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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jimmy Savile.md

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+category: "Organized Crime"
 tags:
   - Person
-  - BBC_Personality
-  - Child_Abuser
-  - UK
-  - 1970s
-  - 1980s
-  - Operation_Yewtree
-  - VIP_Network
+  - OrganizedCrime
+summary: "Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the BBC."
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 Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the [[BBC]]. After his death, allegations of sexual abuse surfaced, with "first a few, then many, and finally too many to ignore." The investigation into Savile was launched by Metropolitan Police as [[Operation Yewtree]], which despite being framed as an investigation into Savile, was actually an investigation into the BBC and his associates who could still face prosecution since Savile himself was dead.[^1]
 
 Savile's personal chauffeur, [[David Smith]], was a convicted pedophile with 22 prior convictions who worked for the BBC transporting guests to and from the studios during the 1980s. Smith was the first person to face charges under Operation Yewtree and was found dead at his flat in Lewisham, south east London, on Monday, the day before he was due to go on trial accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in 1984. According to victim testimony, Smith got victims BBC passes and introduced them to scores of stars, including fellow pedophile Jimmy Savile, taking them to sets of Saturday Superstore and Top of the Pops.[^2]