“Whatever is said after I’m gone is irrelevant.”

—  Jimmy Savile

Jimmy Savile in: " No shame: Call me a pervert when I'm dead, I really don't care - Jimmy Savile, the lost interview http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-call-pervert-im-1378561," in: The Sunday Times, 14 October 2012

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