Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris stripped of Australian honors

One of Australia's most well known entertainers, the disgraced Rolf Harris, has been stripped of his Australian honors on Monday having been convicted of sexually assaulting four girls in the United Kingdom.

Harris is currently serving five years and nine months behind bars after being convicted for 12 cases of assault on four girls, one of which was as young as seven or eight, between 1968 and 1986.

Following the verdict, which was reached eight months ago, Australia's governor general, Peter Cosgrove, announced that the 84-year-old will be stripped of all Australian honors.

"It is notified that the governor general has terminated the appointment of Officer and Member of the Order of Australia in the General Division made to Mr Rolf Harris," Cosgrove said in a statement on Monday.

Harris had already lost his place in the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2008, while he was stripped of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship that he was awarded in 2012.

It is also expected that he will lose his CBE, one step below a knighthood, that he was given in 2006.

Harris, born in Australia, moved to the United Kingdom in 1952 and grew in popularity following a diverse career spanning across music, comedy, acting and painting.

He was arrested in March 2013. Endi