Kerry Packer

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Person.png Kerry Packer   IMDBRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(media magnate)
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Born17 December 1937
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died26 December 2005 (Age 68)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Alma materGeelong Grammar School, Cranbrook School, Canberra Grammar Schoo
ParentsFrank Packer
Children • Gretel Packer
• James Packer
SpouseRoslyn Weedon
Member ofAustralian Club (Sydney), Clermont Set
Australian Clermont Set media magnate

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer was an Australian media tycoon, and a "billionaire who loved brothels"[1] At the time of his death, he was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia.

Background

Kerry Packer was born on 17 December 1937 in Sydney, Australia. His father was Sir Frank Packer, an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network. On his father's death in 1974, the family estate, valued at $100 million, passed directly to Packer.

Activites

Involved with crime boss Abe Saffron, who sexually blackmailed him.[citation needed]

Saffron and Packer worked together in the early 1980s to smuggle heroin through Packers string of cattle stations in the north of Australia.[citation needed]

His most severe legal challenge came in 1984 with the Costigan Commission alleging that he was involved in tax evasion and organised crime, including drug trafficking. He successfully counter-attacked the commission with the assistance of his counsel Malcolm Turnbull.[2]

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