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Do we like Steffi Graf?

Our score: 6 out of 10. Nothing harmful from her turned up, but too little of her record could be read to score her higher.

The story that follows Steffi Graf around isn't hers, it's her dad's. In May 1995 tax investigators and prosecutors searched Peter Graf's house in Brühl, and on 2 August 1995 he was taken into custody on an arrest warrant. That's the backdrop to the most dramatic stretch of her public life.

Mannheim prosecutors charged Peter Graf with tax evasion involving about 19.6 million marks in April 1996. In January 1997 the Mannheim district court sentenced him to three years and nine months for evading 12.3 million marks. He was released early, in April 1998, and died in November 2013.

Here's the bit that matters for Steffi: the report says investigators always emphasised there was no evidence of her involvement. It doesn't say she was charged with anything. So the family scandal sits on the family, not on her, as far as this record goes.

On the harm test, honestly, we found nothing. No campaigning against LGBTQ+ people or trans people, no climate or vaccine nonsense, no conspiracy slide, and no dodgy co-stars or studios. One search on trans issues only turned up commentary about other players, not any statement from her. That is an absence of evidence, not a glowing character reference.

We'd also like to tell you more about the good stuff. Her work for refugee and war-affected kids through her foundation is widely reported, but the pages we tried to open were blocked by a safety check, so we won't sell you details we couldn't read. Treat this as a provisional card and check back.

So where does that leave you? A woman whose biggest controversy is something her father did, with no sign of harmful words or acts of her own. We're calling it lean yes, with the caveat that the file is thin. If you're a fan, there's no red flag here, just a gap we couldn't fill.