![]() UBS and Goldman Sachs made so much money on fees it's almost hilarious. People are happy to blow smoke up Jamie's ass because he's rich and they can make money out of him. The endless brown-nosing and fawning got a bit nauseating at times. The author doesn't seem to quite grasp that. The few that worked were big wins that covered up the losses, like monopolies with etc. So many investments failed, it's uncanny. Perhaps he should have just parked the money in various low-cost index funds and would have made much more with less stress. He had nervous breakdowns about losing the inherited wealth. But James have never built a business from scratch, maybe that's the key to his angst. At least he acknowledges that he inherited his $3 billion, but people keep treating him like he's some special genius. Jamie/James seemed to enter relationships based on transactions and what he can get. So the tell all is most things except Miranda Kerr (like Jodhi, Miranda is also from Gunnedah) which James refuses to talk about because she was friends with Jodhi before and I guess Jodhi was either hurt or furious about it. ![]() ![]() So Jodhi Meares was Jodie but changed her name due to numerology. Spoilt brat has mental breakdown and tells (nearly) all to an Aussie journo. 'Kitney manages to tread the fine line between documenting the bizarre spectacle that is Packer's life, and eliciting sympathy for this man of extraordinary wealth.' The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age 'Engrossing, highly readable' The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age 'a journalistic classic' - John Lehmann, editor of The Australian 'a revealing portrait of a complex man' - Australian Financial Review Yet how sometimes trusting the wrong people and his own rash actions cost him money, friendships, his health and business reputation on the global stage - and how he is now working on getting it all back.PRAISE FOR THE PRICE OF Of how his wealth, charm and intellect took him to such exciting places. In his biography The Price of Fortune, one of the nation's richest and most psychoanalysed men opens up in an attempt to make sense of his rollercoaster life and to tell the human story of being James Douglas Packer. Never before has a member of the Packer family co-operated with a writer to tell their story. With these words, Packer delves for the first time into the story behind his stunning public revelation in mid-March 2018 of his battle with mental health issues, which forced him to resign from the board of the Crown Casino company he owns and loves. "I was like Icarus," the billionaire tells his biographer, journalist Damon Kitney, of the heady days of 2016 when he broke up with pop star Mariah Carey, abandoned living in Hollywood and Israel, left the global casino stage, and divided the family fortune in a bitter separation from his sister. ![]() James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth.
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