Left -wing journalist John Pilger made an unusual last request that his computer and hard drive are being destroyed after his death.
Probate Records reveal that Pilger who has left an estate is worth £ 3.3 million in his will the provision to ensure that no one else could ever read his private e -mails.
The crusal morning journalist and activist who often criticized American and British foreign policy while admired some authoritarian regimes, did not explain the reasons for the clause that was the last entry on the last page of his will.
The clause was: “I also ask that my son Sam ensures that my personal computer and the hard drive have been destroyed, so that the e -mail record is not available to everyone.”
The Piler, born in Australia, who made more than 60 documentaries before he died on December 30, 2023 at the age of 84, left a net estate in the UK of £ 3,371,322 before payment of the inheritance tax.
The majority of his estate was left to his long -term partner, magazine journalist Jane Hill, and son Sam.
Father-of-two Pilger who was a prominent proponent of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, left his mark as an investigative journalist, worked in problems and expressed himself for oppressed people around the world.
He came famous for Cambodia while in 1979 he worked for the Daily Mirror and exposed how Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime had killed two million people from a population of only seven million before they were overthrown by Vietnam.
Lefty journalist John Pilger left his huge estate to his family (he was depicted in Sydney in 2004)
Next time, Mr Pilger promotes book Freedom in a bookstore in Sydney in February 2007
The Piler, born in Australia, made more than 60 documentaries before he died on December 30, 2023 at the age of 84 (he was depicted in the nineties)
His subsequent documentary about the genocide of the 'Killing Fields called Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, was viewed in 50 countries by 150 million viewers and won more than 30 international prizes.
Pilger also won with his film Death of a Nation in 1994 who revealed how British weapons were used by the Brutal Indonesian regime to suppress an uprising after he and his producer Dapper Dapper in East Timor Undercover entered.
In another documentary in 2004 he stealed a nation, he told how British governments of the late 1960s and early 1970s driven the indigenous population of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to make way for the military base of Diego Garcia.
But Pilger critics claim that his anti-American attitude led him to embrace dictators who hated the US
His interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2007 was described by the left-wing new statesman as 'one of the most toe-curlingly-Obquious supply in modern cinema, which was ashamed of any advanced Hollywood-political Toadie'.
A few months after Russia seized the Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Pilger wrote in The Guardian that Putin “was the only leader who condemned the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe.”
Pilger had his son from his marriage of 1971 with the journalist Streth Flett who ended in a divorce. He also had a daughter, Zoe, from a relationship with the journalist Yvonne Roberts.
His will determined that his house in Clapham, southwestern, would be divided into three equal shares between Mrs. Hill and his two children.
Pilger – depicted here in 2004 – was born in Bondi, Sydney, Australia, but left the country at a young age to pursue his journalistic career abroad
His family announced his death through his official profile on X, formerly Twitter, greeted him as 'the most amazing and beloved dad, grandfather and partner'
Journalist Pilger, an advocate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrives in 2010 at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court in London in London
Mrs. Hill, his partner of 30 years old, also left the contents of his house in London, as well as a gift of £ 150,000, and his house in Tuscany, where he reportedly showed photos of himself in the company of various freedom fighters and left Wing Despots.
De Wil also made her the literary trustee for his books, articles, films and recorded interviews.
Pilger also left £ 50,000 for ITV to set up a potential annual prize in his memory for campaign documentary filmmakers or journalists.
Pilger has determined that his prize should go to anyone who has done the most to promote an understanding of the struggles of ordinary people for their fundamental human rights such as freedom of poverty and to prevent diseases, freedom of political oppression and freedom of expression Everywhere in the world. “
He also left a number of legacies to charity, including £ 5,000 each at the Palestine Welelfare Corporation, the Street Souls Charity for homeless and medical and scientific help for Vietnam with a request to help victims of Agent Orange.
There were also $ 5,000 gifts on the left-wing American anti-war organization Codepink-Women for Peace and $ 10,000 for consortium news.
Other personal legacies include £ 30,000 for his friend Karen Hawker, £ 10,000 to film editor Joe Frost who worked on his documentaries and £ 20,000 on Oliver Downard as a personal gift and to help maintain his website.
The will determined that the residue of his legacy would be shared between his son and Mrs. Hill.
He also asked that he was cremated after a non-religious funeral ceremony that he said to play 'The Liveliest Songs from the film The Blues Brothers' Together with 'A Come is Come' by Sam Cooke and 'No More Whispering' must include and 'no more whispering' would be through Glenn Skuthorpe.
Pilger's son Sam did not respond to a request for comment.
