Date of Birth
6 December 1944,
London, England, UK
Birth Name
Kenneth George King
Trivia
Convicted of sexually abusing boys in September 2001 and imprisoned for a total of seven years. Freed in March 2005.
When he was a young man at Charterhouse school in England he had a budding music career. He was known as a big man on campus, who was looked up to by amateur musicians. While there he was "discovered" and named the band Genesis. After a very short run as their manager he passed them along to another management company. Of course the band went on to become a huge success many years later, spawning the solo careers of Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.
Presented with the Music Industry Trusts' Award in 1997 for his outstanding contribution to the British music industry.
He produced the first Genesis album, "From Genesis to Revelation", and his company still owns the rights to it. Despite naming the band and securing their first recording deal, he earns nothing from subsequent Genesis releases.
Personal Quotes
I have always been anti-establishment, and to be accepted by any establishment is offensive to me.
Celebrity provokes fantasies, particularly when guided by saturation coverage in the media. The tabloids are 99% entertainment, 1% information. It seems the mere mention of my name provokes hysteria. The truth is, being described as a 'vile pervert' means absolutely nothing to me.
I've found prison a most enlightening, enjoyable and fascinating experience. Like boarding school without the sex. There's a whole world in there, packed with nice, horrid, average and extraordinary people, a way of life unknown to the majority of us.
You meet fascinating people and get to see the other side of the world, one that you never knew existed. Like most people, I had the view that once the prison gate slams shut, hell takes place, but the reality couldn't be further from the truth. I have had no complaints at all about my time inside, apart from the food at Broadmoor.
I've had a brilliant three-and-a-half years for crimes I did not commit. I'm innocent of the charges against me. There is no issue of the acts being consensual, there were no acts. However much people try, you can't bend the truth. There's no truth in the offenses whatsoever. One of the five men I am accused of abusing I have never even met and there is no evidence I ever did meet him.
Jonathan King
Jonathan King leaves the Old Bailey ...
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