Photo gallery: Disgraced BBC star Savile’s estate frozen
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Graffiti and slogans are seen painted on Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Graffiti and slogans are seen painted on Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Graffiti and slogans are seen painted on Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Graffiti is seen painted on a broken window at Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. British police said on Oct 28 they had arrested a man on suspicion of sexual offences as part of their investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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In this file picture taken on June 4, 2002, late British TV star Jimmy Savile joins in with people representing Commonwealth countries wearing their tradional dress crowd into the forecourt of Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in London. Late British TV star Jimmy Savile, who has been accused of sex abuse, regularly took teenage girls on late night trips to a hospital where he was a volunteer, an ex-porter said in an interview aired on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
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The hearse bearing the coffin of Sir Jimmy Savile moves slowly as crowds of fans look on, in Leeds, England, in this file photo dated Wednesday, Nov 9, 2011. The TV personality and broadcaster widely known for his charitable works is being revealed by police as a sexual predator. Relevations about Savile as a sex offender have shaken the British public and questions are being asked in the media about whether the society that gave him fame and fortune, also helped keep his crimes from coming out. -- PHOTO: AP
Graffiti and slogans are seen painted on Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Graffiti and slogans are seen painted on Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Graffiti and slogans are seen painted on Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Graffiti is seen painted on a broken window at Alt-na-reigh, the cottage owned by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, in Glen Coe, Scotland on Oct 29, 2012. British police said on Oct 28 they had arrested a man on suspicion of sexual offences as part of their investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
In this file picture taken on June 4, 2002, late British TV star Jimmy Savile joins in with people representing Commonwealth countries wearing their tradional dress crowd into the forecourt of Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in London. Late British TV star Jimmy Savile, who has been accused of sex abuse, regularly took teenage girls on late night trips to a hospital where he was a volunteer, an ex-porter said in an interview aired on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
The hearse bearing the coffin of Sir Jimmy Savile moves slowly as crowds of fans look on, in Leeds, England, in this file photo dated Wednesday, Nov 9, 2011. The TV personality and broadcaster widely known for his charitable works is being revealed by police as a sexual predator. Relevations about Savile as a sex offender have shaken the British public and questions are being asked in the media about whether the society that gave him fame and fortune, also helped keep his crimes from coming out. -- PHOTO: AP
LONDON (AFP) - The estate of Britain’s Jimmy Savile has been frozen over mounting allegations of sexual abuse by the late television star, his executor NatWest bank said on Thursday.
Savile, who the police believe may have abused up to 300 children over four decades, reportedly left an estate worth 4.3 million pounds (S$8.4 million) when he died in October last year at the age of 84.
The scandal surrounding Savile, one of the best-known stars of British TV and radio from the 1960s to the 1980s, has dragged in several public institutions where the abuse allegedly took place, including the BBC and three hospitals.
