Gary Glitter has been declared bankrupt after the paedophile pop star refused to pay a six-figure compensation to one of his victims.
Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, was ordered last year to pay £508,800 damages to a woman he abused when she was aged 12.
The disgraced rocker, 80, has now been made bankrupt after her lawyers at Slater and Gorden filed an enforcement order to the High Court, reported The Mirror.
Glitter is listed on the insolvency register under his real name with the case details confirming his bankruptcy was declared at Torquay and Newton Abbot county court on March 20.
Trustees could now be appointed to seize Glitter’s assets and use them to pay for the compensation figure.
The woman took legal action against Glitter following his 2015 conviction for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980.
She previously secured a ‘default judgment’ in her claim – a ruling in her favour over Glitter’s liability – and last June Mrs Justice Tipples said the woman was entitled to damages of £508,800.
Mrs Justice Tipples said the woman brought the legal action after being repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by Glitter, as well as being ‘humiliated and coercively controlled’ by the singer.
She added in a 13-page ruling: ‘There is no doubt that the claimant was subject to sexual abuse of the most serious kind by the defendant when she was only 12 years old and that has had very significant adverse impact on the rest of her life.’
The judge said the six-figure-sum includes £381,000 in lost earnings and £7,800 for future therapy and treatment.
Mrs Justice Tipples said the victim had suffered ‘psychological injury and losses’ due to Glitter’s abuse.
The judge said: ‘The claimant said that she felt totally ashamed and she would scrub herself in the bath daily and this included, on occasion, using a pumice stone to ‘scrub her face off’, and she did not care what she looked like. The claimant just did not want to look like herself.
‘The claimant did not tell anyone in her family what happened to her as she was worried that she would bring shame on them all and she thought her family would not love her any more if they knew.’
At an earlier hearing in March last year, the High Court in London heard the woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – has been unable to work for several decades.
Her barrister Jonathan Metzer said Glitter’s abuse had a ‘dramatic and terrible impact’ on her education, work and personal relationships.
Glitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls. His sentence expires in February 2031.
He was then automatically released from HMP The Verne – a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset – in February 2023 after serving half of his 16-year fixed-term determinate sentence.
But just six weeks after weeks after walking free, he was dramatically taken back for breaching his licence conditions by allegedly viewing downloaded images of children.
Richard Scorer, head of abuse law at Slater & Gordon who acts for the woman, said after the judgment: ‘In making this award, the court has properly acknowledged the appalling abuse suffered by my client.
‘Whilst no amount of money can make up for horrific sexual abuse, the award at least goes some way to recognising the devastation inflicted on my client throughout her childhood and adult life.
‘Gadd’s refusal to engage with the process merely proves his utter lack of remorse, something we will be reminding the parole board about if he makes another application for early release.
‘We will be pursuing Gadd for payment and will continue to support our client through this process.’