The BBC is about to launch its controversial dramatisation of disgraced TV star Jimmy Savile's life this night.

The broadly well-known and once-beloved presenter was unveiled as one of the crucial prolific intercourse abusers in historical past inside only a few years of his loss of life.

Savile was one of many greatest TV stars within the UK from the Nineteen Sixties to the Nineties, and he was identified for TV reveals reminiscent of Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It.

But after his loss of life in October 2011, aged 84, an ITV documentary revealed many years of horrific sexual abuse by which Savile had used his involvement in organisations reminiscent of charities, hospitals, prisons and the BBC, to abuse a whole lot of susceptible younger women and boys.

After a short while in hospital, Savile died at his penthouse house in Roundhay, Leeds, on October 29, 2011.

He died two days earlier than his eighty fifth birthday. In an interview shortly earlier than he died, Savile stated: "I've got a bounce back-ability, but this time I don't seem to be bouncing back."

In the identical dialogue, he replied to a query about turning 85: "So many women, so little time." He continued smoking cigars till his ultimate hours.

Savile died of pneumonia. His nephew Roger Foster confirming on the time that the paedophile had "passed away quietly in his sleep during the night."

He was buried at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough at a 45-degree angle at his request, in order that he may "have a view of the sea".

His £4,000 gravestone - which learn "it was good while it lasted" - was eliminated by his household after the horrific allegations about his previous emerged.

It additionally reportedly featured the predator smiling and giving a double thumbs up, and was unveiled on September 20, 2012 - 10 months after his loss of life.

But it was additionally lower than a fortnight earlier than ITV unmasked the entertainer as a serial predator and paedophile.

After the revelations got here to mild, the headstone was eliminated underneath police surveilance. But proposals to exhume Savile's physique and have it cremated had been by no means authorised.

So his burial plot nonetheless stays - simply as an unmarked grave.

Savile's profession of horror

By now it's estimated that Savile preyed on as many as 500 susceptible victims. Some had been as younger as two years previous.

The first recorded incident of abuse occurred in Manchester in 1955, when he was the supervisor of a dance corridor.

There had been additionally investigations into his conduct in NHS hospitals, together with Leeds General Infirmary - the place he labored as a porter - and Stoke Mandeville hospital, the place he volunteered.

It is alleged that whereas there he sexually assaulted greater than 60 workers and sufferers aged between 5 and 75 at these hospitals.