December 2021
Gyngell cashes in as Strop’s pub near Byron sells for $68m
The former Nine boss had owned Hotel Brunswick at Brunswick Heads with John “Strop” Cornell since 2013, paying just $5.25 million for his half stake.
- Larry Schlesinger
July 2021
‘A ripper’: Hogan, Packer sideman Cornell dies
The public knew him as TV’s beer-drinking mumbler Strop, but behind the scenes John Cornell produced Crocodile Dundee and was central to Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket revolution.
- Miranda Ward