Crocodile Dundee Blocked From Leaving Australia Until He Pays Multi-Million Dollar Tax Debt
Posted on Aug 25, 2010 @ 12:38PM
Paul Hogan, the star of Crocodile Dundee, has been banned from leaving Australia until he pays a multi-million-dollar tax bill, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Hogan, 70, who lives in Los Angeles his American wife, Linda Kozlowski and their 12-year-old son, Chance, returned to Sydney for the funeral of his 101-year-old mother last Friday.
But when he went to leave his native country, the screen star was prevented from boarding a flight because of a prohibition order from the local taxman.
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The comedian is now virtually a prisoner in Australia.
The order prevents Hogan from leaving Australia until any alleged tax debts are paid or arrangements made for the tax liability to be discharged.
The Australian tax office served Hogan with a bill last month for tax on $37.6 million of undeclared income.
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Hogan's lawyer, Andrew Robinson, said the actor was “stunned and very disappointed” that his own Government could treat him as a flight risk.
"The process of detaining Paul in Australia, away from his wife and child in Los Angeles, has devastated Paul,” Robinson said.
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“He will continue to defend his position through all available legal and other channels."
Hogan reached international fame as Mick "Crocodile" Dundee in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee which went on to become Australia's most successful film and won Hogan a Golden Globe for best actor.
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Does he have duel citizenship?
Posted Sat, 08/28/2010 - 11:44am
YEP, that is him but the pic is a bad one. I saw other pics and he has regular eye lines, and forehead wrinkles so I apologize about the plastic surgery comment. How do these stars get away with owing so much for so long?
Posted Thu, 08/26/2010 - 8:58am
maxandtaz: that is exactly what I thought when I saw the pic...this is NOT HIM. Or else he has had so much plastic surgery that he now loooks like Dawber. I'm going to look for more recent pics of him and see...
Posted Thu, 08/26/2010 - 8:55am
That's not Crocodile Dundee that's Dawber from Coach!
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 8:10pm
What goes around...comes around.
I'm sure the first wife and five children find this amusing. I wonder how the homewrecker Linda feels?
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 4:48pm
She'll probably dump him, since the money train's about to derail.
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:05pm
Karma's a you-know-what. He ditched his wife, the mother of his 5 kids for his costar. I have zero sympathy for him.
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 4:31pm
Paul Hogan has lived in the USA for decades. I think Austrailia is over stepping their ground here. I'd bet he lives in this country with a permanent visa and the Aussies think he owes them something when in fact, he does not.
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 4:18pm
Wow, it doesn't even look like him.
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 2:38pm
Crocodile Dundee movies were 30 years ago LMFAO. Sheesh, buy a clue here lol.
Posted Wed, 08/25/2010 - 4:14pm