Pop paedophile GARY GLITTER to be sentenced for vile sex crimes against children
Paedophile glam rock singer Gary Glitter is due to be sentenced today for a string of historic sex attacks on three schoolgirls. The 70-year-old will appear at Southwark Crown Court where he is facing a maximum of life in prison after being found.
GARY GLITTER Wears Out His Welcome in Southeast Asia
BANGKOK -- One British tabloid called him the worlds most unwanted man. Vietnam deported him; Thailand refused him entry, saying he was a threat to domestic morality, and Hong Kong put him on a flight back to Thailand.. Officials in several countries close the door to an aging rock singer who has just served a prison term in Vietnam for abusing two girls.
GARY GLITTER sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually abusing three young.
LONDON ��� Former pop star Gary Glitter has received a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s. The 70-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, showed no response as he was sentenced .
Made for Each Other
THE POWER AND THE GLITTER The Hollywood-Washington Connection. By Ronald Brownstein. Illustrated. 437 pp. New York: Pantheon Books. $24.95. In the early part of our century, before airplanes, interstate highways and the fund-raising brunch, the District of Columbia and Hollywood were two small towns with one thing in common: both spent much time and energy trying to divine the mood of the country. Beyond that, they had little active interest in each other. But by 1981 a movie star was in the White House, and by 1988 another movie star, Warren Beatty, was part of the inner circle of Gary Harts Presidential campaign, developing strategy. Just how American politics has become so enmeshed with Hollywood is the subject of The Power and the Glitter, Ronald Brownsteins fascinating account of what he terms in his subtitle The Hollywood-Washington Connection. As Mr. Brownstein shows, most of the Hollywood people involved in politics -- like the actress Helen Gahagan Douglas, who served in Congress in the 1940s, or Orson Welles, who toyed with the idea of running for Vice President in 1948 -- have been liberals. Yet the two who have got the farthest were not. George Murphy, the tap-dancer who made it to the Senate in the 1960s, and of course Ronald Reagan, who did even better, were men of the right. It is as if the public were saying to Hollywood: well take actors, but not the ones you want to offer us. Currently, Hollywoods participation in national politics is centered on fund raising. Ideas certainly play a part (as they did during the Depression and World War II, when Hollywoods involvement was more ideological), but few candidates come to Southern California for counsel. They come for money -- and they get it, in large amounts. Hollywoods money-givers are not as bad as they might be, nor are they as vapid as Mr. Brownstein sometimes paints them. They are certainly not as venal as the gents who occupied the smoke-filled rooms of the past. Apart from money, Hollywood can always provide glamour. Hollywoods greatest creation is itself, Mr. Brownstein writes. And what are most American politicians but self-invented? Gary Hart sums up the political value of Hollywood celebrities to candidates this way: Its a little bit like [ the stars ] are. saying, You know who I am, and I want to tell you about my friend.. I want you to support him. Its almost a transfer. Mr. Brownstein, a political correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, is an able guide through all of these thickets, and if he has his prejudices -- hes a liberal and, in the current fashion, is slightly contemptuous of modern Hollywood -- he has written a needed book, the first full-scale attempt that I know of to bring together this part of our modern history. The result is graceful and nuanced. The history of the Hollywood-Washington connection, as Mr. Brownstein describes it, begins with Louis B. Mayer, the head of M-G-M, the mightiest of the studios, and Herbert Hoover. Mayer seemed to think that proximity to Hoover might help him associate with classier people than his everyday business provided, and he flattered and cajoled his way into the future Presidents favor. But if the connection started gently, even sleepily, it soon moved to activism, forced by the events of the 1930s and 1940s. Hollywood lurched into electoral politics in the 1934 California gubernatorial race. The author Upton Sinclair ran on a populist platform that proposed increasing the taxes on the film studios. The response was mogul politics. hard, shrewd, autocratic, and above all, coercive, culminating in a fabricated newsreel that was to prove significant in defeating Sinclair. The newsreel depicted wild-eyed, foreign-looking radicals happily anticipating Sinclairs socialist paradise. (Some of the footage was apparently lifted from a Warner Brothers feature film.) The result, for the studio chiefs, was a political baptism, an involvement in politics that has only grown, never diminished. During the war, those in the movie business, like most Americans, made common cause with the Government. But after the anti-Communist hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities got under way in the late 1940s and the subpoenas started arriving, many in Hollywood came to view the Government not as a partner or a benevolent father but as a danger. Prominent individuals in the movie community suffered under HUACs thumb, while others cooperated with the committee or applauded it, and the divisions are still evident today. Although there was very little effective fighting back, Mr. Brownstein describes how a Committee for the First Amendment was formed by John Huston, William Wyler and Philip Dunne. This group, with a brigade of movie stars, went to Washington in an ill-fated attempt to defend the so-called Hollywood Ten, the writers and directors who would soon be in prison for refusing to name names or say whether they had belonged to the Communist Party. If there is often an adversarial quality to Hollywoods dealings with Washington today, surely it began with the HUAC hearings. During the early 40s, Hollywood was able to raise large sums of money very fast for the war effort. But it wasnt until the rise of television that modern Hollywood fund raising began to come into its own. The first political winner of the television age was John F. Kennedy, who, according to Mr. Brownstein and just about anyone who met Kennedy, treated Hollywood like a cross between a fraternity and a brothel. Mr. Brownstein hangs his narrative thread on personal alliances: Adlai Stevenson and Lauren Bacall, for example, or Warren Beatty and Gary Hart. In the case of Kennedy, he focuses on the Presidents relationship with Frank Sinatra, a relationship that he considers pivotal in the history of Hollywood and Washington. Mr. Sinatra and his rat pack of chums embodied Hollywoods most elemental myth, its deepest unspoken appeal. a life without rules, without the constraints of fidelity, monogamy, sobriety. This was, as we now all know, dangerously close to Kennedys own personal ethos. The Sinatra-Kennedy match was perfect for a while, each man drawing what he needed from the other. It was Mr. Sinatra who introduced Kennedy to Judith Exner, the young woman he had also introduced to the head of the Chicago mob. For a while she traveled between her two men. (If thats not a movie plot, Ill turn in my Guild card.) At a higher level during this era, Arthur Krim, then head of United Artists, now of Orion Pictures, raised money for Kennedy and later became close to Lyndon Johnson. It was Mr. Krim, Mr. Brownstein relates in a particularly vivid section of his book, who brought Lew Wasserman, the legendary chief of MCA Inc. who is generally thought of as the last of the moguls, into active participation in the Democratic party, ushering in the era of serious Hollywood fund raising. Mr. Brownstein is a little hard on some of the players in his tale -- Norman Lear, for one, may have reason to complain about unnecessary roughness -- but there is no denying that fund raising in Los Angeles has its bizarre features. Any candidate, for almost any race, with the slightest claim on national attention has to think seriously about marching to Beverly Hills with a begging bowl, and we are faced with the spectacle of United States Senators chasing money at gatherings of 22-year-old actors. At one such bash, Mr. Brownstein reports that a prominent young television actress, concerned about her tax bite, confronted Senator Alan Cranston and wanted to know if he could pass a law to give her some relief. The Senators answer is unrecorded. The grand, irreducible point about Hollywood is that it both creates and reflects the dreams and aspirations of the nation. Managing those dreams and aspirations, giving them life, is Washingtons task. In bringing together the two endeavors, entertainment and politics, both so fundamentally American, in an astute and rewarding book, Mr. Brownstein has produced a match made in celluloid heaven.
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Gary Glitter jailed for 16 years for schoolgirl sex abuse
Pop star Gary Glitter in the height of his glam rock fame in the 1970s. Towards the end of the decade, Glitter struck again - assaulting a 13-year-old girl as she sat on his lap in his dressing room. The jury at Southwark Crown Court was not told that.
Gary Glitter Charged With 8 Sex Offenses
British prosecutors say they are charging former pop star Gary Glitter with eight sex offenses involving teenage girls.
Former Pop Star Gary Glitter Sentenced to 16 Years for Child Sex Offenses
Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, who shot to fame in the 1970s as a glam-rock star but was later convicted of child sex crimes, was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three girls.
Gary Glitters brother-in-law has called for the execution of.
GARY Glitters brother-in-law condemned the perverts 16-year jail sentence yesterday as too lenient and declared: ���I would have shot him.���
I never took fans backstage because I was cleaning my wig.
I never took fans backstage because I was cleaning my wig, says Gary Glitter. Singer tells trial he could not have assaulted girls after concerts as he was alone cleaning his wig to hide his baldness. Gary Glitter sex offences��.
GARY GLITTER jailed for 16 years for historic sex attacks on 3 schoolgirls
Shamed star Gary Glitter claimed that he had been demonised by the Press ever since he was jailed for possession of a huge stash of child pornography in 1999. His lawyer, Sallie Bennett-Jenkins attempted to get the prolific paedophile a lesser sentence.
Britain’s Crime of Complicity
The political establishment is tangled in a web of deceit and intrigue over decades of child sexual abuse.. Op-Ed article by journalist and author Laurie Penny excoriates British establishment for its history of sheltering known child molesters, particularly those with celebrity status; holds that investigations into historical allegations of sex abuse by leading political figures have dragged ugly tradition into spotlight; warns that culture of complicity remains in place, but public scrutiny may force change.
Gary Glitter Found Guilty in Child Sex Case
Gary Glitter has been found guilty of a series of child-sex offenses that took place in the 70s and 80s. He was convicted in a London court today. The glam-rocker ��� born Paul Gadd and best known for his Top 10 1972 hit��.
Former Pop Star GARY GLITTER Found Guilty of Child Sex Offences
Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, who shot to fame in the 1970s as a glam-rock star but was later convicted of child sex crimes, was found guilty on Thursday of indecently assaulting three girls.
Former pop star Gary Glitter sentenced to 16 years in prison - AOL.com
The singer was arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, the national investigation British police launched in the wake of a child abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile. Glitter is best known for the hit Rock and Roll.
Broadway Stars Glitter in Stamford
THE billing of todays 3 oclock concert with orchestra at the Stamford Palace as Two Ladies of Broadway is remarkably modest, since any number of high-powered adjectives could well be applied to Rita Moreno, one of the original cast stars of West Side Story and Carol Channing, the first Hello Dolly. For further information: 323-2131. When the New York City Ballet brings An Evening of Dance to the New Haven Shubert today at 7, a legendary theater and film couple of an earlier era will be remembered: one of the works on the program has Darcy Kistler and Robert LaFosse rendering a Salute to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Performance-only tickets are available or, for a donation of $50, one can also attend a post-concert dessert reception (562-5666).
Gary Glitter to be sentenced for schoolgirl sex abuse
Gary Glitter jailed for 16 years for historical sex attacks. Gary Glitter has been jailed for 16 years at Southwark Crown Court for a string of historic sex attacks on three schoolgirls. Share · Tweet · Plus · Reddit · View all 4 updates ���. 27 February.
The Business Behind the Glitter at Cannes
Janason Hu has brought his film Moon Lake to the 49th Cannes International Film Festival, but he has no fantasies about seeing stars pushing their way through crowds of photographers to attend a gala showing of his movie. For the young director from Taiwan, Cannes means something far less romantic. Working from the Taiwan stand in the neon-lit basement of the Palais des Festivals, Mr. Hu tries to interest passers-by in his movie, a video of which is being shown on a nearby television. Last week, he managed to barter it for a Russian film, which he must now sell in Taiwan. This week, he hopes to make his first international sale of Moon Lake.
Glam Rocker GARY GLITTER Convicted of Indecently Assaulting.
LONDON ��� Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, who shot to fame in the 1970s as a glam-rock star but was later convicted of child sex crimes, w.
GARY GLITTER sentenced to 16 years in prison
Three weeks after he was convicted of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one count of having sex with an underage girl, Gary Glitter, the former glam rocker once known for ���Rock And Roll, Parts One And Two��� but now known.
Gary Glitter Jailed For 16 Years Over Sex Abuse
Glitter, who denied all the charges, also indecently assaulted a 13-year-old. Skys Enda Brady, who is at Southwark Crown Court, said Glitter did not react as he was handed his sentence. As he arrived in court, he waved at two friends in the public.
Gary Glitter Is Denied amnesty in Vietnam
The disgraced 1970s pop star Gary Glitter, serving a three-year jail sentence in Vietnam for sexual activity with pre-teenage girls.
GARY GLITTER jailed for 16 years following sex attacks on young girls
Sentencing him at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Alistair McCreath said Glitter had ���done real and lasting damage��� to his victims, who had been ���profoundly affected by your abuse of them���. He added: ���You did so for no other reason than for your own.
GARY GLITTER found guilty of sex crimes, faces life imprisonment
A jury found the former glam rocker guilty of sex abuse offenses against three young girls.
GARY GLITTER jailed for 16 years for sexual assault of three schoolgirls
The former glam rock singer Gary Glitter faces the prospect of dying in jail after being sentenced to 16 years for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. The 70-year-old, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was found guilty of one count of attempted rape, one.
Gary Glitter handed 16-year prison sentence for child sex abuse
There is no statute of limitations for such offenses in the UK. Glitter was known as a glam rocker in the 1970s for his flamboyant clothes and performing style. He sold 18 million records with hits such as Im the Leader of the Gang (I Am!), I.
Rocker GARY GLITTER Jailed For 16 Years For Child Sex Abuse.
Rocker Gary Glitter, best known for the stadium rock anthem Rock andamp; Roll (Part 2), was sentenced to 16 years in prison for sex offenses.
Quite A While; HOW LONG WILL SOUTH AFRICA SURVIVE? Africa
THIS is the sort of book that academics ho-hum, but that interested citizens relish. Though R.W. Johnson is a respected Oxford professor, a Fel low in politics and sociology at Magdalen College, his book is not heavy with footnotes, not very theoretical.. Book How Long Will S Africa Survive? revd (M)
Former pop star GARY GLITTER convicted of child sex abuse in.
Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, arrives at Southwark Crown Court on February 5, 2015 in London, England. The former glam rock star faces 10 charges relating to alleged sexual crimes from the 1970s and early 1980s.
GARY GLITTER sentenced to 16 years in jail for historic sex attacks on schoolgirls
Read more: Gary Glitter guilty of new child sex offences. Sentencing Glitter, Judge Alistair McCreath said impact statements from all three of his victims made it clear they were all profoundly affected by the abuse. He described Glitters abuse of a.
GARY GLITTER found guilty of child sex offences - The Guardian
Former Glam rock star Gary Glitter faces spending the remainder of his life in prison after being found guilty of a series of child sex offences on three young girls, aged between 8 and 13. A jury of five men and seven women��.
Gary Glitter LIVE - Daily Express
GARY Glitter has today been jailed for 16 years for a string of historic sex attacks against young girls, committed at the height of his fame.
Burmese Are Wary of Tourisms Dark Side
HONG KONG - As dramatic political reforms continue to take shape in Myanmar, a wave of tourists has already started to arrive, eager to explore the countrys magnificent temples, beaches and highlands.. As dramatic political reforms continue to take shape in Myanmar, a wave of tourists has already started to arrive. How can a tourist travel responsibly without enriching the very people who kept the country in the dark for so many decades? And will Myanmar avoid following Thailand and Cambodia into sex tourism?
British Stars of Yesteryear Are Ensnared in Sexual Offenses Inquiry
An investigation into offenses that may or may not have been committed decades ago has resulted in a flurry of arrests and has many people asking who will be next.. Operation Yewtree, broad British investigation into sexual offenses that may have occurred decades ago, has resulted in flurry of arrests of aging stars from bygone era; inquiry was formed following 2012 disclosure that entertainer Jimmy Savile had been serial sexual predator, which spurred hundreds of victims to come forward with their own accounts of sexual assault.
GARY GLITTER jailed for 16 years but told he was lucky he did not get longer
Pop star Gary Glitter in the height of his glam rock fame in the 1970s. However it has now emerged that Glitter could face fresh charges after Scotland Yard confirmed it had further ���information��� during the trial, which is currently being looked at by.
Former pop star Gary Glitter sentenced to 16 years for child sex offenses
Former British pop singer Gary Glitter, 70, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three girls. Edward Baran reports.
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Lesser Charge for Rocker The Vietnamese police plan to charge the British glam rocker Gary Glitter with child molestation and to drop a charge of child rape, his Vietnamese lawyer said yesterday, Reuters reported. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was arrested last month after girls accused him of having sex with them. These charges prompted the police to determine whether the circumstances merited a charge of child rape, which can carry the death penalty. Glitter, 61, who achieved stardom in the 1970s, has been in detention since Nov. 19, after he was arrested while trying to leave the country. He has denied charges that he molested girls as young as 12. The age of consent in Vietnam is 16. His lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, said, The investigation has ended, and the charge will still be the initial one, while additional issues were not raised by investigators, probably because of a lack of evidence. After a review of the investigation, prosecutors are to announce whether Gary Glitter will be tried. At Cole Porters Birthplace The birthplace of Cole Porter, below, in Peru, Ind., is undergoing renovations and will reopen as a museum and bed and breakfast inn, The Associated Press reported. The house, with more than 20 rooms, was built in the 1860s. Situated in this town, which is about midway between South Bend and Indianapolis, it fell into disrepair and was split into apartments, including one in which the police found a methamphetamine lab two years ago. It is really important that this historical landmark be saved, Mildred Kopis, curator of the Miami County Museum, where much of Porters memorabilia is displayed, said of the house. Now owned by the Ole Olsen Memorial Theater Group, it is to undergo repairs to its foundation, reconstruction of four porches, replacement of wiring and plumbing and installation of new heating and air-conditioning equipment. Porter, who wrote more than 1,500 songs for the stage, movies and television, among them Night and Day, Begin the Beguine and Anything Goes, was born in the house in 1891 and lived there until he was 10. He died in 1964. He Remembers Dada When the City Commission holds its weekly meeting today in Lawrence, Kan., Mayor Boog Highberger plans to proclaim International Dadaism Month in honor of the provocative, sometimes absurdist art movement that flowered in the 1920s, The Associated Press reported. But in the spirit of an art movement that declared that art is dead, the mayor has chosen not to specify a month for the observance. International Dadaism Month, he says, is Feb. 4, March 28, April 1, July 15, Aug. 2, 7, 16 and 26; Sept. 18 and 22, and Oct. 1, 17 and 26. How did he reach that conclusion? He rolled dice and picked numbers from a hat. I just think it is good to acknowledge that there is a place for chance and nonsense in every healthy lifestyle, Mayor Highberger said. Not all members of the electorate agreed. It sounds like a waste of time to me, said Joe Hutchens, a construction worker. It seems like the City Commission would have something better to do than that. Footnotes Windsor Castle, in the town where Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and Sir Elton John and David Furnish exchanged vows this year, will be the subject of a three-part documentary to be broadcast on PBS in February. A look not only at the home of Britains royal family but also at the 400 housekeepers, chefs, farmers, horse trainers, clockmakers, military knights, clerics and others who live and work there year round, Windsor Castle: A Royal Year will be seen at 8 p.m. on consecutive Wednesdays: Feb. 15 and 22 and March 1. Featuring more than 100 dancers, vocalists and guitarists from Spain, the annual New York Flamenco Festival, beginning on Feb. 3 and running through Feb. 19, will be highlighted by the all-star Gala Flamenca, a benefit for the World Music Institute, on Feb. 15. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the event, featuring Merche Esmeralda, Manolo MarĂn, Javier BarĂłn, Soledad Barrio, Rafael Campallo and Adela Campallo, will take place at City Center.. Vietnamese police plan to charge British glam rocker Gary Glitter with child molestation and to drop charge of child rape; Glitter was arrested when girls as young as 12 accused him of having sex with them; has been in detention since Nov 19 (S)
The Allure of Gold and Glitter
All That Glitters Islip Art Museum, 50 Irish Lane, East Islip, (631)224-5402. Through Jan. 25. Yes, it is true: Gold is not the only thing that glitters. The artists in this group show prove the old saying by using a variety of shiny, lustrous and gleaming materials, of which gold is only one.. Helen Harrison reviews group shows at Islip Art Museum, Graphic Eye Gallery in Port Washington and Gallery Merz in Sag Harbor; photos (M)
GARY GLITTER Sentenced to 16 Years in Jail for Sex With a Minor, Attempted Rape
Gary Glitter is going away. The former glam rocker has been sentenced in a British court to 16 years in jail for attempted rape, unlawful intercourse with a girl younger than 16 and four counts of indecent assault, BBC News reported Friday. You did.
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Glitter was found guilty in a London court earlier this month on child sex crimes.
GARY GLITTER Jailed For 16 Years For Sexually Abusing Three Schoolgirls
Gary Glitter, the former glam rock star, has been sentenced 16 years this morning after he was found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls. 70-year-old Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, may well spend the remainder of his life in jail.
Depp, Heard reportedly marry; Glitter found guilty
The days top showbiz news and headlines including Johnny Depp and Amber Heard reportedly marry, Gary Glitter is found guilty of indecently assaulting three girls, and Juliette Binoche hits the Berlin Film Festival. Bob Mezan reports.
GARY GLITTER convicted of committing numerous sexual.
After decades of inexplicably avoiding serious jail time for committing a series of sexual offenses against young girls in the 70s, a London court has finally convicted Gary Glitter of one count of attempted rape, four counts of��.
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GARY GLITTER Found Guilty Of Sex Crimes - Stereogum
Paul Gadd -- bka Gary Glitter -- has been standing trial for what the BBC deemed historical sex abuse, and today he was convicted of having sex with a girl.
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James Joyce Manuscript Surfaces A previously unknown six-page James Joyce manuscript has been acquired by Irelands National Library for $1.39 million. Written in pencil in 1923, the sheets, dealing with the first stage of Finnegans Wake, were acquired by a British-based private collector and sold by Sothebys, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. Joyce experts at the library said the sheets included crucial elements in his initial effort at a new book after Ulysses. Aongus OhAonghusa, the director of the library, said the most fascinating aspect of the manuscript was the involvement of Joyces wife, Nora, and the evidence of a collaborative effort. Her handwriting appears on three or four of the sheets, he said. We know that in the middle part of 1923, his eyesight was particularly bad. He dictated the material, and she scribbled it down. Then at some stage later when his eyesight improved, he went back over it and made changes, particularly spelling changes. But he didnt correct all the spelling; curiously enough, he retained some of her misspellings. The purchase of the manuscript was financed by Allied Irish Bank under a special tax credit program, and the bank donated it to the library, home of a major Joyce collection. James Levine Is Still Out James Levine, below, was unable to conduct yesterday afternoons Boston Symphony Orchestra concert at Symphony Hall in Boston as he continued to recover from an onstage fall there on Wednesday night. A statement yesterday from Mark Volpe, the orchestras managing director, said Mr. Levine, its music director, is experiencing considerable soreness and discomfort in his shoulder. Mr. Volpe added: As a result, he needs to continue resting from conducting today, and possibly the remainder of the weekend. Mr. Levine is extremely disappointed about his continuing absence from the B.S.O. podium, and sincerely hopes to return as soon as possible. Jens Georg Bachmann, assistant conductor, led the orchestra in Schoenbergs Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Beethovens Symphony No. 9. The program is to be repeated tonight. There was no word on whether Mr. Levine would conduct the orchestras concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday. Gary Glitter Sentenced Castigated by a judge in Vietnam for disgusting and sick behavior, the British glam rocker Gary Glitter, 61, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for molesting two Vietnamese girls, The Associated Press reported. A star in the 1970s, Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was found guilty of committing obscene acts with two girls, 10 and 11, at his rented seaside villa in the southern port city of Vung Tau and at nearby hotels. Although he showed no emotion while the verdict was read, Glitter proclaimed his innocence immediately afterward. I havent done anything, he said. Im innocent. Its a conspiracy by you know who. He appeared to be referring to British newspapers that tracked him to Vietnam. The court also ordered him to pay $320 to each girls family, as well as court fees, and the judge said he would be deported to Britain after he served his sentence. He has 15 days to appeal. His lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, said he would be eligible for parole in a year. Carnegie Hall to Honor Donor of $20 Million In recognition of a $20 million gift from its trustee Ronald O. Perelman, Carnegie Hall announced yesterday that the stage of its Isaac Stern Auditorium would be named the Ronald O. Perelman Family Stage. The gift benefits Carnegie Halls education and artistic programs through the establishment of the Ronald O. Perelman Family Music Endowment for elementary and secondary music education. Mr. Perelman, the chairman and chief executive of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, whose interests include Panavision and Revlon, will also produce an annual benefit event at Carnegie Hall. Norman Mailer was given the medal of the Legion of Honor, Frances highest distinction, in ceremonies yesterday at the French cultural embassy on the Upper East Side. Jean-David Levitte, the French ambassador, said, Norman Mailer is an American hero with a fierce love of freedom, and an intellectual who has taken a stand in all the great struggles of his time -- what we call un intellectuel engagé. Mr. Mailer, whose books include The Naked and the Dead, The Armies of the Night and The Executioners Song, was made a commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 1983. Leonard Cohen Wins Millions; Can He Collect? The singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, below, has been awarded a $9.5 million default judgment against his former business manager after she failed to respond to charges of stealing from his retirement savings, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Cohens lawyer, Scott Edelman, said that on Monday a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles granted the judgment against the manager, Kelley Lynch. Mr. Cohen, 71, said in his lawsuit that Ms. Lynch had siphoned $5 million from his personal accounts and investment, leaving him with about $150,000. Whether Mr. Cohen collects the judgment is another matter. Mr. Edelman said of Ms. Lynch: Shes hard to get in touch with. I dont know where she lives now, and I dont have a phone number for her. She could not be reached for comment. Grodin to Grodins Rescue If figurative calls of Author! Author! resounded through the 59E59 Theaters on Thursday, they were less a sign of acclaim than a cry for help. A leading actor in the Primary Stages production of the Charles Grodin play The Right Kind of People had been taken ill. What to do? The answer: Recruit the playwright in his place. So Mr. Grodin, who had not acted onstage since 1975, when he appeared in Same Time, Next Year, soon found himself signing an Equity contract and standing before an audience, script in hand, in his comedy about the members of the co-op board of a Fifth Avenue apartment building. He was to repeat his performance last night and was standing by, if needed, to appear in todays matinee. The show closes tomorrow afternoon. New Springsteen Album Is Homage to Pete Seeger Bruce Springsteen will release his 21st album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions on April 25. The album, on Columbia, features interpretations of 13 songs associated with the folk legend Pete Seeger. Pearl Jam will release its first album in three and a half years on May 2, Reuters reported. The J Records recording, Pearl Jam, will be preceded by a single, World Wide Suicide, to be released to rock radio outlets in the United States on Wednesday.. Previously unknown six-page James Joyce manuscript that outlines first stage of book Finnegans Wake has been acquired by Irelands National Library for $1.39 million from Sothebys auction(S)
Bizarre scenes in court as Gary Glitter superfans wave to their hero as he.
Posting on the Gary Glitter. Forever The Leader Facebook page, Claire Shephard wrote: REQUEST. Direct request. If you can please be at Southwark Court, Friday, 27th February to show your support for Gary, please be there. I will be there from 8am.���.
Rocker Gary Glitter Convicted Of Sex Abuse : The Two-Way.
British pop star Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London, on Thursday. A jury convicted Glitter, born Paul Gadd, of sex offences in the 1970s and 80s against girls between the ages of 8��.
Former UK Pop Star Gary Glitter Charged With Child Sex Offences
Former British pop star Gary Glitter, famous for his figure-hugging shiny silver all-in-one suits and platform shoes, was charged on Thursday with eight sexual offences against two teenage girls dating back to the 1970s.
GARY GLITTER trial: Screaming fans stopped me walking down.
Gary Glitter trial: Screaming fans stopped me walking down the street. Paul Gadd, better known as the former rock star, describes Glittermania era of 1970s when giving evidence at child sex offence trial. Gary Glitter Paul��.
GARY GLITTER found GUILTY of sex attacks against young girls.
DISGRACED former pop star Gary Glitter faces dying behind bars after being found guilty of a string of historic sex offences.
Gary Glitter will spend up to 16 years in jail �� TheJournal.ie
FORMER GLAM ROCKER Gary Glitter has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after being convicted of the rape of sexual assault of three schoolgirls. Glitter, 70, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was convicted of the attempted��.