This is a photo of Mariah Carey arriving in Italy – via a private plane, I’m assuming – a few days ago. She captioned the photo “Ciao Italia!!! #yay #vacation #italy.” I would have posted some of the photos of Mimi and her kids in Capri but unfortunately Mimi’s crazy cleavage was out so you’ll just have to go look for yourself.
You might wonder to yourself, “Hey, is it just Mariah, Morroccan and Monroe on vacation?” You would be right to wonder. Because Mariah has a new boyfriend, apparently. Mariah and her kids are staying on a yacht belonging to James Packer. He’s a billionaire, an Aussie, and it was a pretty steady rumor that he was “dating” Miranda Kerr for a while (Packer even got into a messy brawl with another dude and it was sort of related to how Packer might have left his wife for Miranda). TMZ got a photo of Packer and Mariah together on Friday in Capri, and TMZ reports:
Mariah Carey has got a new boyfriend, TMZ has learned, a billionaire who’s the 4th wealthiest person down under. The guy is James Packer, a 47-year-old entertainment mogul who sold a media company and now owns a string of hotels and casinos around Australia and other countries. He’s worth an estimated $4.6 billion, according to Forbes.
They’re staying on Packer’s yacht and we’re told they’ll be on the boat for “an extended vacation.” After Capri, it’s on to Cannes and St. Tropez.
As for how they met … Brett Ratner. Sources close to Mariah tell us James has been aggressively pursuing Mariah for months, and he succeeded.
Do you believe that Packer aggressively pursued Mariah… and she said no to him for months? I do not. Mariah is a diva, for sure, and she has some issues, but Mariah knows that when a billionaire is interested in your gin-soaked ass, you better pick up the phone and arrange the date. So… I guess Packer is no longer with Miranda. I wonder what happened there.
Here’s Packer with Brett Ratner:
Photos courtesy of Mariah’s Instagram, Getty, Fame/Flynet, WENN.
I hope he likes crazy women.
Blech. He’s hideous.
Beyond hideous but the benjamins will more than make up for it.
No, no they don’t.
I’m with you NYer. Don’t matter how many benjamins. I don’t know how some people do it, or does the money really blind a person?
He’s Australian. We don’t call our money Benjamins.
MNDropper
Then what would you call someone in that context?
And it applies for Benjamins in this case since the term has crossed over internationally. Plus, it’s spoken from what Mariah could see in him as well as some posters here. His homeland currency doesn’t matter from that perspective.
Does it matter what we call money?
Still better than Casper Smart.
He looks like Shrek, but he also looks like he would be a lot of fun, especially in the sack
Why?
MNDropper
I could tell you why I agree with Tristan, but that’s best not covered in this forum.
I disagree with you there. I hope this is allowed, but I attached a link of him at a beach and I think he’s about par looks wise with Mimi.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/james-packer-looks-fitter-than-ever-as-he-emerges-from-the-surf-at-bondi/story-e6frfmq9-1226504551353
I would ask if she is dating or yacht girling Packer, but I would think Mariah has enough money she doesn’t need to yacht girl……
She is just happy to be with a man with more money than her.
No more grubbing Nick Cannon
“grubbing”?
Packer looks like a pickled porker.
I am rooting for Mariah, I am. But it has always seemed to me that she has serious emotional issues, since the music industry is largely controlled by executives and PRs, so is her career because she’s not solely responsible for it. Unfortunately the same can’t be said about her personal life. I always remember the Luis Miguel fiasco when she had that breakdown. Hopefully it doesn’t happen here with this man who is obviously a playboy.
Luis Miguel destroys every woman he’s been with. The mother of his two kids has been living in crazy town since he dumped her years ago. The same can be said for dozens of models, actresses and socialites he has “dated”.
So yes, I hope Mariah can find a good man that can help her go back to normal.
I think the only who escaped was Daisy Fuentes. I don’t know what he does to destroy them so much emotionally.
Miranda aside, this guy isn’t a playboy. At least not in the traditional sense. Sure his type is models, but he romances one at a time for years on end and has married some of them. Best description is serial monogamist with an ATM wallet.
I didn’t know. Thanks for clarifying.
If you pick women based on a job description of “model, singer, or actress” and then dump them a scant few years later because they’ve outworn their welcome, you are a playboy, plain and simple.
We are all made of stars: that’s just your personal prejudice because he is a modeliser. If he was doing the same thing with women who happened to be librarians, you’d never call him that.
The dictionary definition of a playboy is a love ’em and leave ’em type irrespective of profession of the women, with no emotional entanglements, who changes his women every year or months and sometimes several women at once.
As far as we know, JP has only been with 8 women since his love life became a gossip item. Most of them came in his 20s as every normal 20something male does. In the past 15yrs, he has been with 3 women that he was either engaged to, or married to (twice). Miranda and Mariah are rumoured, so we can’t know for sure, but even so, they have both come after a very long settled period (sort of) for him.
Well, librarians don’t have their job essencially attached to their looks, so I guess that’s the point of We Are All Made Of Stars.
Oh dear. He is a chronic cheater and that is why all of his exes left him. He is a playboy and a disgusting pig too.
You have an interesting side point here, I think, in that she had her life run in a very traumatizing way by Tommy Motolla and this guy seems to be more in that same mold. Worldly power, control, and money and valuation of women for what they make him look like and not much else apparently.
Brett Ratner as a matchmaker……….
Says a lot, doesn’t it?
…..everything
Two pigs in a blanket.
This reminds me of the comment the great miss Clairee made at Shelby’s wedding in Steele Magnolias “looks like two pigs fighting under a blanket”
This will not last. As an aussie I shake my head at packer, he had a beautiful wife and 3 beautiful children but the man is stupid.
He doesn’t have his 3 beautiful children anymore? What happened?
Haha
Didn’t he marry his wife in a Sci wedding? I seem to remember in the TomKat hey day, Tommy Girl was recruiting him hard and they had a Sci wedding and Katie and Tommy went. I wonder if he’s still involved with that pack of nuts.
Mariah was at the WalMart shareholders meeting. My friend said she was Looking really chubby and was kind of hot mess. She said when she sang her song that she was embarrassed for her!
Yes, she does look chubby. Poor lady, her face shows it too
The clothes she chooses doesn’t help. My goodness that pink little frock – All I hear in my head is Chris Farley from SNL “big girl in a little dress.”
Just hope Mariah don’t join the Sci-Fi church, now she is dating this guy, because hooking up to an e-meter is not going to do her much good.
Packer is a Scientologist? Now I do feel sorry for Mariah. Run, girl, run.
Ah, OK. I was trying to understand why, if this gross guy has models throwing themselves at him, he pursued Mariah. Maybe it’s all a CO$ plot.
Packer’s dad was the $ci, but he distanced himself from the church years ago.
That is absolute crap, KP was never a scientologist, he would have run a mile from that bullsh*t, it was just James for a few months thanks to Tommy Girl.
No he isn’t a C0$. Tom Cruise tried to recruit him a few years back, but JP very publicly distanced himself from it.
Not that big a deal. They are dating, so what? They can enjoy each other’s company for however long and move on when it gets boring. If he left a wife and three kids, it’s nothing to do with Mariah. People (women) always look at a man as to his potential as a permanent partner, if he’s marriage material, etc. That is not how it works nowadays…..shallow, yes, but it’s the reality. It’s about enjoying life right now, not reading the paper with your spouse at the kitchen table when you’re 80.
Is this the guy that whatsherface (married to Orlando Bloom) had an affair with when he was still with his wife (I think she and Orlando had already split up)? Both couple’s were friends.
Yes that’s the guy. I don’t remember if he was still married at that point tho.
I didn’t realize she was hurting for money. The *only* explanation that comes to mind.
I think James packer pays for his girlfriends.
Packer reminds me of the Giant in GoT episode “Hardhome”.
Wun Wun!
😂😉
MIranda Kerr was with this guy? I know he’s a billionaire, but he’s so different looking from Orlando (and, er, uh, Justin Bieber…)
And Leo….
Oh yeah, him too!
She looks like she lost some weight, and good for her, but that coral teenage dress with the sit-around-the-house-sweater is making me stabby.
In (very “cozy”) photos of the two in Capri, she is wearing an orange maxi dress which shows off the lady lumps, and a daggy black cardi over the top – the sort we wrap ourselves in to watch telly on the couch on a rainy Sunday arvo.
Interestingly, his first wife is also in Capri with her mum and sister. Even more interestingly, he and Mariah met up with the first wife (Jodhi Meares, who’s also been in the news due to her ex-fiancé’s escapades) and there was a very awkward-looking photo of the three of them.
Anyone is better than Nick. If he wants to spend his considerable fortune, wining, dining and spoiling Mimi, more power to him. Have fun, you crazy kids!
Shrek and Mimi? This will require a HAZMAT team to clean it up.
James packer may not be the best looking man you could encounter, but its been heavily implied many times that he is well endowed with more than money.
Apparently Jon Hamm would be embarassed next to him.
If thats the case, more power to mariah:)
Hey, she should enjoy it. They’re both single and he’s loaded so have fun.
Really? Packer is Packin’. Nice. I think.
How do you go from Miranda Kerr to Mariah Carey?? Their differences in ages, looks, sizes and personalities is so weird to me. Does this guy not have a type?
That’s what I was wondering, too.
I was wondering that too. Usually guys have a preferred body type and stick to it
Maybe his type is famous.
Male famewhore. Any broad that gets him ink is his type.
Yes. Anyone with a heartbeat and a pulse.
I don’t think Mariah Carey has a physical type either. Tommy Mottolla, Luis Miguel, Nick Cannon, and this guy all seem very different from each other looks-wise.
Well, both are pretty, dolled up and dumb…
Actually, usually he does and it’s brunette models. I remember Kate Fischer, then Jodhi Meares, then Erica Baxter, possibly Miranda Kerr. But I have never heard he’s a cheater or a bad guy necessarily. I would not call him a playboy.
He’s always been into brunette models. Busty ones. Kate Fischer (ex-fiancé), Jodhi Packer (née Meares – ex-wife), Erica Baxter (ex-wife), Miranda Kerr (ex-lover). Mariah is a new and interesting choice for him.
Because he has decided to harness star power, and turn his fathers business, which was based on TV and print media and funnel it all into Casinos. Where are the most Casinos? Las Vegas, who is a Las Vegas’ resident super famous showgirl? Mariah. So you see, he dates her for a quick minute, helps get his face and name known nationally and from there he starts to work on whatever his Las Vegas plans are. Its just because she may be a door opener in certain circles. Personally, I don’t know why he is wasting his time with the USA when he has all the contacts and set up and success in Macau. But whatever. I liked his Dad’s style, he made actual product, he helped shape Australia’s cultural landscape for better or for worse. But it is my belief that the profits from gambling is evil money, no good will come from it and he is setting his family up for a towering mess of karma. Just my opinion.
Maybe Packer is tired of women just wanting him for his money. Agree with others – wonder if Miranda Kerr is spitting chips at this news. I’m Australian and don’t know how I feel about Packer (making a fortune out of people’s gambling losses).
PS – none of Packer’s exes EVER speak ill of him. Not even Kate Fischer (Aussies know who she is). They must have received very good $ & asset payouts.
PPS – is that really Brett Ratner??!! Hehehehehe.
You’re correct , Caz – his exes never speak badly of him. Genuinely curious: Do they ever speak of him at all? I can’t remember… I do remember that when he and Kate broke up, she received a settlement of $10m. You’ll remember it was quite some time ago, and it was a huge settlement in those days, especially since they were only ever engaged. I recall Kate going to the U.S. after that, and that she has and/or does come back to Australia, but I wonder what became of her? It’s time to Google “Whatever happened to Kate Fischer…”
It’s funny you should ask, LoLo. In reports I’ve read and seen here in Australia, “His Type”4 has been heavily covered. First there was his fiancée, Kate Fischer, then first wife Jodhi Meares and second wife, Erica Baxter. Add Miranda Kerr in after that… All were/are tall, brunette models. The reports are saying he’s strayed from his type…
Brett Ratner’s face just screams “Punch me!”, doesn’t it?
Wow he’s ugly. I would never date him, no matter how much money or power he has.
Also I was expecting to see a much worse photo of mariah when Kaiser said can’t post it because of her crazy cleavage. I thought she would be with her boobs out or something.Someone’s prude here.
Agree about the picture! Kylie’s photos are just as “booby” and at least Mariah is an adult woman!
Same. There was nothing crazy about those pics.
I wish ‘ole Mariah nothing but the best, and frankly, I don’t care who she dates. But will someone PLEASE tell her that at her current weight she looks awful in the minis or tight dresses she insists on wearing. Her porky legs and chubby knees look awful. She’s just ‘thick’ all over and hey, who cares, but you just have to dress for it. She’s getting a little better, (the black dress looks good, and the blue dress, while too short, is fine), but the red dress look terrible a with two stuffed sausages sticking out of the bottom.
Meh. She’s fine. Aside from concern her weight could be from a sedentary lifestyle and poor nutrional habits I can’t care. I’m not on her medical team.
She looks happy.
^^^^yes
Seriously?? That red dress does nothing for her, well nothing positive. Knife pleats on someone her age? All over?? So beyond awful, and it makes her legs look downright chubby. Further proof money can’t buy good taste.
I’m pretty sure Kerr and Packer have always been just friends. Mariah Carey is getting comical with her cleavage-under-all-occasions policy. James Packer is gross and his father was horrible as well. If you’re going to control a massive empire, please go to college at least. One smart thing he did was sell off the media stuff and go into gambling. Smart if you’re soft on ethics and making money off people’s gambling addictions.
Awwwww, let her use him! She’s a handful and he has the money (and let’s face it, not much else). I love Mariah.
I detest this man, he’s so gross. I don’t care how much money he has, I wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole. Ugh!!