Entertainer Rolf Harris arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London on June 27, 2014. Rolf Harris is charged with 12 counts of indecent assault, and denies the charges.LONDON - Rolf Harris, a mainstay of family entertainment in Britain and Australia for more than 50 years before his career collapsed into disgrace with his conviction for indecently assaulting young girls, has died aged 93.
An artist and musician who first earned fame in the 1950s with the top 10 hit novelty song, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, Harris went on to present prime-time TV shows mostly aimed at children. But as his star faded, the veteran entertainer became one of the highest-profile celebrities to be embroiled in a massive British police investigation which followed revelations that the late BBC TV host Jimmy Savile had been a prolific child abuser.
During the 2014 trial, the prosecution portrayed the bearded, bespectacled entertainer as a predator who groomed and abused one woman for her entire teenage and young-adult life.Harris denied all the charges and said the allegations against him were "laughable". The sentencing judge said he had shown no remorse for the harm he had caused.
A year later, he got a job sketching cartoons on children's television, work that continued through the 1950s while he performed nights, singing comedy songs with a piano accordion, in a club for Australian and New Zealander expatriates.
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