[Livia]

Originally Posted by The Mockinator

It depends if he threatened them or whatever, also aswell he was a powerful man in the Showbiz world and everyone knows that if your famous you don't get into much trouble with the law so they probably gave up pressing charges at the time.

People keep saying what a powerful man he was, and maybe he was in the area of charity fundraising... but in the last, certainly ten years, he became a bit of a joke. If he was so all-powerful, how did Louis Theroux manage to make such a mockery of him during his documentary and get away with it?

Also, it's not true to say if you're famous you don't get into trouble. Ask George Michael... Ask Hugh Grant... Ask Boy George... Ask any of those people richer and more famous that Jimmy who've fallen foul of the law.

The police do not "give up pressing charges". The Crown Prosecution Service decides which cases will go court based on the evidence. If there's a reliable witness willing to press charges, it's easier to get a prosecution, but sadly, while he was alive, there were no reliable witnesses willing to give evidence.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Livia

If he was so all-powerful, how did Louis Theroux manage to make such a mockery of him during his documentary and get away with it?

maybe he was just grateful not to be called a child molester?