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Skase owned five resorts as well as interests in the Seven television network and the Brisbane Bears football club. However, after raising $250,000 the idea was called off on legal advice.[3]
In May 1998, the Australian government canceled Skase's passport. Skase, Spain and Me. Never a dull day.
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SKASE, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES (1948–2001)
In the second half of the 1980s, Christopher Skase was perhaps the most glamorous of all Australian media proprietors, owning a television network, a suite of prestigious tourist resorts in Queensland and Hawaii, an Australian Rules football club and, fleetingly, a Hollywood studio.
The son of 3DB radio personality Charles Skase, Skase withdrew from a commerce degree to work at stockbroker JBWere, then as a business journalist at the Sun News-Pictorial and the Australian Financial Review in Melbourne.
By the late 1980s, the Qintex group was worth A$1.5 billion. By the man who lived through it all. Rest in Peace Mum.'
Ms Skase was once one of Australia's richest women, jetting around on private planes and building multi-million dollar mansions with her husband.
But her dramatic fall from grace left her renting a modest two-bedroom Toorak apartment from a friend for $560-a-week and rifling through supermarket bargain bins.
Pixie Skase, the widow of controversial businessman Christopher Skase, has died 83 in Melbourne.
His award-winning Mirage resorts on the Gold Coast and Port Douglas set international benchmarks in design, luxury and style; his media interests grew to include a television network spanning the nation; his eye for a business bargain with hidden potential never seemed to fail him. His father was Charles Skase, 1948 winner of the Melbourne Sun-Aria, and prominent on-air personality on radio station 3DB, including his role as star of the live-to-air program, The Happy Gang, in the 1950s.
The extradition process was still tied up in the courts when, the following month, he became a citizen of Dominica.
Sydney Morning Herald. Qintex’s price plunged after it announced plans to acquire MGM/UA in April 1989; a strike by commercial airline pilots then devastated his resort businesses.
Burdened by debts in excess of $1 billion, Qintex collapsed in November 1989. Quickly. In 1988, he agreed to pay Robert Holmes à Court’s Bell Group $113 million for Perth’s TVW7 and Adelaide’s SAS7.
Despite efforts lasting more than a decade, Max Donnelly, the creditors' trustee, was unable to trace much of the missing money.
At a meeting in October, Skase began to fall out with the Qintex board.
These included Channel Seven, the Hardy Brothers jewellery company, the Mirage resorts in Queensland and the Brisbane Bears Football Club.
reprint. Tony Larkins knows all the answers. His absence, and rumours that he had salted away a personal fortune, became a cause célêbre, and an arrest warrant was issued in 1994, to no avail. But illness began to dog him and ultimately, imprisoned in a hospital gaol ward, life was reduced to fighting off orders to extradite him back to Australia.
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