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James Packer’s slipped Crown: a victim of sleaze – and snobbery

10 February 2021

3:57 PM

10 February 2021

3:57 PM

Melbourne legend tells that days before Crown Casino opened senior police visited the next largest gambling place in town, a less than legal operation than ran in premises on the opposite side of the CBD — premises with plenty of exits into laneways — to tell them that the gig was up.

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