He died last year, but now stands accused of molesting over 200 teenage girls during his lifetime, many of them on the premises of the BBC.
Jimmy Savile was very famous in England, and is described as the UK equivalent of Dick Clark.
This occurred over decades, and it is unclear why there were no reports of this and no criminal investigations against him while he was alive, especially since much of the abuse occurred at the BBC itself.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/...dal/index.html