![]() Also there was Packer’s good friend Thom Knoles, a maharishi (or master teacher) of Vedic meditation, a mental technique for relaxation developed 5000 years ago in India. This time Stokes returned the favour and turned up with his wife, Christine, on Packer’s doorstep in Aspen. ![]() ![]() In the years following their détente after the battle for CMH, Packer had often been to see him there. Stokes had been spending the American ski season, as he does each year, at his hunting lodge - a two-storey, six-bedroom, six-bathroom penthouse for which Stokes had paid $US15.5 million for in 2002 - at the exclusive Beaver Creek in Vail, Colorado, two hours’ drive from Aspen. Kerry Stokes joined James Packer and Mariah Carey in Portofino in June 2015. That was code for (relying on) Kerry Stokes,” he says. He told me to rely on my friends nearby to tell me what to do next. “It was from a man I once knew who lived in Israel. Packer now recalls sitting at his home in Aspen in February 2016 when the house phone rang. The life of dating a diva was also starting to take its toll, and Packer’s friends were seriously concerned about his mental and physical welfare. He was terrified she could one day take everything from him. More threateningly, in light of the fallout between them, he had agreed to Gretel having personal guarantees over all his assets. Yet by the end of 2015, he had again taken on more debt than he could psychologically handle in an effort to pay Gretel out. In the years that followed he vowed to never again be caught with too much debt. He became fanatically obsessed with the money he was losing at the time, petrified that less than five years after inheriting a multibillion-dollar fortune, he might lose it all. He became depressed, put on weight and took up smoking again. The GFC had been a deeply traumatic event for Packer, testing his judgment and his nerve in ways which revealed elements of his character that few would have expected in someone with such a privileged life and immense personal wealth. Shares in his Macau casino company were still falling and Crown shares had slumped to their lowest level in two years. In early 2016, Packer was in panic mode after having concluded a $1.25 billion agreement to divide his family empire with his sister on Christmas Day 2015. MORE: Why James Packer fell into Scientology This’ll be marriage number three.”Ĭelebrity news site TMZ subsequently described the agreement as an unromantic, 37-page document stipulating that Carey would receive $115,385 per week in the event of a divorce, up to a maximum of $30 million, adjusted pro-rata on a weekly basis. Anytime you get married to somebody (it does) - and I should know. Because there’s things that are specifically mine, and he’s got huge friggin’ conglomerate stuff, and I’m not looking to take that from him. “We would like for (a prenuptial agreement) not to be a big thing, but the reality is it has to be. Clarke/FilmMagicĬarey told Complex magazine that she was in favour of a prenup. “There were already problems trying to negotiate our prenup,” Packer recalls, without commenting further on the details. Plans were made for the couple to wed on Bora Bora in French Polynesia on March 1, 2016. It would have been the third marriage for both of them. Packer chose the New York three-Michelin-star restaurant Eleven Madison Park to get down on one knee and propose to Carey on the evening of January 21. Packer and his staff also did their best to tolerate the whims of Carey’s (then) personal assistant and manager Stella Bulochnikov.īulochnikov took Packer ring shopping in New York, where he bought a massive 35-carat Wilfredo Rosado-designed engagement ring from her uncle in the city’s jewellery quarter on 45th Street. Mariah Carey was well known for her diva antics, and they came at a time James Packer’s fortune was in trouble.Īustralian gossip magazine Woman’s Day later reported that while she was dating Packer, Carey was spending $100,000 a month ordering exotic flowers from around the world to be delivered wherever she happened to be.
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