is said to have advised his daughter to 'look after your mother' when he spoke with a feeding tube in the days leading up to his death on May 10. Alwen is believed to be still living in their £7 million mansion in Bray, Berkshire. She is currently in 24 hour nursing care.