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Cornell also had a daughter, Melissa, from an earlier marriage.One Saturday morning in early 1996, Ray Martin's phone rang. He claimed in 2010 that he was able to walk up to two kilometers and felt like “a magic wand had been waved over me.”Ĭornell and Delaney had two daughters, Allira and Liana. The Australian Crime Commission dropped its investigation in 2010, and Cornell and Hogan settled their dispute with the Australian Taxation Office in 2012.Ĭornell, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in his 60s, began having a treatment known as deep-brain stimulation in 2009. The Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Crime Commission began investigating Hogan and Cornell for alleged tax evasion in 2004, chasing the pair for AU$150 million ($110 million) in allegedly unpaid taxes dating from the 1980s.

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In 2013 his friend, TV executive David Gyngell, bought a half-share for AU$5.25 million ($3.87 million). The same year Cornell and Delaney built the Byron Bay Beach Hotel Resort, which they sold in 2007 for AU$65 million ($47.91 million).Ĭornell’s company bought the Hotel Brunswick, at nearby Brunswick Heads, in 1990. In 1990, Cornell was the best man when Hogan married Linda Kozlowski, his Crocodile Dundee co-star, in Byron Bay. Two successful sequels followed, but they did not hit the heights of the original. “Being rich, I am my own boss,” said Cornell in 1986. Cornell said he wanted to produce a feel-good film “that would appeal to males and females from six to 65”. Part of Crocodile Dundee’s success rested on its lack of sex and violence. Cornell, Hogan, and Ken Shadie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. In the month before its US release in October 1986, Hogan and Cornell did more than 300 promotional interviews in a month.Ĭrocodile Dundee became the second-highest-grossing release in the US that year, after Top Gun.

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The AU$8.8 million ($6.49 million) budget was large for an Australian film at the time, but several hundred mates of Cornell and Hogan, including Kerry Packer and cricketers Dennis Lillee, Greg Chappell, and Rod Marsh, put up the cash.Ĭornell and Hogan were the biggest individual investors, although Cornell acknowledged “rule number one in movies is never to invest in your own movie.”Ĭornell accurately predicted that before the film was released, “Crocodile Dundee will be a huge success and will outgross every other Australian movie ever made.” Cornell was the producer and one of the screenwriters. Then in 1986 came the blockbuster hit, Crocodile Dundee, directed by Peter Faiman. The advertisements helped build Hogan’s international profile. In 1984, Cornell helped negotiate a deal with the Australian Tourism Commission for Hogan to star in the hugely successful “shrimp on the Barbie” advertisements to promote Australia in the US and elsewhere. However, Strop’s role was fading, and in 1980 Cornell and Hogan announced an “amicable agreement” by which Cornell would leave The Paul Hogan Show, although the pair would continue to work closely off-screen.Ĭornell and Delaney later moved to Byron Bay, on the New South Wales north coast, helping to establish it as a Mecca for the rich and famous. “The public will see the best cricket ever witnessed, and the players themselves think the ideas will be a tremendous boost to the game,” said Cornell in May 1977.Ĭornell, who had been married twice before, wed The Paul Hogan’s Show’s resident beauty, Delaney, on New Year’s Eve 1977.

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In 1977, Cornell’s JP Promotions and Nine signed 35 top cricketers to play in a series of six “super-Tests” between Australia and the Rest of the World.

That prompted Cornell to pitch the idea of a new cricket league, funded by commercial television broadcasts, to Nine boss Kerry Packer.

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When Hogan was given his own show in 1973, Cornell played Strop, the dim-witted flatmate with the perennial surf lifesaving cap and jutting jaw.Ĭornell also managed several cricketers, including bowler Dennis Lillee, who wanted to be highly paid professional sportsmen like tennis players and golfers.

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