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April 20th, 2013 
The Sun newspaper in Britain is reporting that Australian entertainer Rolf Harris was arrested in March in relation to sex abuse claims.
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ROLF Harris performed alongside some of the biggest rock acts of the past 50 years, but his behaviour around young female fans has always been regarded as impeccable.
In several interviews and in his autobiography, the entertainer joked about being flirtatious around beautiful women, but he kept his distance from groupies – even when his rock star peers were throwing caution to the wind in his presence.
Even the 1960s didn’t swing for the Australian entertainer.
“For me it was all rather unnerving,” he wrote of the groupies who flocked to concerts, where he shared the bill with other top acts.
“There were semi-clad young women in dressing rooms, shower stalls, wardrobes and on tables. I tried not to watch – or be seen watching – but it wasn’t easy.
“I spent most of my time reading the same page of a book 14 times before realising I was holding it upside down,” he joked.
“A part of me wanted the courage to get involved, but I was petrified. I was almost twice the age of the young blokes and I was married. And I kept asking myself, ‘How did I miss out on all of this when I was their age?’
“Yet the sheer mindlessness of it all threatened to shatter my illusions about women.”
Harris’s popularity with children in Britain and Australia also made in him the perfect ambassador for kids charities and causes, which he supported. He produced a video that was shown in schools throughout the UK in the 1980s teaching children how to deal with sexual, physical or emotional abuse.
The video, titled Kids Can Say No, was commissioned by the UK National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
In 1986, WA education chiefs discussed with Harris producing a similar video for children here.
Thousands of his fans from around the world sent the 83-year-old messages of support on social media sites – friends describing him as the “perfect gentleman” – on Friday after UK newspaper The Sun named Harris as the Australian entertainer arrested last month by UK detectives on suspicion of sexual assault.
He was bailed to appear before police in May. He vehemently denies the allegations.
Harris answered the intercom to reporters at his home on Friday.
Asked about the accusations he said only: “No comment.”
He has overcome previous dark periods in his life. He was diagnosed with clinical depression in 1993 after his Cartoon Club show was axed by TV bosses and he feared his career was at an end. But the Australian, regarded in a Time magazine poll as one of the top five entertainers of the 20th century, came back stronger than ever.
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