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Kerry Packer’s father Sir Frank Packer started the media empire in 1933, with the magazine Women’s Weekly, with great success Sir Frank expanded the business into newspapers like Sydney's Daily Telegraph. Kerry took over the business when Sir Frank died in 1974.
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Packer was often the centre of controversy. One of the earliest incidents occurred in 1962, when his father was trying to take over the Anglican Press, a small publisher run by Francis James. According to author Richard Neville, Frank Packer was angered by James' refusal to sell the Anglican Press, so he sent Kerry and some burly friends to pressure him into selling. They forced their way in and reportedly began vandalising the premises, but James was able to barricade himself in his office and call his friend Rupert Murdoch, Packer's most powerful rival. Murdoch quickly dispatched his own team of 'heavies', who threw Kerry and friends out. Not surprisingly, the Murdoch press had a field day with the news that the son of Australia's biggest media tycoon had been caught brawling in the street.
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It was only in 1972, when Kerry’s elder brother Clyde broke relations with his father and quit the Packer dynasty, that Frank Packer recognised Kerry as his heir. Two years later the millionaire patriarch died, bequeathing Kerry a $100 million company, Consolidated Press Holdings, which owned Channel 9 in Sydney and Melbourne, and a range of popular magazines.
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Packer's past girlfriends have included Tania Bryer and Joan Severance. After breaking off a two year engagement to Kate Fischer, in October 1999, he married swimsuit model Jodhi Meares. He currently resides in the plush suburb of Bellevue Hill, in Sydney's luxurious Eastern Suburbs. He lives in the same estate as his grandfather, Frank Packer, known as Packer Estate, the centre of which is the "Cairnton" mansion.
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The life of Sir Frank Packer - though this present hagiography almost disguises the fact - is that of a larrikin who almost all his life has had the kind of money to indulge himself to the full. He is brutal in his treatment of those who cross him and power-hungry in his dealings and manipulations of men and events. Of course, as Sir Robert (Menzies) thoughtfully avers, such faults are masculine. But so presumably were Hitler's.
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Kerry and his brother Clyde saw little of their father and when they did it was often to get a taste of Sir Frank's strict discipline. In a rare interview on radio in 1979 Kerry talked about his upbringing. "I mean I got a lot of hidings because that's the sort of person I was and the sort of person he was."
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