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Gary Glitter made bankrupt after failing to pay £500k compensation to victim

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Gary Glitter has been made bankrupt after failing to pay more than 500,000 in damages to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old .

She sued the disgraced singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd , after he was found guilty of attacking her and two other schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980 .

Glitter , 80 , was jailed for 16 years in 2015 and released in 2023 but was recalled to prison less than six weeks later .

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