Crocodile Dundee (1986) Australian Version?

[Gaffer]

Originally Posted by levcore

a bit off topic but what does Paul Hogan do for money? The successes of Crocodile Dundee are many decades ago and he only seems to crop in a few things here and there over the years, yet appears to live very comfortably in a big house in LA. Same for his ex wife i guess, both are actors you didn't really see a huge amount of outside of crocodile dundee.

No one knows for certain how much he made from Crocodile Dundee but its rumoured to be over $100 million so he never has to work again.

[PT Ryan]

Originally Posted by Gaffer

No one knows for certain how much he made from Crocodile Dundee but its rumoured to be over $100 million so he never has to work again.

Probably got lots of investments as well.

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Gaffer

No one knows for certain how much he made from Crocodile Dundee but its rumoured to be over $100 million so he never has to work again.

Thanks, that's crazy but would explain it.

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by Gaffer

No one knows for certain how much he made from Crocodile Dundee but its rumoured to be over $100 million so he never has to work again.

It's all rather involved.

He was a tax exile in the US for decades after funnelling - with the assistance of a shady operator - a load of the profits from Crocodile Dundee into offshore accounts, away from the eyes of the Australian tax office. This was a sum estimated by authorities at around $150m, but the guy who masterminded the whole thing turned out to be Australia's biggest tax-fraud artist, and his confiscated laptop blew the lid on Hogan's hidden cash. He scarpered from authorities, stealing $34m from Hogan's Swiss bank account as he did so.

Once the tax office were through with Hogan (they came to an "arrangement" in 2012) he was reportedly down "tens of millions", according to someone who worked on the case. Just after this came the divorce from Linda Kozlowski, costing him a further $6m+.

When you add all that up, he is probably very comfortable, but by no means the super-rich guy he was.