Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter is facing bankruptcy after he failed to pay more than half a million pounds to a woman he raped when she was just 12 years old.
The 80-year-old, real name Paul Francis Gadd, is currently in prison serving a 16-year sentence imposed in 2015 for sex crimes between 1975 and 1980.
Last year, Gadd was ordered by a High Court judge to pay £508,000 to one of the victims to compensate her for long-term suffering and damage to her ability to work.
But he has failed to pay the money, and solicitors for the woman, Slater and Gordon, launched enforcement action at Torquay and Newton Abbot County Court.
It has now emerged that last month Gadd was made effectively bankrupt, and a trustee has been appointed to take over his estate which includes a £2million London penthouse.
Assets can then be used to pay the compensation that is owed.
The former Glam rock star was set free from prison in February 2023, but within weeks he was caught breaching his licence and sent back to jail.
The Parole Board reconsidered his case for freedom in February last year, and found Gadd shows a "lack of victim empathy" and continues to have a sexual interest in young girls.
Denying him a fresh release on licence, the Board heard he has failed to engage with courses in prison aimed at rehabilitation, and a probation officer assessed him as unfit for release because of the danger he continues to pose to children.
Gadd was jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for abusing two girls aged 11 and 12. He served two and a half years in prison before returning to the UK in 2008.
After the revelations about Jimmy Savile, Gadd was one of the first suspects in the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Yewtree, which looked into historic sex crimes in the showbiz industry.
He reportedly continues to earn money in royalties from plays of his music.
