Veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin inserted a clause into her will expressly designed to stop her former husband benefiting from her £1.1 million estate,The Mail on Sunday has learned. Journalist and author Patrick Bishop was ‘mystified and upset’ last night to find she had gone to such lengths. Friends were equally baffled as the pair were apparently on good terms. Bishop said he would never have challenged the will, nor did he expect to inherit any part of 56-year-old Colvin’s estate. Indeed, having remarried two years before the document was drawn up, he would have been legally unable to do so.
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Patrick Bishop insisted he had no intention of contesting the will
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The pair split in early Nineties and had both remarried
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Friends of Marie Colvin say she was probably upset with him at the time
‘More likely is that she was miffed at something he’d said or written at the time she drew up the will, and in a fit of pique just decided to add a clause which said “**** you, @placeholder!” and probably would have forgotten about it the following day.