PAEDO ROCKER
Inside paedo Gary Glitter’s glam rock fortune and huge net worth as he’s freed from jail
PAEDO rocker Gary Glitter amassed sickening wealth during his career as one of the biggest stars of the 1970s.
The 78-year-old, released from prison on Friday, was caged in 2015 for attempted rape and four counts of indecent assault.
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The sicko had sex with a girl under 13 and his youngest victim was less than ten when he crept into her bed and tried to rape her in 1975.
By 1975, sicko Glitter had sold 18 million records.
But he no longer owns the master rights to his songs — meaning he no longer receives any royalties for them.
In 2019, his song Rock and Roll Part 2 featured in movie The Joker but rights holders insisted he would not receive any royalties.
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Golden Globe winning film Silver Linings Playbook featured the same song as Joker in its trailer.
Tech giant HP used a cover of Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah) in US ads.
His songs are believed to be blacklisted on all UK radio stations, but stations in the US still play them.
The paedo also owns a luxury top-floor flat in a Victorian red-brick mansion block near Baker Street, London.
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The vacant flat - thought to be worth £2million - has not been in his name since he was arrested in Vietnam in 2006.
The home - which residents in the block say lay empty during his incarceration - is controlled by a former associate through a company.
Glitter had a lovechild - Gary Pantoja Sosa, believed to be 22 - with former farm girl Yudania Sosa Martinez in Cuba in 2001.
The paedo, whose never met his son, was a frequent visitor to the Communist island in the 1990s, then a sex tourism destination.
RELEASE
Glitter was freed on Friday morning under the cover of darkness.
He spent the last eight years in HMP The Verne which had a £3.3million makeover to become a Category C jail solely to house perverts.
Prisoners reportedly have 20-inch flat screen TVs, tea making facilities in their cells, and can walk freely around their wing 24 hours a day.
A source told : “It’s like a holiday camp in there.
"To think some of these people have raped children, the public would be disgusted to see how they live."
Glitter's paedophilia first came to light in 1997 when he was caught with 4,000 images of child sexual abuse.
He was first locked up in 1999 for downloading images of child abuse.
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Glitter was then caged in Vietnam in 2006 for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12 before being released in 2008.
The singer was then jailed in the UK in 2015 for 16 years for at the height of his fame between 1975 and 1980.
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