Rolf makes €1m in jail... and €13 royalties
Shamed Harris SHAMED Rolf Harris pocketed just €13 in royalties in a six-month period while he was behind bars.
But despite being shunned by fans, the 87-year-old former entertainer was still able to rake in €1million from investments.
The windfall is revealed in the accounts of RHE Investments Ltd, a firm he set up in January 2012 – a year before his arrest. Figures
Suits actress Meghan lent a hand on the infamous Skid Row in her hometown of LA.
In 1994 Harry and brother William visited St Vincent Centre in London.
They accompanied their late mother Princess Diana to the centre, which is run by a homeless charity. She also took her boys to homeless housing support charity Centrepoint.
Meghan’s kindness emerged in excerpts from a book, The Game Changers: Success Secrets from Inspirational Women Changing The Game and Influencing The World. Harry at Centrepoint as a boy to June value it at €4million, up by €1million in 12 months.
Harris, thought to have a €17million fortune, quit as a director of the firm in 2015, a year after he was jailed.
But his wife of 59 years, Alwen, is company secretary. His brother Bruce and niece Jennifer also help to administer the firm.
Harris was freed from prison in May after serving three years of a She said: “I started working at a soup kitchen in Skid Row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day I felt really scared. “I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.” But Meghan, 36, who is to wed Harry, 33, at Windsor Castle on May 19, said: “I remember one of my mentors (Mrs Maria Pollia) told me that ‘life is about putting others’ needs above your own fears’. That has always stayed with me.” She went on to become women’s ambassador to the UN. She has also volunteered with charity World Vision on trips to Rwanda and India, and has been called a “true humanitarian”. anna.verdon@trinitymirror.com The couple five year, nine month sentence for sex assaults on women and girls.
He made millions of euros from his paintings and his TV and music work, but has also been a shrewd investor, setting up a range of firms to handle his fortune.
After his conviction he closed several firms, handing the cash to other directors – all in his family.
Documents filed to dissolve Rolf Harris Enterprises Ltd, set up Young Meghan to handle income from his songs, showed it received just €13 in royalties in a six-month period.
Harris’s back catalogue is available on itunes at up to €7 each. One review on the site pleads for them to be removed.
A tell-all memoir about his time behind bars will be blocked in the UK, where he is not allowed to profit from his crimes. But it could be released in his native Australia.