By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter, at Southwark Crown Court
Entertainer Rolf Harris "mesmerised" his victims with his fame and talent before sexually assaulting them, a jury has heard.
Harris, 84, who is facing 12 counts of indecent assault, was described by prosecutor Sasha Wass QC in her closing speech as being a man of "deviant sexual behaviour".
Drawing on his fame as an entertainer for more than 50 years, Ms Wass told the jury of six men and six women his celebrity status was no excuse for his behaviour.
Reminding them of how he had burst into song during his evidence last month, she said: "All men are equal in the eyes of the law, you cannot buy your way out, you cannot bully your way out and you certainly cannot sing your way out of a criminal charge."
She also explained how the police investigation into Harris had "uncovered more and more women" who had been abused in the "seemingly untouchable world of the famous children's entertainer".
Ms Wass said the prosecution had "no doubt" of Harris's guilt, adding the evidence against him was "compelling" and that the victims had "no motive in making it up".
She said: "It has never been acceptable for an older man, in particular one with responsibility over children, to abuse them.
"They suffered a dreadful set of experiences at the hands of Rolf Harris and neither fame, age, wealth or talent provide any excuse for this behaviour."
Ms Wass said Harris was "arrogant, brazen and didn't believe he would be challenged" as he carried out the alleged assaults over a period of almost 20 years.
She said: "There is a strikingly similar pattern of deviant behaviour. How he treats women of all ages as objects for him to abuse and take advantage of when trapped and they could not get away."
Earlier she had described his technique of molesting women by saying: "Mr Harris started with a bear hug and then rapidly moved his hands over their bodies. They were trapped and then the sexual assaults very suddenly and very swiftly took place."
She dismissed Harris's defence as a "smoke screen and a red herring" also labelling it as "spurious" - in particular his claims that a make up artist could not have been groped by him because he is allergic to face powder.
Ms Wass said: "The accounts they (victims) give paint a picture like Rolf Harris pictures, each stroke is vague or unclear but put together you can identify what happens."
She also compared him to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, reminded the jury that Harris had admitted "being good at concealing his dark side".
Referring to the main victim, the best friend of his daughter Bindi, Ms Wass said "there was no place in which she felt safe, not even her own home".
Ms Wass said that Harris used the victim even in her late twenties for his "own sexual gratification, like she was a blow up doll" as she had been "dehumanised" by him.
Harris, dressed in a blue pinstriped suit and tie, listened to proceedings via a hearing loop as his wife Alwyn and daughter looked on from the public gallery.
He denies 12 counts of indecent assault on four girls and women aged between seven or eight years old and 19.
The trial continues with the jury expected to retire next week.
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