Police probe brawling tycoon and TV exec
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POLICE said yesterday they were investigating a very public street brawl between one of Australia’s richest businessmen and a top television executive in an exclusive Sydney suburb.
News Corp reportedly paid more than US$200,000 for pictures of the fight between casino mogul James Packer and his long-time friend David Gyngell, chief executive of Nine Entertainment, outside Packer’s luxury apartment at Bondi Beach on Sunday.
Pictures of the pair throwing punches and grappling on the ground were published in Australian newspapers yesterday.
Packer, 46, is chairman of Crown Resorts and has interests in casinos in Australia, Macau and Manila. Forbes lists him as Australia’s third-richest person worth an estimated US$6.6 billion.
New South Wales state police yesterday said they were investigating the melee and appealed for witnesses to come forward, despite no official complaint being made.
The Nine Network broadcast a statement in which it said its 47-year-old boss, Gyngell, accepted blame for the fight.
Gyngell and Packer have been friends since high school and have been the best man at each other’s weddings.
“(David Gyngell) fully accepts that he was the instigator of the incident,” it said.
New Corp said that Packer sent Gyngell an angry text message after seeing a Nine television van near his home and assumed he was being staked out.
Nine employee Nick Tokic later told reporters that he lived near Packer and had brought the van home overnight for an early job on Monday morning.
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