Late paedophile Rolf Harris‘ personal firm has finally been wound up two years after his death – giving his family a £1.2million pay day and lumping HMRC with a £122k refund bill.
The disgraced TV star set up RHE Investments to handle a substantial part of his multi-million fortune in 2012.
Now liquidators have given notice that the firm will be officially closed on 25 July.
The wind up process began five months after he died in May 2023 and now that it’s being dissolved it means a nice lump sum for his niece, Jennifer Harris, who lives in Australia.
His niece stood by him when he faced indecent assault charges, and she moved to close the company and signed the Declaration of Solvency from Sydney.
She also attended numerous court hearings with Harris and is a director of two of his companies.
The final report was filed yesterday, April 25, with around £1.2million going to Jennifer after paying liquidator and accountant fees of £9k.
But the company was also due a refund for £127,474 from HMRC.
Disgraced TV star Rolf Harris (above) set up RHE Investments to handle a substantial part of his multi-million fortune in 2012 – and liquidators have given notice that the firm will be officially closed on 25 July
Now that it’s being dissolved it means a nice lump sum for his niece, Jennifer Harris (above, right) who lives in Australia – she stood by him when he faced indecent assault charges, moved to close the company and signed the Declaration of Solvency from Sydney
Harris and wife Alwen (above, left) had been directors but resigned in 2015 – he left most of his £16million estate to his only child Bindi after dying aged 93
This is because an overdrawn director’s loan of £392k was paid back in full so any corporation tax paid on that sum has to be refunded.
Harris and wife Alwen had also been directors but resigned in 2015.
He left most of his £16million estate to his only child Bindi after dying aged 93.
Harris’s death certificate revealed that he died of ‘metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of neck’ – the medical term for neck cancer – and ‘frailty of old age’.
He had been struggling to talk after cancerous tumours grew in his neck after he was freed from jail in 2017 for a string of sex offences including children as young as eight. He was fed through a tube before his death.
The Australian-born TV presenter was a family favourite for decades before being convicted of a string of indecent assaults in June 2014.
These included one on an eight-year-old autograph hunter, two on girls in their early teens and a catalogue of abuse against his daughter’s friend over 16 years.
He was jailed for five years and nine months after being convicted of 12 assaults which took place between 1968 and 1986.
