Legendary journalist John Pilger left HUGE sum in his will following his death aged 82

JOURNALIST and filmmaker John Pilger left £3.4million in his will.

He wanted the bulk of his £3,371,322 estate, which included a house in Italy, to go to his family.

Pilger, a supporter of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, also gifted £50,000 to ITV to set up an annual journalism award.

And he left gifts of £5,000 to the Palestine Welfare Corporation, the Street Souls charity and Medical and Scientific Aid for Vietnam.

Australian-born Pilger, best known for his work on the Vietnam war and the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia, died in December 2023, aged 84.

He was a vocal and sometimes controversial critic of Western foreign policy.

He was also outspoken over the treatment of Indigenous Australians.

Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan described Pilger as "a brilliant firebrand journalist and ferocious holder of the powerful to proper account."

John Simpson, the BBC's world affairs editor, said that although he disagreed with Pilger over the years, he "admired the force of his writing, even when I often didn't support what he wrote, and he was always warm when we met."

Pilger's family confirmed his death on social media in a post describing him as "simply the most amazing and loved dad, grandad and partner."