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UPPER EAST SIDE — Morley Safer's 46 years as a "60 Minutes" reporter was time well-spent.
The gravelly voiced journalist died in May with $17 million, according to a will filed on Tuesday in Manhattan Surrogates Court. The bulk of that fortune will go to his wife, Jane, and his daughter, Sarah, the will says.
The will also bequeaths all of his historical property to the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. The property includes his scripts, photographs, mementos and books from his journalism career, according to the will.
Safer donated his papers to the center in 2009, saying in a statement at the time that the center's "collection of journalism has no equal."