Challenging five years

September 2013: splits from Erica, the wife of his three young children. May 2014: captured by paparazzi brawling with close friend and thenNine Entertainment chief executive David Gyngell.

December 2015: pays older sister Gretel a reported $A1.25 billion to settle the terms of their father Kerry’s will. Steps down from Crown board to focus on the casino operator’s development projects.

October 2016: breaks off ninemonth engagement with US singersongwriter Mariah Carey. Nineteen past and present Crown employees are detained in Shanghai, China.

April 2017: pulls out of the Hollywood business RatPac, which he created in 2013 with producerdirector Brett Ratner.

May 2017: Crown pulls out of Macau, directing the $US1.3 billion from the sale of its assets there to help pay down debt. Cashedup mainland China gamblers had been deterred by Shanghai detentions, affecting highroller trade in Macau.

June 2017: Crown pays $US1.7 million in fines on behalf of Crown staff who pleaded guilty to illegally promoting gambling on the Chinese mainland. August 2017: rejoins the Crown board

December 2017: voluntarily meets Australian Federal Police to be interviewed as a witness in a bribery investigation into Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. There are no allegations of wrongdoing by Mr Packer.

January 2018: Crown pulls the pin on Las Vegas expansion hopes and sells land on the Vegas strip for

$US370 million

March 2018: quits the Crown board to deal with mental health issues.

July 2018: steps down from the CPH board to continue his recovery.

Quotes

‘‘I’ve got China falling apart, the Australian casino businesses missing budgets by big amounts, I’ve got Mariah breaking up with me and I’m thinking, ‘F***!’’’ — Mr Packer in an interview with The Australian in late 2017. — AAP