Mariah Carey and her billionaire lover might be OVER! I’m sad about it too. Mariah and James Packer were sort of the best example of the golddigger fairy tale. While Mariah is rich in her own right, she spends money like it’s going out of style and she likes it when someone takes care of her and buys her crazy jewelry. Packer fit the bill. They got engaged in January of this year, despite the fact that they were (and still are) technically married to other people. And now, according to an Aussie tabloid, they are over?
Billionaire casino mogul James Packer has dumped fiancé, pop star Mariah Carey after falling out over her new reality TV show and extravagant spending. The tycoon is understood to have walked away from the singer as she prepares to expose much of her glittering life on a new reality TV show, allowing her to keep the $10m diamond engagement ring he gave her in January.
“It’s all over,” confirms one close family friend. “James had huge reservations about Mariah’s new reality TV show and the fact that she was willing to expose their lives to the world.”
The news comes as no great shock to friends and relatives of the Packer family who have had reservations about the relationship ever since James started wooing the flamboyant singer in Las Vegas last year. Mariah, 46, created tension within the family after refusing to attend James’s sister Gretel’s 50th birthday in Sydney earlier this year, and his mother, society matriarch Ros Packer, struggled to connect with the singer.
There have rumours for weeks that the glamour couple were experiencing difficulties, particularly as Mariah devoted much of her time to a reality TV show about her life, which James, 49, was reluctant to participate in. The couple have spent hardly any time together in recent months amid increasing concerns among his friends about her lavish lifestyle and over the top spending sprees.
“James is very generous but Mariah takes it to the next level,” reveals one close friend. “When she refused to come to Australia for Gretel’s birthday party it created a lot of tension in the family. His mum hated to even hear her name mentioned, and James’ tight circle of friends never really thought they would marry.”
James has turned to his first wife, fashion designer Jodhi Meares for support since splitting with Mariah, who has been spending time with her ex-husband, Nick Cannon.
While Woman’s Day isn’t usually one of my go-to media outlets, I tend to think that they’re on to something in this case, mostly because they’re an Aussie tabloid and Packer is Australian, his home base is in Australia, and I think Woman’s Day might have some sources within the Packer family. And it’s clear that Packer is the one getting cold feet, like he suddenly came to his senses and realized that, oh right, Mariah is sort of a trainwreck. I mean, God love her, but she seems like one of the most high-maintenance women in the world. There are very few men, billionaire or not, who could put up with that. Hey, at least he’s letting her keep the ring?
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I don’t want this to be true! I was hoping for an OTT wedding and dramz filled divorce.
PS: not that I would wish them to divorce, but I just figured they would eventually so I wanted to be able to witness the Mariah madness.
Agreed! This relationship was good for gossip. But probably not for their actual lives.
What I would do with just that $10 million engagement ring 😭
Mariah might be a diva, but she also has no personality. Like it’s just air in her head. How does she have actual relationships with people outside if her career?
You know I thought the same thing too. The other week, I watched a few old Rosie episodes with Mariah Carey. I have to say she has morphed into this airhead character. I am not sure if it is an act to protect herself or if she is on something but this was not her personality pre and immediately post Tommy Mottola.
Maybe he tired of only being able to look at just one side of her face?
Hahaha. That killed me.
or having to watch Glitter?
How thoughtful of him to turn to his estranged wife for “support”.
Isn’t Packers’ ex seriously dating Seal?
That last line is the one that made me go ‘Hmm’. They’re BOTH seeking comfort from their exes? Yeah, maybe the whole story is made up; that’s a bit too much symmetry, and there’s no indication Mariah ever allows Nick to enter her consciousness anymore.
I’m shocked it lasted this long!
I know right? This marriage was never going to happen. Anyone who read anything about either person could see that. He simply doesn’t have the personality to put up with Mariah’s tenuous connection to reality for any length of time. All Mariah All The Time is simply too much Mariah.
I suspect he’s breathing a sigh of relief now that he’s thought this whole thing over. This could have been a very expensive marriage for him.
I’ll never forget the episode of MTV cribs with Mariah. Wearing stilettos on a stair climber and a silk teddy in a hot tub.
Seriously?? 😂😂
That was the best. It was also when she was in the midst of her GLITTER breakdown.
I swear to god i remember a picture of her walking on ice/snow in open toe stilettos and a leather mini skirt is Aspen.
One inch away from slipping and cracking her skull open.
That Cribs was epic. I think MTV even did a follow-up special with celebs taking about Mariah.
Part One: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98KH9GzgmIM
Part Two: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=St1BUHTcUQQ
Her Cribs Episode With Celebrity Commentary
Totally worth watching!
YESSSS!!!! I thought I was the only one who remembered that. I remember thinking at the time, so this is the monster Tommy M. created…
That’s honestly an Iconic episode I still talk about the butterfly counters and the Mermaid room madness to this day
I modeled my apartment to look exactly like her “Mermaid Room” – all light aqua blue walls and sandy colored furniture and gold mermaid statues.
Great. He did not deserve her. Now back to Kerr and the likes, rich troll.
Women’s Day is trash.
Story is BS
TMZ has the story now and loathsome as they are too, they’re usually right.
TMZ also implies “something bad happened” with him and Mariah’s assistant. Uh-oh.
I agree WD is trash but really you could print this story any day of the week and be pretty accurate. I mean come on, it was never going to last. The story writes itself really.
Rumors say that she is a horrible person, I think he was infatuated with a fantasy and once he was able to see the true side of her, he had to dump her.
She is all smoke and mirrors: fake smiles, tons of make up, affected manners and Diva attitude. Capital D.
I found her charming, self deprecating, and funny as hell when I was seated at her table at a Fresh Air Fund benefit a few years ago. Yeah, she’s over the top and high maintenance, but at least she knows it.
Thank you for sharing your experience with her. Mimi can be ridiculous but I will always have a soft spot for her. I’ve also heard she is quite generous to her inner circle. And yeah, she knows she’s over the top and I’m betting she sometimes puts on a show because she knows that’s what people expect.
Also, no one can do shade like Mariah.
There are a lot of stories floating around of her being just truly awful to underlings (not necessarily her staff, but PAs, etc). Mariah is nothing if not complicated.
Paranormalgirl, how much money did you donate to get to be seated at a table with Mariah Carey?!?!? Usually prime seating next to superstars (in all walks of life) is doled out to those that make a big financial commitment.
Remember the female SONY executive fired after Wikileaks? She exited intoning “All actors are endless pits of need.” She’s right.
Woman’s Day is absolute garbage. If there’s any truth to this they’ve just stumbled upon it accidentally. They print alternating break-up and pregnancy stories about every Aussie celeb constantly. For instance, literally every week for a decade now they’ve been saying Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are either having a baby or getting a divorce. One day they might be right, but it’s not because they have any inside sources anywhere.
+ infinity. Every Australian celeb sues WD. they are completely unreliable.
Two things: he pursued her because she was successful in her own right unlike the models he used to chase, then he realized that while these women were at his beck and call, Mariah was never going to play second fiddle, billions or not.
Second, why do we always have to use the “billionaire” qualifier whenever his name comes up? Just like Trump, we are so aware of said billions. Is that really the only thing that matters to define people, money? Why can’t we say “founder of….” Whatever business he owns, or father of three, or sports enthusiasm or something? Just a minor thing but I think it speaks to the general adulation of money in society….
It’s not like I couldn’t see it, but Women’s Day is even more unreliable than the likes of Star. They’ve had about 3 celebrities call them out on bs stories this week alone.
Can we stop calling every woman who ends up with a man with more money than her a gold digger? He chased her. She didn’t go looking for a rich man. And it is so ridiculous to think that a woman as rich as Mariah would need to gold dig on anyone. It’s really sexist. If she really cared about his money she would have done everything possible to keep him and obviously she didn’t.
^^ This.
“Mariah Carey maintains a high net worth of $520 million, and that should only increase thanks to her new Vegas residency.”
$520 mil is not chump change.
YES to this!
In every relationship there is most likely going to be one person who earns/is worth more than the other. That doesn’t mean that in every relationship there is one person who is ONLY in it for the money.
Back in the day, she had a small, serious, glammed down role as a social worker in that depressing movie Precious. She was good in it.
I always thought she was a strong actress, with great potential. Then… The butterflies. And pfffft. She was off the ground, never to return.
I wonder if she is just too difficult to work with, or too demanding for small character parts that she never really acted again. Too bad.
She was decent in that film.
I was just thinking about that. She definitely had acting potential. Reminded me of when I saw RuPaul in a stripped down dramatic role as a social worker or the like. He was terrific.
Aw, I liked them. Although it’s perfectly understandable.
I was in school with her since third grade. She was always very very shy and private. But man could she sing!!! I was friends with her as well. She was nice and not at all a bitch. Never. Although not a fan of her music, she is not a bad person. Never smoked, drank, did drugs, ran around with men. Very funny actually and quiet.
My friend in nyc works at a famous restaurant and saw her several times. She said Mariah seems to yo-Yo in weight pretty drastically .
The males on staff called her a fat pig behind her back which made me want to hit them.
The starve/binge cycle is horrible and really does a number on you physically and mentally, for some reason it’s all I can think of when I see Mimi.
I think Packer’s attention is focused on other things at the moment. Like several staff members being arrested in China, shares in his company taking a nose dive, and his new casino development being in big trouble if these issues in China continue.
James Packer and family used to own the Woman’s Day magazine.
Do you think that Packer’s PR is using the connection to tip-off an approaching break-up? Alternately, this could also be a ploy to garner publicity to Mariah’s TV show.
The second he watched her fall down the stairs while he sat in that gondola, and didn’t flinch a muscle or even move to help her – that was a total “Mariah, you in trouble gurl” moment.
My thought too.
Exactly!
Same.
I’ve always thought every woman has been a beard for him. Look at the pattern. He gets into a high profile relationship, settles for a period and then pays them off after the “breakup”.
Oh no, I am shocked…oh wait, no I am not. I cannot imagine any man putting up with this high maintenance diva…ugh.
Well, he wanted a trophy, why is he surprised when said trophy wanted to shine and glitter?
As shallow and materialistic as she is, Packer seems like a complete douchecanoe; she is well rid of him.
Can Not Wait For This Show!!!! M is the only one out there that I love her diva-ness.
I can’t imagine anyone signing up to be with her. Too cray and ridiculous.
I think SHE is the one who had a narrow escape. She deserves better.
I’ll never forget when Cameron Diaz said if you want to see her go crazy lock her in a room playing nothing but Mariah Carey songs….. Mariah was so offended.
Scientology is working hard at bringing him back into the fold.
Tommy Davis is the general manager of his North American Investment firm. At one time James was the wealthy member of the church, if they are working to bring him in they would definitely tell him to get rid of Mariah. They would be too afraid they could not control her. Hmmm interested to see how this will play out.
Tommy Davis left the $ci fold a while ago and is very much persona non-grata. And Packer’s dad was the $ci devotee more than James ever was. I don’t doubt that the CO$ would give their left testicles to have Packer back in the fold, I just wonder if he would really be that interested.
He never deserved her, she is a diva and he should have known what he was getting into. she is farrrr from broke. MiMi cracks me up, LOL! I’ll keep watching on this one.
I’m not running w/this one, WD is low on the media rung, very low.
Why would she want to do reality t.v.
I don’t know if there is any truth to this story, but a word of warning: ‘Woman’s Day’ and ‘New Idea’ have become complete jokes over the past few years, and have started completely inventing their stories from scratch.
They get basic details wrong (things that are factual and on public record), but invent complete nonsense every week. As in: one week, Nicole Kidman (age 49) is pregnant, the next week she and Keith Urban are splitting, a week later, they are “so in love”, and the next week Keith has joined the Church of Scientology. A month later, Nicole is pregnant again.
If you come across one of their old issues in a doctor’s waiting room, it is hilarious just how wrong every single story is. You would think that the laws of probability would mean that they would hit on the truth occasionally by accident, but no – every single story, every single detail is 100% bogus. They are not even printing rumours – it’s just a bunch of clueless Australian staffers sitting around inventing stuff out of thin air.
This Packer thing MIGHT have legs, but the source is unreliable, to say the least.
Mariah’s side is commenting now. Turns out even a broken clock is right twice a day
Several weeks ago I saw a pic of her and it looked like she had a different ring on THAT finger. I Googled her but no one was saying they broke up. I knew something didn’t seem right. I don’t know anything about him but she seems like pain in the ass.
About a year ago Tommy Davis had to give a deposition in a Texas case against the Church of Scientology brought by a woman named Rathbun. His testimony was published online at the time. He was very supportive of CofS and did not say that he is no longer a member. He only said that he is no longer a member of the Sea Org – a specialty division of the CofS.
He and his wife were both Sea Org members and both left the Sea Org. Then they had a child. (Sea Org members are not allowed to have children.) Since both his and her family are still deeply involved with CofS, it is doubtful that they have left the church.
Cof S always wants their very wealthy members to come back to the church.
Is anyone really surprised by this? Mariah loves being a diva – everything in her life is about her. I don’t think she ever loved the guy. She was having fun with his money but then she got bored. Mariah loves herself too much to be a good partner to anyone. And he was not good looking at all!