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		Skase was the archetype of the flashy 1980s, staging flamboyant parties with his glamorous wife, Pixie.
		Skase was born in Melbourne where he worked as a stockbroker and financial journalist.
		Skase's bankruptcy trustee, Max Donnelly, held up the insurance payout to Pixie Skase for months while he tried to prove her late husband's creditors had a claim on the proceeds of the policy.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/extras/oq/book10skase.html (1422 words)

	Christopher Skase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Charles Skase (September 18, 1948 - August 5, 2001) was a noted Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca in Spain.
		Skase was born into a wealthy Melbourne family, and was educated at Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools.
		Skase became known for his displays of wealth, with a massive fortieth birthday party in 1988, and a company Christmas party that cost $450,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Skase (888 words)

	death of christopher skase - st james ethics centre ... imagine a more ethical world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Christopher Skase died as he lived for more than a decade - a man accused of serious crime but presumed innocent.
		If this was the view of Skase and his family, then it might have been treated with greater sympathy had it been matched by some evidence of genuine remorse for those of his actions that led to the ruin of many that he left behind.
		One of the misfortunes in the life of Skase was that although he was able to run away to Majorca with most of his assets intact, he left behind and lost forever his credibility and reputation for integrity.
	www.ethics.org.au /about-ethics/ethics-centre-articles/ethics-subjects/current-affairs/article-0004.html (868 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Christopher Skase
		Christopher Charles Skase (September 18, 1948 - August 5, 2001) was a noted Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca in Spain.
		Skase was born into a wealthy Melbourne family, and was educated at Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools.
		Skase became known for his displays of wealth, with a massive fortieth birthday party in 1988, and a company Christmas party that cost $450,000.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Christopher_Skase (871 words)

	7.30 Report - 06/08/2001: Dubious legacy of Christopher Skase
		CHRISTOPHER SKASE (1989): It would have been comprehensively impossible to raise half a billion dollars in equity in Australia today.
		MAX DONNELLY: The frustration was mainly the complete lack of cooperation with Skase and his complete, effectively, rejection of the Australian legal system, to the extent where he just was a fugitive in Spain and seemed quite happy to deal with the press in a manner that was a bit like Ronald Biggs.
		CHRISTOPHER SKASE (AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM JAIL HOSPITAL): It's a very strange feeling not to have seen the sun or the stars or the sky or trees the for the best part of a year.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2001/s341911.htm (1171 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age -
		Mrs Skase is the beneficiary of life insurance policies taken out in the 1980s, before Christopher's Skase's regular appearances in an oxygen mask on the island-playground of Majorca, where he fled in 1990.
		Mrs Skase, thrice married and the mother of four daughters, turns 60 on May 28, and is rumoured to be planning a birthday celebration with Australian women friends in London.
		Mrs Skase has previously expressed a wish to return to Australia and while no legal barrier exists to prevent her, she would face the wrath of Skase's outstanding creditors, and a grilling from Mr Donnelly.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/03/09/1015365751955.html (906 words)

	Demons?
		When ambitious businessman Christopher Skase -- who once even owned MGM Studios -- fled Australia in 1995 after the financial ruin of his Quintex empire, he left a lot of his investors with no money, no chance of getting back, and only the figure of somebody to point the finger at.
		Skase was actually something of a small fry—although a brash, upstart one—compared to the heavyweights of Australian business who crashed in the late 1980s and 1990s, most leaving far greater debts behind.
		Even the notorious flamboyance of Skase and his wife—they threw extravagant parties and indulged in various publicity stunts—was driven by the need to be seen to have the financial means to match his older peers.
	www.northernwatchdog.com /Religion/antichrist/demon.htm (2368 words)

	CNN.com - Australia to pursue Skase assets despite death - August 6, 2001
		Skase was facing more than 60 criminal charges relating to the collapse of his company Qintex in the early 1990s, including the misappropriation of more than $5 million in shareholders funds.
		Skase fled to Spain in 1991 and managed to elude attempts to extradite him to Australia by claiming he was too ill to travel.
		The Skase case became a "cause celebre" in Australia with many believing Skase was faking his illnesses to avoid facing his day in court.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/05/australia.skase (366 words)

	Christopher Skase--a convenient scapegoat for Australian business
		Skase, 52, succumbed to stomach cancer on the Spanish resort island of Majorca, some 10 years after fleeing Australia in 1991 to evade charges under companies law relating to the collapse of his $2.3 billion Qintex group.
		Skase was actually something of a small fry—although a brash, upstart one—compared to the heavyweights of Australian business who crashed in the late 1980s and 1990s, most leaving far greater debts behind.
		Even the notorious flamboyance of Skase and his wife—they threw extravagant parties and indulged in various publicity stunts—was driven by the need to be seen to have the financial means to match his older peers.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/aug2001/skas-a13.shtml (1387 words)

	Guardian \| Not the new Ned Kelly
		Christopher Skase, Australia's answer to Ronnie Biggs, this week managed to do what the Great Train Robber could not: he died in a warm sunny climate, well beyond the reach of the law.
		Throughout the 1990s, as Skase defied summons to return home and used his wealth and influence to encourage the Spanish authorities to refuse Australia's extradition requests, the disgraced businessman came to symbolise all that Australia regretted about the 1980s.
		Skase's resorts may have been in bad taste, but he actually built things, which remain profitably run by other companies today.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4235771-105806,00.html (825 words)

	SKASE
		Skase is alive and well, having recovered from the bad back that kept him away from the same court in February.
		Skase is dividing his time between La Noria and a luxury flat in the same area.
		Skase blames Qintex's downfall on "the actions of the Australian Government" in driving interest rates up to 23 per cent, as well as the 1989 airline pilots' strike.
	www.ericellis.com /spainskase1.htm (1882 words)

	PlanetPapers - Christopher Skase - the Sick Tycoon
		In the early 1980's a young confident man named Christopher Charles Skase became world famous by amassing a list of assets including a multi-million dollar company called Quintex, the channel 7 network, Mirage resorts and a number of extravagant houses across the world.
		Christopher Skase was born on the 18th of September 1948 in Melbourne, Australia.
		Skase is a fugitive, and he obviously had no intention of repaying any debt.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/840.php (589 words)

	LET'S GET SKASE movie review, In Film Australia
		When ambitious businessman Christopher Skase -- who once even owned MGM Studios -- fled Australia in 1995 after the financial ruin of his Quintex empire, he left a lot of his investors with no money, no chance of getting back, and only the figure of somebody to point the finger at.
		His cowardly exodus from responsibility made Skase a lot of enemies in a short amount of time, and hatred of the man electrified when the pubic began seeing photographs and video footage of him lapping in it in a Moracco island mansion.
		Who knows how Christopher Skase might have reacted to this quirky imagining of a revenge plot geared towards him, but one thing is for sure: he’s not going to be spending eternity losing sweat over the damage his death may have tolled on its box office earnings.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/letsgetskase.htm (738 words)

	Adjudication 1128
		Nor is the series of events that threw Skase and Dudley Braham together and that Skase secretly engineered from his position as a director to take over the public company.
		To illustrate "the Skase skills as a flatterer" the article also uses a story about Christopher and Pixie Skase visiting Braham's sick wife with a large hamper and an offer of use of their private jet.
		Christopher Skase's rise and fall is now part of Australian business history.
	www.presscouncil.org.au /pcsite/adj/1128.html (636 words)

	Let's Get Skase (AU - DVD R4) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
		Christopher Skase wasn’t a very popular man in Australia, being responsible for a large number of people losing large amounts of money.
		The recent death of Christopher Skase has only served to keep him in the news long enough for this film to become particularly topical.
		The stock footage of Denton’s show and Skase himself is of a lesser quality than the rest of the film but this is to be expected, both because of the source material and the aesthetic choice from the Director so that the clips were distinct from the rest of the movie.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/lets-get-skase.html (1577 words)

	Pixie Skase still calls Australia her home - National - www.smh.com.au
		Mrs Skase returned to Australia in November after fleeing overseas with her husband in 1991 when his business collapsed with personal debts of $170 million and corporate debts of $1.7 billion.
		In interviews with the media that year, Christopher Skase compared giving up his citizenship to throwing away a pair of "smelly socks", and his wife vowed she would never return to Australia.
		Ms Forgie said it was important that Mrs Skase should not be punished for the sins of her husband, "perceived or otherwise", and that her application should be judged on its own merit.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Pixie-Skase-still-calls-Australia-her-home/2005/04/08/1112815729455.html (473 words)

	Comments on 9516 \| MetaFilter
		There'll be certain elements in the media who'll doubt the death of Christopher Skase.
		It didn't really matter that the funds that Skase had supposedly stashed away would only be a drop in the ocean when it came to paying off debts - or that some commentators thought he could beat the charges he was facing.
		Such was the environment Skase generated that in 1997, when Attorney-General Darryl Williams made a pragmatic move to abandon the extradition proceeding, he was immediately ordered back on the hunt by an angry PM.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/9516 (472 words)

	Christopher - FAQ - Encyclopedia Trivia
		One of the quizzes states that Christopher Reeve died of a broken neck.
		Christopher Colombus set out from Spain on a mission to travel west across the ocean in order to get to which country, India, or China?
		What is the RC church's current position on St. Christopher, is he still considered the patron saint of travelers, or has he now been reduced in rank to a mere myth?
	www.funtrivia.com /en/faq/Christopher.html (416 words)

	Seven Network: Skase & Qintex
		It has been suggested that Skase was to benefit from a 'success fee', apparently undisclosed and paid offshore, of $29 million.
		Skase apparently planned to fund the purchase by 'sweating' the MGM assets in consumer markets - a strategy successfully followed by Kerkorian in licensing the library for VCR and DVD sales - and by pre-selling the rights to Japanese investors.
		Those pictures of Skase basking in the sun with his family cooling off in the pool were enough to convince the federal government the following day that the bankruptcy laws, at least as they apply to the return of passports to bankrupts facing charges and creditors, ought to be changed immediately.
	www.ketupa.net /seven1.htm (1617 words)

	News items
		FUGITIVE businessman Christopher Skase has died in Spain, a journalist and friend of the family said.
		Mr Skase, 53, was readmitted to hospital on the island hideaway of Majorca on July 11 for chemotherapy.
		He said Mr Skase had returned home on the advice of his doctors, who were expecting his death.
	www.auspaytv.com /news/aug01/01080601.htm (530 words)

	Christopher Skase - the Sick Tycoon - Online Essay
		By 1991 Skase a seasoned overseas traveller failed to return to Australia.
		The Spanish courts moved quickly sending notice to Skase to leave Majorca by the 23rd July 1998 due to his lack of citizenship.
		Realising that he could be extradited to Australia since being stateless, Skase moved quickly to obtain a passport.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/issues/iss067.php (468 words)

	6 August 2001 - Christopher Skase
		Mr Skase had been wanted in Australia to face more than 60 serious criminal charges related to the collapse of the Qintex group and the alleged misappropriation of more than $10 million from shareholders.
		While the most recent action regarding Mr Skase's deportation from Spain was a matter between Mr Skase and the Spanish authorities, it was appropriate that the Commonwealth take all possible measures towards securing Mr Skase's return to Australia to face those charges.
		Mr Skase's use of overseas tax havens and company structures has made it difficult to track down his assets and their ownership.
	www.ag.gov.au /agd/www/justiceministerhome.nsf/Page/Media_Releases_2001_3rd_Quarter_6_August_2001_-_Christopher_Skase (220 words)

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		Christopher began studying the piano and taking voice lessons as a child.
		Christopher Skase - The Sick Tycoon - In the early 1980's a young confident man named Christopher Charles Skase became world famous by amassing a list of assets including a multi-million dollar company called Quintex, the channel 7 network, Mirage resorts and a number of extravagant houses across the world..
		Christopher Skase was born on the 18th of September 1948 in Melbourn...
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	Adjudication 997
		But neither then nor later was the complainant given the chance to rebut the reference to Skase, based on the paper's belief that she had been elusive and the TCC had been unable to serve the summons over a period of several years.
		The Press Council agrees that Mr Skase's avoidance of attempts to return him to Australia to face charges of corporate dishonesty has become so notorious that a comparison with him over "dodging" court orders could be extremely damaging.
		There is conflicting evidence about Ms Walkden's addresses over the period when she was being sought for the summonses to be served and the Press Council is not in a position to test the evidence.
	www.presscouncil.org.au /pcsite/adj/997.html (421 words)

	SKASE GROWS PLUMP IN THE SPANISH SUN By ERIC ELLIS
		Far from being virtually penniless as Skase claims to be, it has been estimated that up to $US500,000 has been spent modernising La Noria since the Skases moved in last October.
		When the Herald inquired about Skase at La Noria, an Australian man called Brian confirmed that he knew him and that he was "an acquaintance from a long time ago".
		Christopher Skase gets his medical certificates from a Dr Onofe Alba Vidal, who practices at the Medisport clinic in Palma.
	www.ericellis.com /spainskase.htm (1409 words)

	Pixie Skase comes home to see her grandchildren - National - www.smh.com.au
		Pixie Skase's friend, Peter Sawyer, a Brisbane public relations consultant, said she was back to see her grandchildren.
		Mrs Skase, 62, flew into Melbourne yesterday and was driven away in a chauffeur-driven car, reportedly to Mount Macedon.
		But Mr Donnelly said yesterday that as far as he was aware Mrs Skase's assets consisted of a $1 million payout from her husband's life insurance, which was not available for creditors.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Pixie-Skase-comes-home-to-see-her-grandchildren/2004/11/22/1100972329461.html (474 words)

	DVD Bits - Region 4 and Region 1 DVD news, reviews, resources, PC-DVD, hardware
		Skase was the guy who fled to the Island of Majorca off the coast of Spain after the collapse of his massive Qintex empire.
		This is a reasonably good transfer, and for the most part it is quite clear, although shadow detail is not the greatest and there is some minor background noise to be observed in some of the darker interiors such as the board room scene during chapter 6 (42.05 minutes).
		The footage above is combined with some rather grainy stock footage of the real Christopher Skase (as opposed to the scenes featuring actor Wayne Hassell near the end of the film), presumably taken from real life news reports amid all the allegations and the collapse of the Qintex empire back in the 1990’s.
	www.dvdbits.com /reviews.asp?id=973 (1137 words)

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