By Tom Parmenter, Sky Correspondent, at the Court of Appeal
Max Clifford has failed in his Court of Appeal challenge to his eight-year prison sentence for sex offences.
At a hearing last month, the disgraced PR consultant's lawyers argued that the jail term was unfair and excessive.
Clifford, 71, was jailed in May after a seven-week trial in which he was shown to be a manipulative sex offender who had abused a string of young women during his career.
Many of them had been teenagers looking for work in show business.
In court he dismissed the women as "fantasists and liars" who were making the allegations in pursuit of compensation.
However, he was found guilty of eight sex attacks on four victims between 1977 and 1984. The judge said he also believed other "supporting witnesses" who had made serious allegations.
At the Court of Appeal hearing, Clifford appeared to have lost weight as he watched proceedings via videolink from HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire.
His barrister, Richard Horwell QC, told the three judges that Clifford's last offence was 29 years ago and since "he has led an industrious life, and devoted a considerable part of his time to charitable works for which he has raised substantial funds".
In his sentencing remarks earlier this year, Mr Justice Leonard QC said he took into account Clifford's bizarre behaviour outside court and how his offences would have attracted far greater penalties if they had been committed more recently.
One of the victims told Sky News: "I think his sentence is deserved, not only for his crimes but for his continued contempt towards women in general."
The appeal ruling has been considered over the past fortnight by a panel of three judges.
Announcing the decision, Lord Justice Treacy said: "It seems to us that, after consideration of the individual offences and the application of modern sentencing attitudes reflected in the guidelines ... an overall sentence of eight years was justified and correct."
He added: "Sexual offending will by its very nature cause harm at the time the offence is committed, but it is well recognised that for many victims significant harm persists for a considerable period afterwards.
"This is a case where it is clear that the effect of what was done to the victims was not something from which they recovered quickly."
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