(Pictured: A typical Australian man)
After a legal battle with the Australian government that began a few years ago in the delightfully Australian-sounding investigation “Operation Wickenby“, Paul Hogan has been barred from leaving Australia until he pays US $34 million in taxes. In a related story, Paul Hogan is still alive. In another related story, Paul Hogan, whose IMDB page lists less than 10 movies, has made so much money that his tax bill alone is more than my entire family will make in our lifetimes. Is the Australian tax rate 982%? Please tell me this is so.
Hogan, 70, was served with a departure prohibition order 10 days ago while in Australia to attend his 101-year-old mother’s funeral which has prevented him from leaving to return to Los Angeles where he lives with his wife and son.
Additional trivia: despite living in Los Angeles, Hogan’s last American movie was 2001′s Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, which I’m sure you’ve all seen. He starred in an Australian movie last year called Charlie and Boots, which one IMDB reviewer described as “almost unbearably unfunny.” He’s married to his Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski, who was insanely hot back in ’86.
“I can’t pay 10 percent of what they’re asking…. bugger ‘em!” the actor told Australian television’s “A Current Affair” late Tuesday. [presumably while riding a kangaroo and gesturing wildly with a boomerang. -Ed]
“If I was a tax evader, which I’m not, I must be the dumbest one in the world to keep coming back here instead of fleeing to a tax haven … I know they’re absolutely desperate to nail some high-profile character with money to justify the expense to the taxpayer.”
Hogan, who was once a painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is under investigation as part of Australia’s biggest probe into offshore tax evasion, Operation Wickenby.
The operation is budgeted to cost at least $300 million. [Yahoo]
Paul Hogan went on to snort “Tax bill? That’s not a tax bill. THIS is a tax bill,” and pulled a wallaby out of his pants. I think he’s losing it.
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Wait how the fuck is he broke? The Crocodile Dundee Trilogy blu-ray boxset was 7th on the sales list last year, in his house
Linda Kozlowski WAS ridiculously hot in ’86. Kinda makes me wonder how she’s holding up now.
Damn, that’s too bad.
Wow, those paintings must have been really expensive!
When Quiggly hear about this he quickly went down under and shot Professor Snape in the neck.
So the years between 28 and 52 aren’t kind on the ladies Swi? Fuck that, Hit Girl is looking hotter Vince
Hmmm, ya, lunch time methinks.
He’s 70? Someone should talk to these Efron and Lautner fruits about paying their dues.
And taxes, I guess.
This is an outrage. They want to clip Crocodile Dundee’s wings while Yahoo Serious can just do as he pleases unmolested. As for Linda Kozlowski, I can think of a lot of worse looking broads in their 50s I’d still hit, a lot of them, right now.
They call Operation Wickenby a probe instead of a sting in deference to Steve Irwin.
It’s almost like the whole island is his prison…
Paul Hogan is the Australian Wesley Snipes
I’m sorry, but it’s hard to take a daywalking vampire slayer named “Boomerang” serious.
THAT’s not a debt, THIS is a….yeah…that’s a fucking debt alright.
Quick true story… I was mad at my girlfriend for making me sit through “Duets” in a completely empty movie theater without giving me a blow job. To make up for it, she took me to a late showing of “Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles” (knowing it would be empty) and did her thing. Not sure if that counts for actually seeing the movie, but there is cartainly an oddly satifsying combination of fellatio and Paul Hogan’s voice that is hard to convey in a first post…