Gretel Packer

Packer is the daughter of Kerry Packer AC, a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer AC. She is the granddaughter of Sir Frank Packer. She is a former student of Ascham School.^[5]

Following the death of her father and an estimated A$1.2 billion settlement^[3] in 2015 with her brother, James, she inherited investments in Crown Resorts, and other companies.^[6]

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,^[7] 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.^[8][9][10]

Packer had two children to her first husband, Nick Barham, whom she divorced in 1999;^[1] and one child to her second husband, Shane Murray, whom she married in late 2005 and divorced in 2007.^[2]

As of May 2025^[update], Packer's net worth was assessed as A$2.33 billion by the Financial Review in the 2025 Rich List.^[11] Forbes Asia magazine assessed Packer's net worth at US$1.6 billion in January 2019.^[12]

Year	Financial Review Rich List		Forbes Australia's 50 Richest
	Rank	Net worth (A$)	Rank	Net worth (US$)
2017[13][14][15]
2018[16]	61	$1.26 billion
2019[17][12]	80	$1.16 billion	26	$1.60 billion
2020[18]	56	$1.77 billion
2021[19]	50	$2.30 billion
2022	56	$2.00 billion
2023[20]	61	$2.09 billion
2024[21]		$2.20 billion
2025[11]	71	$2.33 billion

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