Gretel Packer
{{short description|Australian investor and philanthropist}}
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| name = Gretel Packer
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AM}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1965|08}}
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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| nationality = Australian
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| occupation = {{unbulleted list|Chair, Crown Resorts Foundation|Chair, Packer Family Foundation}}
| known_for = Packer family
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| spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Nick Barham||1999|reason={{abbr|div.|divorced}}}}|{{marriage|Shane Murray|2005|2007|reason={{abbr|div.|divorced}}}}{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/01/29/1138469600657.html |title=Baby boy for Gretel Packer |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=29 January 2006 |accessdate=31 March 2010 |agency=AAP }}}}
| children = 3{{cite news |author=Sharp, Annette |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/gretel-packer-steps-out-with-her-boys/news-story/15778eac8f5675e633d40a4284372fd2 |title=Gretel Packer steps out with her boys |work=Daily Telegraph |location=Australia |date=10 August 2013 |access-date=4 October 2019 }}
| father = Kerry Packer {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}
| mother = Roslyn Packer {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}
| relatives = {{unbulleted list|James Packer (brother)|{{nowrap|Sir Frank Packer {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KBE|OStJ}} (grandfather)}}|Clyde Packer (uncle)|Robert Clyde Packer (great grandfather)}}
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Gretel Lees Packer {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born August 1965{{cite news |author=Hornery, Andrew |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/gretel-packer-packs-artistic-punch-with-philanthropic-ways-20200603-p54z8n.html |title=Gretel Packer packs artistic punch with philanthropic ways |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=5 June 2020 |access-date=29 November 2020 }}) is an Australian billionaire investor and philanthropist.{{cite news |author=Albert, Jane |url=https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/the-5-wealthy-women-who-championed-sydney-modern-20190329-p518w8 |title=The 5 wealthy women who championed Sydney Modern |work=The Australian Financial Review |date=2 May 2019 |access-date=4 October 2019 }}
Early life and career
Packer is the daughter of Kerry Packer {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}, a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}. She is the granddaughter of Sir Frank Packer. Following the death of her father and an estimated {{AUD}}1.2 billion settlement in 2015 with her brother, James, she inherited investments in Crown Resorts, and other companies.{{cite news |author=Kitney, Damon |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/inquirer/james-and-gretel-packers-dispute-over-family-fortune/news-story/8bbcda49f42ea943f0c25cbbbed1cc63 |url-access=subscription |title=The ties that bind |work=The Australian |date=12 October 2018 |access-date=4 October 2019}}
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,{{Cite web|title=Gretel Packer|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/gretel-packer/|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-05-06}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/people/agnsw-trust/ |title=Art Gallery of NSW Board of Trustees |work=About us |publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales |date=n.d. |access-date=4 October 2019 |archive-date=4 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204123328/https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/people/agnsw-trust/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |date=2025-01-27 |title=Revealed: an art gallery like no other |url=https://archive.today/20250127072827/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/wish/the-good-oil-michael-brand-art-gallery-nsw-director/news-story/61ec653d0750e66404bef7bf01da50c9 |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=archive.is}}{{Cite web |last=Hornery |first=Andrew |date=2020-06-05 |title=Gretel Packer packs artistic punch with philanthropic ways |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/gretel-packer-packs-artistic-punch-with-philanthropic-ways-20200603-p54z8n.html |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}
Personal life
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{{as of|2025|05}}, Packer's net worth was assessed as {{AUD}}2.33 billion by the Financial Review in the 2025 Rich List. Forbes Asia magazine assessed Packer's net worth at {{USD}}1.6 billion in January 2019.
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Category:Australian billionaires
Category:Australian women philanthropists
Category:Australian philanthropists
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Australian businesswomen
Category:21st-century Australian businesspeople
Category:Businesspeople from Sydney
Category:Members of the Order of Australia