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| Russell & Oprah sailing today on Sydney Harbour |
She seems to have swept the nation of their feet-Oprah Winfrey's tour Down Under is generating the sort of excitement last seen when Princess Diana made her last public appearance in 1996.
As the Social Shuttle exclusively reported, young Bindi Irwin is to be a guest on one of the two Oprah shows to be filmed tomorrow at the Sydney Opera House in front of an invited audience of 7500. The lucky guest's names were drawn out of hat of over 340,000 who applied for the tickets.
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| Bindi Irwin |
Today Oprah sailed on Sydney Harbour with Russell Crowe and wife Danielle. Russell will be a guest on Oprah's show along with Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Hugh Jackman , Portia de Rossi and Olivia Newton John. Jon Bon Jovi will perform while John Foreman and his orchestra will play the finale of the 2 shows which are to be screened in the USA in early 2011.
On Thursday Oprah will be a guest at the re-opening party for the $660M re-vamped Star City Casino where Jon Bon Jovi will perform again. He'll be joined on stage by Bob Geldorf.
And Friday-she's off on a private holiday up north with her personal staff . Then we have to hope that amongst the 8% of Americans who have passports, some watch Oprah and will buy the expensive travelogue they see !
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| Shari-Lee & pal Lizzie Buttrose |
Appearing in the NSW Supreme Court today-Shari Lee Hitchcock who is demanding a bigger share of the estate of the late billionaire Dick Pratt.
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| Dick Pratt |
Shari Lee, whose 12 year old daughter Paula was fathered by Pratt is suing his widow Jeanne Pratt and the Pratt estate for a greater share. Paula was left a magnificent beach side house in Watson's Bay and a farm on the NSW south coast. There are also 4 properties in dispute that appear to be held by a maze of Pratt corporations: a multi million dollar Quay Apartmen,t 2 country properties and a paper mill in Tumut.
Despite daughter Paula also receiving $20M in cash both she and her mother claim they weren't left enough to live on by the late cardboard king. Dick Pratt died of cancer in 2009 leaving an estate valued at nearly $6B.
She's been protected from the public gaze by her sisters Pixie & Peaches and step-father Bob Geldorf but now 17 year old Tiger Lilly, the child of the late Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates has posted some pictures of herself on Twitter.
Not content with recording several shows at the Sydney Opera House and taking the country by storm, Oprah Winfrey and her 300 American pals being bussed into town by John Travolta will also be the honoured guests at a concert to re-launch the Star City Casino on December 15th which will headline a number of international acts.
Jon Bon Jovi, U2 and Bob Geldorf will perform in a private concert for 1500 invited guests that will include Winfrey, Cate Blanchett, Nicolle Kidman and Keith Urban, Hugh Jackman, Lachlan Murdoch and wife Sarah and James and Ercia Packer.