Jimmy Savile left £4.3 million to friends and his charity; abuse claims froze the estate and the courts approved paying it to his victims

Jimmy Savile presented Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It and raised money for hospitals. He died in October 2011 and left £4.3 million. His 2006 will gave £20,000 to 20 friends, relatives and neighbours, put £600,000 in a fund for eight named people, and left the rest, about £3.7 million, to the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust. NatWest bank was executor. After the ITV documentary in October 2012, his family had his triple headstone removed from Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough overnight and sent to landfill. Both of his charities announced they would close. In November 2012 NatWest froze the estate. NatWest, the BBC, the NHS, Barnardo's and victims' lawyers then agreed a compensation scheme with fixed payments for eight categories of assault, capped at £60,000 a person. The charitable trust, which stood to inherit the residue, opposed it, saying it would not filter out false claims and would pay too much to lawyers. The High Court approved the scheme in 2014 and ordered the trust to pay higher costs. In December 2014 the Court of Appeal upheld the scheme and refused to remove NatWest as executor. More than 200 people had made claims. By early 2015 the estate stood at about £3.3 million after costs; 11 claims had been settled for £353,000 and 131 claims totalling £3.3 million were outstanding, leaving nothing for the charitable trust if they were valid.