| Gretel Packer | |
| Birth Place: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Known For: | Packer family |
| Children: | 3[1] |
Gretel Lees Packer (born August 1965[2]) is an Australian billionaire investor and philanthropist.[3]
Packer is the daughter of Kerry Packer, a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer . She is the granddaughter of Sir Frank Packer. Following the death of her father and an estimated 1.2 billion settlement[2] in 2015 with her brother, James, she inherited investments in Crown Resorts, and other companies.[4]
Her philanthropic interests include a broad range of community activities and charities aligned to the arts, education, and environmental science. Packer is Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales,[5] Chair of the Advisory Board of Crown Resorts Foundation, Chair of the Packer Family Foundation, Chair of The Sydney Theatre Company Foundation, and a Founding Patron of the Taronga Zoo Conservation Science Initiative and a Founding Governor of the Taronga Zoo Foundation. She has previously served as a Director of the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation and as a Council Member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation.[6]
Packer had two children to her first husband, Nick Barham, whom she divorced in 1999;[1] and one child to her second husband, Shane Murray, whom she married in late 2005 and divorced in 2007.
, Packer's net worth was assessed as 2.09 billion by the Financial Review Rich List. Forbes Asia magazine assessed Packer's net worth at 1.6 billion in January 2019.
| Year | Financial Review Rich List | Forbes Australia's 50 Richest | |||
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| Rank | Net worth (A$) | Rank | |||
| 2017[7] [8] [9] | |||||
| 2018[10] | $1.26 billion | ||||
| 2019[11] [12] | $1.16 billion | $1.60 billion | |||
| 2020[13] | $1.77 billion | ||||
| 2021[14] | $2.30 billion | ||||
| 2022 | $2.00 billion | ||||
| 2023[15] | $2.09 billion | ||||
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