Packer, Kerry |
Born
17 December
1937 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Died 26 December 2005 (Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia)
Age at death: 68 (read death notice) |
Billionaire
media mogul, whose empire was
originally built on "Women's Weekly" magazine. In 1977 he
enraged the
"sporting establishment" with his breakaway World Series
Cricket. He
spent nine months in an iron lung at the age of six, as a
result of
catching polio, and spent six (or seven, depending who you
believe)
minutes clinically dead in 1990 following a heart attack (or
stroke,
depending who you believe). A compulsive gambler who would
surface in a
news story every couple of years either winning, losing or
betting some
record amount in richly anecdotal circumstances. |
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