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SIX years after a glittering VIP-studded sales launch, as few as 12 apartments totalling $20 million have settled in the $1.4 billion Jewel development. Scores of contracts in the striking triple tower are understood to have fallen over in the years since they were signed as the three glistening towers sit all but idle. The failed sales campaign is the latest puzzling revelation in the history of the project, which sits on the beach at southern Surfers Paradise. The cranes have gone and the finishing touches are being applied as Jewel neared its completion on the Gold Coast last year. Picture Glenn Hampson
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And his gambling? Internal emails from Crown, as reported by my colleague Nick McKenzie in 2019, showed exactly why Huang was so valued by the casino. He was gambling $200 million a year. In one casino in a single year. And that was before he moved to Australia.
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Once here, his punts at Crownâs tables increased âexponentiallyâ, according to an email written by Crownâs vice-president for VIP lifestyle marketing, Maxwell Wang, in 2015. Huang was gambling some $800 million a year on Crownâs tables. In a single year.
An excited Wang used him as a case study for Crownâs sales staff. Wang described Huangâs move to Australia as a âlifestyle eventâ. Wang wrote: âLifestyle events can help your customer increase turnover exponentially.â It is not suggested that Huang was gambling with anybodyâs money but his own. But did Crown know this for certain? Nobody asked. Nobody wanted to know. The example shows the frailty of
And his gambling? Internal emails from Crown, as reported by my colleague Nick McKenzie in 2019, showed exactly why Huang was so valued by the casino. He was gambling $200 million a year. In one casino in a single year. And that was before he moved to Australia.
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Once here, his punts at Crownâs tables increased âexponentiallyâ, according to an email written by Crownâs vice-president for VIP lifestyle marketing, Maxwell Wang, in 2015. Huang was gambling some $800 million a year on Crownâs tables. In a single year.
An excited Wang used him as a case study for Crownâs sales staff. Wang described Huangâs move to Australia as a âlifestyle eventâ. Wang wrote: âLifestyle events can help your customer increase turnover exponentially.â It is not suggested that Huang was gambling with anybodyâs money but his own. But did Crown know this for certain? Nobody asked. Nobody wanted to know. The example shows the frailty of