James Packer ‘happiest’ he has been for a long time relaxing with Kylie Lim in the Mediterranean
Billionaire James Packer and girlfriend Kylie Lim looked relaxed and tanned as they lapped up the Mediterranean sunshine sailing from port to port on the superyacht Mischief.
Gaming billionaire James Packer looks considerably relaxed as he cruises aboard a luxury super yacht on his annual sojourn around the Mediterranean with girlfriend Kylie Lim.
With $1.8 billion in cash in his pocket after off-loading 20 per cent of Crown Resorts to Macau-based casino magnate, Lawrence Ho, friends say the former media tycoon is “the happiest he’s been in a long while.”
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Basking under the Capri sun, Packer, 51, worth an estimated total $4.9 billion, was seen diving off the back of the hired 54m vessel Mischief and splashing around in the sea fully clothed.
As he clambered back on board the $40 million yacht owned by fellow rich-lister and Cranbrook School graduate, Ian Malouf, a bikini-clad Kylie handed him a pristine white towel to dry off.
Packer was understood to be talking to funds manager Hamish Douglass and former top Macquarie banker Ben Brazil on how best to invest the spare dosh he has acquired from the recent sale of his shares in the gaming empire.
Friends say he has been exceedingly buoyed of late as his two-year romance with the Canadian-born socialite goes from strength-to-strength and he relishes in the building of the $2.2 billion Crown Sydney, a project he believes will allow him to stamp his mark on his homeland when it opens in Barangaroo in 18 months.
“There are very few things in life that are more important to me than Crown Sydney,” he has previously said.
Mr Packer has been splashing a little of his cash of late on a fine Bulgari diamond, pearl and amethyst encrusted ring, bracelet and necklace set for Ms Lim, a woman he credits for getting him over a “bad, bad” time following his split from pop singer Mariah Carey in 2016.
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