Jimmy Savile

A new Netflix docu-series chronicles the career and crimes of the British celebrity and sexual abuser.

Onscreen warnings are there, but it is still sickening to realize the full extent of his crimes, as those who exposed him try to be measured but blunt about the monster. What’s beyond chilling is how easily he connected with children and how TV programs he did with children became the hallmark of his success. “Everyone was bedazzled by him,” says one of the first people to suspect he preyed on children. By the time he died, he was connected in some capacity to 50 institutions where children received care. Savile began as a radio DJ, good with the patter and prattle about pop music that made DJs into stars in the 1960′s. He worked very hard at it and was a gifted broadcaster who easily made the transition to TV. What he had, and he knew it, was an authenticity that the BBC needed at that time. To say the monster was hiding in plain sight is a vast understatement.

Netflix released "Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story" on Wednesday. The docuseries includes letters between Prince Charles and the sexual predator.

"You are so good at understanding what makes people operate and you're wonderfully sceptical and practical," Charles wrote to Savile on April 16, 1990, according to the docuseries. He showed it to HM [Her Majesty]." It contained guidance for how the royal family should respond to crises, including creating an "incident room" and going through the Queen before making public statements. A new Netflix documentary includes letters that appear to show that Jimmy Savile, a longtime BBC star and prolific sexual abuser, was an unofficial adviser to Prince Charles for 20 years. "I have a dreadful feeling that the office doesn't consult you before each programme meeting." In a note dated January 2, 1989, Charles indicated that he wanted his office to "consult" Savile before meetings.

Netflix Crime Documentary series, "Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story" documents the most famous and controversial DJ of all time.

Jimmy called himself a monster, a villain, but the world thought that it was just his idiosyncratic way of being humble about what he had been able to accomplish through his charitable work. The anonymous writer was a victim too, and accused Jimmy of being a “deeply committed pedophile.” Jimmy was not your usual DJ. He was a beacon of hope and light. He heard the story of the ceiling and the floor collapsing and decided to help them. He gave to the underprivileged and benefited the privileged at the same time. Such was the reputation and aura of the man that the victims were forced to question themselves. You had to believe that Jimmy was a godsend. People wanted to believe that he was a savior, and they were not ready to hear any other contrasting opinions. Jimmy had ceased to be just a DJ; he was a man of influence. He always had a veil in front of him, and nobody was allowed to get a sneak peek. Making this world a better place to live in was Jimmy’s mission, and he was a philanthropist of the highest order. He was a savior for some, a conjuror for others.

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He made his millions having rose to fame in a career spanning decades in the entertainment industry in the UK. The Jim’ll Fix It and Top Of The Pops presenter had raised millions of pounds for charity, been knighted by the Queen and achieved national treasure status up until his death. Jimmy Savile is buried in a gold coffin at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough, at at 45-degree angle at facing the sea, at his own request so he could continue to look out across his favourite view from the grave. We have done so because of the impact the stone remaining there could have on the dignity and sanctity of the cemetery”. He left the remainder, and the bulk of his estate, to the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust which he had established in 1985. It was confirmed that 214 of the reports would have been criminal offences if they were reported at the time. He wasn’t ever caught for his crimes during his lifetime – despite there being two police investigations that considered reports about him while he was still alive – with the earliest known probe being as far back as 1958.

Following his death, nearly 500 people accused former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile of sex abuse.

He adds, "We're not suggesting for one moment that Thatcher or Prince Charles knew what he was really up to. Savile's popularity among the royals and other prominent figures help mask his true nature. Savile was a serial predator: In the immediate aftermath of his death at age 84, police investigated nearly 500 allegations of abuse. Charles wrote in a letter to Savile. But his public persona hid the threat he posed to the many young girls who came under his gaze. But all along, he had been a serial sex abuser and pedophile — which came to light publicly after his 2011 death.

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You’ll need a Netflix account to watch the programme. I think that isn’t the case. “And I think that’s unhelpful because I don’t think the archive material or footage brought that out. The Queen should be informed in advance of any proposed action by family members.” Of course it only affects the community in a very small way.” On 14 January 1987, the Prince of Wales wrote to Savile: “Perhaps I am wrong, but you are the bloke who knows what’s going on.

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We may never know the true extent of his crimes. Many argue that the true tally of Savile’s crimes exceeds well over 200. And when I say young, I mean the proper age. On the show, friends of Savile appear to give their own insights into his life - with one claiming he has ‘an eye for the ladies, young ones as well. Forensic Psychologist Kerry Daynes added: "He’s got the smoke and mirrors in place. He explained: "Why have a banana prepared in your pocket?

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Savile actually led the series’ special task; in which the celebrities had to fix items around the house alongside him. Although viewers may be led to believe he appeared as a housemate, this wasn’t actually the case. Each of them wanted a chance to meet him – but what exactly was Savile doing on Big Brother in the first place?

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I met one of the executives, who told me he was amazed to see Savile sitting in the corner and even more amazed when the Prince introduced him as his adviser on health. My own association with Savile began in the 1970s when I was a teenager. It made me reconsider what I had seen at Duncroft. Was a middle-aged DJ taking 14 and 15-year-old girls for a ride in his Rolls really just innocent fun? What local police officer was going to bust a friend of the royals and the PM on the word of any vulnerable 14-year-old girl who claimed to have been sexually abused by him? In retrospect, it is truly frightening that our next King regarded Savile as a 'sort of mentor'. He may have believed that being seen with Savile was a shortcut to achieving that. 'Dear Jimmy, I can't tell you how grateful I am for the most useful assistance you...provided for my speech in the Guildhall the other day. But what did the Prince of Wales get out of his association? The Queen should be informed in advance of any proposed action by family members.' But there was a darker side to the star of Jim'll Fix It...' Charles was key to Savile's standing. Charles was key to Savile's standing.

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An investigation by the NHS revealed that Savile sexually assaulted patients and staff at 28 different hospitals. Another noted how Savile would repeatedly make jokes about being an abuser but they were laughed off: “This Jimmy Savile doc is insane… “So his story (Savile that is) makes me shudder at what other rich famous white men have done.

In Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, producers say Jimmy Savile was an unofficial public relations advisor to Prince Charles.

In another letter dated July 4, 1991, Charles writes, "Dear Jimmy, I can’t tell you how grateful I am for the most useful assistance you...provided for my speech in the Guildhall the other day." In hindsight, that was catastrophic." In a note from Charles to Saville, he says he showed the memo on disasters to Prince Philip and his father, in turn, showed it to Queen Elizabeth. Can you cast an eye over this draft and let me know how you think we can best appeal to people on this score?" I so want to get to parts of the country that others don’t get to reach." English media personality Sir Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of victims throughout his life.

The BBC star, who was later unmasked as Britain's worst paedophile, acted as Prince Charles' 'unofficial chief advisor' and penpal while fostering a ...

He also used access to vulnerable children and adults to abuse, including in the NHS I so want to get to parts of the country that others don't get to reach.' A request to tap Savile's influence and connections to form a 'list of suggestions... Savile was asked to guide the future king between 1986 and 2006 on matters from public speeches to family matters. It would later emerge that the paedophile DJ attacked 60 NHS patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital alone, where he was given his own private bedroom and 24 hour access to all wards. And between 2010 and 2015 he he had 47 meetings with Cabinet ministers and 21 with junior ministers – at a rate of more than one a month. Charles also asked Savile, who was knighted in 1990, to advise his sister in law Sarah, the Duchess of York and her gaffe-prone husband Prince Andrew. It emerged after Savile's death that he also reportedly counselled Charles in the late 1980s as his marriage to Diana was failing badly. Of course it only affects the community in a very small way.' Prince Charles' personal correspondence with Savile, then the Jim'll Fix It presenter and arguably the most famous man in Britain at that time, has been described as 'catastrophic' and a 'terrible reflection' on him. And he saw Jimmy Savile as his conduit to that. Patients and staff working on the NHS wards in Buckinghamshire said they would see royals 'all the time', including Princess Diana, who would join Savile for regular visits.

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"The consequence of that was that it gave him a seal of approval in the eyes of the British public," Deacon said. "Can't help feeling that it would be extremely useful to her if you could. ) to Savile crafting a media relations handbook that Charles said was shown to the Queen and Prince Philip. Charles also reached out seeking guidance on how to deal with specific incidents, such as when Prince Andrew made insensitive comments regarding the 1988 Lockerbie disaster, a terrorist plane bombing that killed everyone aboard, and 11 people on the ground. He showed it to HM [Her Majesty]." "What I really need is a list of suggestions from you.

Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story will unveil how he got away with being a serial abuser of women and children for many decades.

The earliest reported incident was the rape of a 13-year-old girl at Lime Grove studios in 1959. After his death, he was exposed as a sexual predator, with over 450 sickening allegations of abuse.” February: The Dame Janet Smith report comes back, finding that staff at the BBC missed numerous opportunities to stop him. 9 December: The CPS tells Jones they did not pursue the Surrey case due to lack of evidence, not because he was too old. The latest one was in 2006 at the last recording of Top of the Pops. Nearly three-quarters of them were under 18, thirty-four rapes were reported across 28 police forces. “As a result of his celebrity, his volunteering, and his fundraising he had exceptional access to a number of NHS hospitals and took the opportunities that that access gave him to abuse patients, staff and others on a remarkable scale. It concluded that it was widely known at the hospital that Savile was a “sex pest”. However, it said “We have no way of proving Savile’s claims that he interfered with the bodies of the deceased patients in the mortuary in this way”. His abuse at Leeds General Infirmary, where he was a volunteer porter, and at Stoke Mandeville hospital, where he also volunteered, and at the BBC started in 1965, according to records. Jimmy Savile was one of the biggest TV stars in the UK from the 1960s to the 1990s, and he was known for TV shows such as Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It. The first recorded incidence of abuse occurred in Manchester in 1955, when he was the manager of a dance hall.

The programme explores the disgraced entertainer's relationship with the public, members of the royal family and celebrity culture.

I think that isn’t the case. And I think that we need to look at that in order to understand how perpetrators behave and how this happened.” “And I think that’s unhelpful because I don’t think the archive material or footage brought that out.

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In a handwritten note to Savile, Charles later wrote: “I attach a copy of my memo on disasters, which incorporates your points and which I showed to my father. The producers believe that followed an incident in which Prince Andrew made insensitive comments about the Lockerbie bombing during a visit to the disaster site in 1988. Some of that advice was then incorporated in a note prepared for the Queen, the Times reported.

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Savile’s ability to continue to pursue his activities without effective challenge was aided by fragmented hospital management arrangements.” For those in the UK, this roughly translates to Savile being worth about £7 million. Some of his friends and family received small amounts of money after being named in the will, with the rest of the money and most of his estate donated to the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust, which he founded in 1985.

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In the years following, hundreds of allegations were made against Saville. In 2011 Surrey police confirmed it had investigated “a historic allegation of indecent assault…alleged to have occurred at a children’s home in Staines in the 1970s”. In 2012, the Metropolitan Police launched a formal criminal investigation, called Operation Yewtree, into historic allegations of child sexual abuse by Savile and other individuals. Since his death in October 2011, a string of official inquiries have been launched into his offending at hospitals, schools and the BBC. After his death, more and more people started coming forward saying they had been abused by Jimmy Savile. His nephew, Roger Foster, said at the time he had “passed away quietly in his sleep during the night”. He had been in hospital with pneumonia for a short time before. There were seven investigations into him prior to his death, but police couldn’t connect the dots and struggled without the national crime database – which came into operation in 2010. He rose to prominence in a career spanning decades in the entertainment industry, had raised millions for charity, been knighted by the Queen and achieved national treasure status before his death. After he died in 2011, hundreds of survivors of his abuse came forward to share their stories and he is now believed to be one of the most prolific sex offenders to have ever lived.

Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story will unveil how he got away with being a serial abuser of women and children for many decades.

The earliest reported incident was the rape of a 13-year-old girl at Lime Grove studios in 1959. February: The Dame Janet Smith report comes back, finding that staff at the BBC missed numerous opportunities to stop him. 9 December: The CPS tells Jones they did not pursue the Surrey case due to lack of evidence, not because he was too old. After his death, he was exposed as a sexual predator, with over 450 sickening allegations of abuse.” The latest one was in 2006 at the last recording of Top of the Pops. “As a result of his celebrity, his volunteering, and his fundraising he had exceptional access to a number of NHS hospitals and took the opportunities that that access gave him to abuse patients, staff and others on a remarkable scale. It concluded that it was widely known at the hospital that Savile was a “sex pest”. Nearly three-quarters of them were under 18, thirty-four rapes were reported across 28 police forces. However, it said “We have no way of proving Savile’s claims that he interfered with the bodies of the deceased patients in the mortuary in this way”. His abuse at Leeds General Infirmary, where he was a volunteer porter, and at Stoke Mandeville hospital, where he also volunteered, and at the BBC started in 1965, according to records. Jimmy Savile was one of the biggest TV stars in the UK from the 60s to the 90s, and he was known for TV shows such as Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It. The first recorded incidence of abuse occurred in Manchester in 1955, when he was the manager of a dance hall.

The new Netflix documentary “Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story” explores the famed DJ and TV personality who's been accused of the sexual abuse of over ...

Savile’s missives to both the heir to the throne and the prime minster make eye-opening appearances in Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, as Deacon constructs his portrait from an array of archival material that’s additionally punctuated by conversations with journalists, colleagues, and victims. Margaret Thatcher wrote letters to Queen Elizabeth on his behalf in order to secure him his knighthood (which he received in 1990), and Prince Charles routinely sought his council on a variety of royal affairs. Spearheading the fundraising campaign to repair Stoke Mandeville Hospital (and its acclaimed spinal injuries center), volunteering as a porter at Leeds General Infirmary, and overseeing the management of Broadmoor Hospital, home to dangerous and high-security psychiatric patients—this despite his total lack of medical expertise—Savile cultivated an image as a selfless do-gooder committed to giving back to those most in need. Worse still, he managed to shield that ugly side of himself via the very celebrity that afforded him his opportunities for monstrousness, aided by an establishment—be it the media, the public or the prime minister and royal family—that was all-too-willing to turn a blind eye to the sordid rumors that dogged him for decades. To millions of fans, he was “our Jimmy,” a reputation furthered by his hit series Jim’ll Fix It, in which he made the dreams of young children (who wrote to him) come true on air. On Jim’ll Fix It and Top of the Pops, Savile—recognizable by his mop of long bleach-white hair and trademark cigar—presented himself as equal parts court jester, Northern lad, roguish playboy, and Santa Claus. What truly endeared him to his homeland, however, was his passionate and seemingly altruistic interest in charitable work.

Letters obtained by the filmmakers of Netflix's "Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story" show that Queen Elizabeth II's son sought advice from the radio and ...

"The consequence of that was that it gave him a seal of approval in the eyes of the British public," said Deacon. "It consolidated our trust in him. Nonetheless, that seal of approval meant that the weight of his respect and trust was a planet compared to the tiny voices of the women that popped up every now and then." The documentary noted that since Savile's death, independent investigations and those made by Scotland Yard uncovered that he had been "a prolific and predatory sex offender, abusing hundreds of people, some as young as five." For almost 20 years from 1975, Savile also hosted the hugely popular series "Jim’ll Fix It," in which the broadcaster responded to children’s letters by arranging for their wishes to be realized. Some advice suggested by Savile was later shown to the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. He showed it to HM [Her Majesty]."

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"To date, more than 450 allegations of sexual assault and abuse have been made against him. His funeral was broadcast live on the BBC. Since his death, independent investigations and those made by Scotland Yard uncovered that Savile had been a prolific and predatory sex offender, abusing hundreds of people, some as young as five. To all intents and purposes, he got away with it.