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John Cornell

December 2021

David Gyngell bought a 50 per cent share of the hotel for $5.3m in 2013.

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

John Cornell as “Strop” with wife Delvene Delaney in 1981.

‘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

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