![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. Page Six also claimed she spent at least $US45,000 a year on spa treatments for her beloved pooches. Each was also accompanied by its own staff member. In late January 2016, the New York Post's celebrity gossip column Page Six reported that a few days after she flew from New York to Los Angeles with Packer, Carey flew her Jack Russell pet dogs Cha Cha and Jill E Beans in their own seats on an American Airlines flight. Packer did his best to turn a blind eye to Carey's diva whims, which included bringing along her personal stylist, hairdresser and makeup artist when they travelled together. The two had fallen hard and fast, and were engaged to be married months after they started dating.īelow is an edited extract from The Price Of Fortune: The Untold Story Of Being James Packer, which is out now. The world was stunned when pictures first emerged of James Packer and Mariah Carey together. Why did Mariah Carey and James Packer really break up? Photo / Getty Images ![]()
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