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Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an Australian businessman noted for his high-profile and often corrupt business dealings. These included his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s; the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history; and also his criminal conviction that saw him serve four years in prison.
- He was a sign writer before he was a multimillionaire. Alan Bond was born in England in 1938 and moved to Australia with his family aged 12. He began his working life as a sign writer in Perth but moved into property development and quickly made a fortune.
- He was Australia's America's Cup hero. Youtube Australia II wins 1983 America's Cup. Alan Bond celebrates America's Cup win. Mr Bond helped bankroll Australia's bid to break the US stranglehold on the America's Cup.
- He was named Australian of the Year. Mr Bond's support of Australia's America's Cup dream made him a public hero and saw him awarded the honour of Australian of the Year — jointly with Indigenous leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu — in 1978.
- He was honoured, then dishonoured. In 1984, Mr Bond was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), an honour which is "awarded for distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or humanity at large".
SYDNEY, Australia — Alan Bond, who bankrolled Australia’s historic victory in the 1983 America’s Cup yacht race, and who was also a brash billion-dollar dealmaker who was sent to jail for what at...
Jun 5, 2015 · CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Alan Bond, the polarizing global entrepreneur who became an Australian hero by bankrolling a historic America’s Cup yacht race victory before going to prison over the nation’s biggest corporate fraud, died on Friday. He was 77.
Jun 5, 2015 · Alan Bond, the flamboyant Australian businessman who funded the country's historic 1983 America's Cup victory before losing his fortune and his freedom, died on Friday.
In a working life that began in a sign-writing business in 1959, Alan Bond rose to stunning prominence as a global entrepreneur and a symbol of Australian can-do enterprise.
Jun 5, 2015 · Controversial Australian businessman Alan Bond has died at the age of 77, his family have announced. Mr Bond died on Friday morning at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth days after...
