JAMES PACKER’S CHALLENGING FIVE YEARS
* September 2013: splits from Erica, the wife of his three young children.
* May 2014: captured by paparazzi brawling with close friend and then-Nine Entertainment chief executive David Gyngell
* December 2015: pays older sister Gretel a reported $1.25 billion to settle the terms of their father Kerry’s will.
* January 2016: steps down from Crown board to focus on the casino operator’s development projects.
* October 2016: breaks off nine-month engagement with US singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. The same month, 19 past and present Crown employees are detained in Shanghai, China.
* April 2017: pulls out of the Hollywood business RatPac, which he created in 2013 with producer-director Brett Ratner.
* May 20…
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