Former singer Gary Glitter, 80, has been ordered to pay over $640,000 in compensation to a woman he abused when she was just a child.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, rose to fame in the 1970s as a glam-rock star but later was convicted multiple times for crimes against children.
In 2015, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for assaulting three girls in the 1970s. One of these victims, who was 12 years old when abused, sued Gadd in the High Court of London, resulting in the compensation decision.
Judge Amanda Tipples awarded the victim, now 60 years old, $647,730 in compensation. Gadd was not present at the hearing and was not represented by lawyers.
Gary Glitter has previously been imprisoned in 1999 for possession of inappropriate child content and faced several other convictions, including a four-year sentence in Vietnam for indecent acts with two girls. Recently, he lost an appeal for parole.
Source: New York Post
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