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Gary Glitter in 'Hunting Gary Glitter.' Netflix Netflix has released its first trailer for Hunting Gary Glitter, an investigative docuseries into the disgraced glam rocker’s history of sexually abusing minors.
“It seems to me that when you’re in the public eye, you don’t have secrets anymore,” an interviewer asks the musician, whose legal name is Paul Gadd, in an archival interview used in the trailer. “Yeah, well, I’ve still got a few secrets,” he replies.
The singer was a popular British glam rocker in the 1970s and sang numerous hits like “Do You Wanna Touch Me” and “I Love You Love Me Love.” (His song “Rock N’ Roll, Part 2” appears in the now-famous scene in Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker (2019) where the mentally-ill comic book villain flounces down the stairs in full costume, representing his embrace of his new persona.)
But in 1999, Gadd’s popularity was derailed by numerous allegations of child sexual abuse and subsequent conviction for possession of child pornography. Later, in 2006, he was jailed in Vietnam for the sexual abuse of two girls. In 2015, he was convicted of sexually abusing three additional young girls. In 2023, he was released for a short time on probation before being reincarcerated. Police did not publicly say how he violated the terms of his release.
Hunting Gary Glitter follows the investigative reporters and police investigators who were instrumental in publicizing Glitter’s crimes — including how the rocker used his popularity and fanbase to pursue and abuse multiple girls. According to the trailer, the docuseries also uses first-person interviews to detail Glitter’s original convictions and years hopping from country to country, including Vietnam, Cuba, and Cambodia to avoid prosecution and jail time.
