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Richest Australian man Kerry Packer dies
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-27 08:50
Australia's wealthiest man, media and gambling mogul Kerry Packer, has died,
his family said in a statement Tuesday. He was 68.
Packer 錕斤拷 ranked as the world's 94th wealthiest person by Forbes magazine,
with a $5 billion fortune 錕斤拷 died Monday at his Sydney home, according to the
statement released through his Nine Network television.
Australia's richest man Kerry Packer (R) walks
past journalists at the Media and Gaming group Publishing and Broadcasting
Ltd annual general meeting in Sydney in this October 31, 2001 file
photo.[Reuters/file] | "Mrs. Kerry Packer and her
children, James and Gretel, sadly report the passing last evening of her husband
and their father Kerry," according to a statement from Tony Ritchie, a Nine
Network executive. "He died peacefully at home with his family at his bedside."
Packer had long been plagued by ill health, battling cancer and receiving a
kidney transplant.
His media and gambling empire was centered on Publishing & Broadcasting
Ltd., which owns Nine as well as Melbourne's Crown Casino. The company also is
developing casinos in Macau with Asian businessman Stanley Ho.
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