Author Harris is keeping busy as ‘Lizzy’

ROLF Harris’ new novels will be released under a pseudonym. Drafts of the first book, seen by the Daily Star Sunday, are written in the name of Elizabeth King.

It is thought that the disgraced entertainer, who served three years behind bars for indecently assaulting four girls, hopes to avoid his convictions scuppering sales.

We told last week that what appears to be the first novel, called The Girl Who Ran Away With The Butcher’s Dog, opens with a girl “in nothing but her birthday suit, freezing and naked” while a man sketches her portrait. A family friend told the Daily Star Sunday: “The reason they’re using ‘Elizabeth King’ is down to the fact of Rolf’s notoriety. “Presumably publishers would feel more comfortable not splashing his name all over as well.

“There’s been talk of giving the material ‘a feminine edge’ so that it would read more like a woman has written it, in the hope that it would make the more risqué scenes more acceptable somehow.” Harris, 87, was freed in May 2017 after being jailed for his assault on the girls, one of whom was aged just seven or eight at the time.

He is believed to have a publisher on-board for a three-book deal. Further chapters of what is thought to be the first novel go into the nude portrait in more detail.

The young, naked girl is asked to move her body in various ways for the artist, before standing up so he can capture her bottom for “later on tonight”.

Harris initially found fame as an artist, appearing in 1953 on a BBC cartoon show.