Alan Jones is rocked by a death close to home – as explosive details of sexual abuse allegations against him are revealed for the first time
EXCLUSIVE
Alan Jones privately mourned the loss of his brother Bob when he was accused of indecently assaulting young men he encountered during his decades-long radio career.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Jones spent much of the past year quietly caring for his ailing older brother, who died on September 8 aged 85.
Jones was arrested at his Circular Quay apartment at 7.45am on November 18 and taken to a Sydney police station, where he was charged with 26 offenses involving nine alleged victims.
The 83-year-old is accused of assaulting the complainants at his harborside apartment, his former homes in Newtown and Fitzroy Falls in the Southern Highlands, and other places in Sydney.
The alleged offenses took place between June 2001 and December 2019 and included allegations that Jones fondled penises, squeezed buttocks and yanked a man’s scrotum.
Jones faces 11 charges of aggravated indecent assault, 11 charges of indecent assault, two charges of sexually touching another person without consent and two charges of common assault.
The youngest of the alleged victims was just 17 when Jones was accused of attacking him, while another was reportedly an Olympic athlete.
Court documents obtained by Nine Newspapers state that police allege Jones “fondled” or “rubbed” the penises of three men.
Alan Jones was still privately mourning the loss of his brother Bob when he was accused of indecently assaulting young men he encountered during his decades-long radio career. He is pictured outside Day Street police station in Sydney on November 18
Other indecent acts alleged against Jones include kissing on the lips and ‘using his tongue’, as well as ‘touching’ [a complainant’s] penis, while pulling on his scrotum’.
Bob Jones, his only brother, did not speak out when the longtime 2GB announcer was first accused of committing indecent acts and was previously reportedly estranged from him.
Robert Charles Jones was one of three children raised by Charlie and Elizabeth Jones on a dairy farm at Acland in Queensland’s Darling Downs, west of Brisbane.
A notice published in the Courier-Mail and Toowoomba Chronicle on September 14 was one of the few public acknowledgments of his death.
“Died peacefully in Tasmania, late Brisbane/Toowoomba,” the message read.
“He is survived by his children… including his brother Alan and sister Colleen. Beloved son of the late Charlie & Elizabeth Jones.”
A funeral was held at Churst Church St Lucia in Brisbane, followed by a wake at St Lucia Golf Club on October 19.
Son Ashley posted a tribute to his father on Instagram: ‘Vale to our very beloved Poppy Bob. Your humor and love of life will be missed.”
Alan Jones spent the past year quietly caring for his ailing older brother, who died on September 8 at the age of 85. He is pictured at the Cruising Yacht Club in Rushcutters Bay following the funeral of a family friend on August 27
Robert Charles Jones was one of three children raised by Charlie and Elizabeth Jones on a dairy farm at Acland in Queensland’s Darling Downs, west of Brisbane.
In the last year of Bob’s life, Jones coordinated his brother’s care, visiting to check on him and then helping to organize his funeral.
Jones has no children of his own, but is godfather to the descendants of many family and friends and has a particularly close bond with niece Tonia Taylor, his sister Colleen’s daughter.
Journalist Chris Masters wrote in his 2006 biography Jonestown that brother Bob was “more like his unpretentious bushie father” than the man who wrote speeches for Prime Minister Malclom Fraser and coached the Wallabies.
‘Although [Bob] has remained proud of Alan’s achievements for a lifetime, it appears they were not kindred spirits and did not maintain close contact,” Masters wrote at the time.
‘Beyond the boundaries of loyalty and family, friends discovered an inexplicable distance.’
Daily Mail Australia understands this changed later in Bob’s life.
Masters quoted Bob in a passage in which he recalled that Jones won a schoolboy cross-country race in record time against a field of competitors more athletically gifted than he.
“Alan may have looked like a wimp, but inside he was as strong as steel,” Bob said.
Jones followed Bob to Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College in Brisbane, where he acquired an elegant social persona that Bob described as “debonair”.
His teaching career included a spell at the King’s School in Parramatta, where Jones coached rugby and led the First XV to a GPS premiership in 1974.
Club coaching roles followed before Jones took charge of the national team. He later became Sydney’s talkback radio king.
Jones retired from 2GB in May 2020, but hosted a program on digital network ADH TV until health issues forced him off air.
He released a video statement in March denying the allegations.
“I will not elaborate here on the allegations made about me, other than to fully refute them and the inferences attached to them,” Jones said.
“But the ‘Get-Jones’ campaign is nothing new in my life.”
At the time, Daily Mail Australia quoted a friend as saying Jones was “an absolutely broken man” and that the allegations had left him “completely devastated”.
About two months later he underwent a hip replacement.
Jones has not spoken publicly since the sexual assault charges were filed, but attorney Chris Murphy said his client would defend them.
“Nothing has been tested, nothing has been proven,” Murphy said on the day of Jones’ arrest.
‘Alan Jones will properly assert his innocence in court – he denies any wrongdoing, this case will be defended.’
Jones released a video statement in March refuting the allegations first made publicly by Nine newspapers late last year.
He is due to make his first appearance at Downing Center Local Court on December 18.