What happened to disgraced Australian entertainer Rolf Harris after his arrest?
18.05.2023 - 14:45
/ msn.com
Rolf Harris was once considered a national treasure, however had a well-documented fall from grace after he was arrested for the abuse of young girls. The Australian-born entertainer had worked in the entertainment industry for decades, as a musician, singer-songwriter, composer, comedian, actor, painter and television personality.
Throughout the years he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (in 1968); then was advanced to Officer in 1977, then to Commander in 2006, and even famously painted a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. But in 2012 when the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal broke, Harris was arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree police investigation.
Two years later he was convicted and sent to jail of the sexual assault of four underage girls, one of whom included his daughter’s childhood best friend. Now his fall from grace has been captured in the two-part documentary series Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight, which is available to stream on ITVX.
While Harris has effectively disappeared from the public eye since being released from prison, he is still alive, but where is he in 2023?After the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal broke, Harris was one of 12 people arrested and was questioned about historical allegations of sexual offences for the first time in May 2013. While he denied any wrongdoing and was released on bail without charge, in August he was again arrested and the charged with nine counts of indecent assault dating to the 1980s.
Those involved two girls between 14 and 16 years old, and four counts alleging production of indecent child images in 2012. In December of the same, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that Harris was facing three further counts of
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