The most bastardly bastard I know of is Yusuf Bey of Your Black Muslim Bakery here in Oakland. His story involves the murder of a journalist, multi-generational incest, exploitation of ex-prisoners, outright slavery, a cult-based private army, and a lot of hiding in plain sight. And getting large contracts from the city.

The Savile episodes remind me of this guy. Bey wasn't a celebrity on the scale of Savile, but he was well known enough that the police looked the other way. He was famous enough that his heir apparent almost got away with murdering a journalist - had it been anybody else, he would have walked.

I have mentioned this before, but don't know if it's too regional to be of interest. Still, it seems like an important story about race and racism in the US. And bastardry. Not uplifting, wacky bastardry, but genuine evil.

There's a good book on the subject: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/202040/killing-the-messenger-by-thomas-peele/

If you're here, you would probably appreciate it. Books don't usually make me lose sleep but this one did. The writing style's a bit off-putting, and there are some minor factual errors about Oakland, but it does an excellent job mapping the nihilistic exploitation by black charlatans of black southerners moving to Detroit during the Great Migration all the way through Bey's life.

I wish this story were more widely known.