Gibson stepped down as Kay & Burton managing director and sold his shareholding three years ago but remained as an agent. He left the agency in November.
In October, he helped to sell the most expensive house sold at auction in Australia, when Sam Gance, the owner of Chemist Warehouse, and wife Janet Roach, The Real Housewives of Melbourne reality-TV show star, dropped about $43 million on a five-bedroom, four-bathroom, six-car Toorak trophy home. The Lansell Road mansion has a cinema room, leisure centre, kitchen with a wood-fired pizza oven, chicken rotisserie and teppanyaki grill, and an adjoining service wing containing a laundry, powder room, mud room and housekeeper’s room.
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LOST AND FOUND
International tennis megastars are just as forgetful as the rest of us. Or so some sources close to Melbourne’s Olympic Park would have us believe with an incident regarding Rafael Nadal that went down last week before he clinched the men’s final and strode into the history books.
On a day between matches, the Mallorcan tennis star nipped to Melbourne’s bouji Capital Golf Course for a leisurely round. And while there’s no word on the star’s form on the course, we’re told that there was near-miss when the tennis pro put down his distinctive ice-blue Richard Mille RM-27 wristwatch in the golf cart and then forgot about it.
Thankfully, it didn’t turn into a Cat-5 crisis. If the source is to be believed, an attendant returned the million-dollar timepiece after finding it in the cart. In the blanket coverage since Rafa’s history-making, 5½-hour win, it has been impossible to miss the timepiece on his wrist as he clutched his trophy. As Gear Patrol reported on the match against Russian Daniil Medvedev: “Impressive tennis and horology on display.”
So did it really happen? We’re taking Tennis Australia’s silence in response to questions as a yes.
ITALIAN LEATHER
What to buy the legislator who has everything? Presumably, it’s a question the inner circle of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi contemplated at length before sending Prime Minister Scott Morrison a Christmas gift. Parliamentary disclosures reveal Italy’s central banker prime minister gave Morrison a black leather briefcase from Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo for Christmas.
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But don’t expect the PM to be carting his papers around in the luxury leather satchel. He’s surrendered it to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Other international leaders also engaged in festive season gift-giving. Indonesian President Joko Widodo presented the PM with an ornamental horn and silver miniature gong which was also surrendered to the department. Is that the political equivalent of a regifting drawer? Or a safeguard against a repeat of the US government’s walkabout bottle of whisky debacle.
WHISKY WITH A Y
Speaking of which, Macarthur MP Mike Freelander scored a stonker from blinds manufacturer Wynstan who gifted the paediatric expert a bottle of Glenlivet Scotch Whisky valued at $700 in late January. Must be some tipple.
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