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"THE SENNA MADE IT": Multi-millionaire has McLaren craned up to Melbourne’s most expensive penthouse

<div class="post-action-bar-component-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-actions-component" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;"> <div class="upper-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: flex-end;"> <div class="right-box-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; color: #323338; font-family: Figtree, Roboto, Rubik, 'Noto Kufi Arabic', 'Noto Sans JP', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> <div class="post-editor-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p dir="ltr">Multi-millionaire Adrian Portelli has had his McLaren Senna GTR craned 57 storeys off the ground and into the most expensive penthouse in Melbourne.</p> <p dir="ltr">The 34-year-old bought the $39 million penthouse in April, and announced his plans to use a crane to lift his luxury sports car into the penthouse so that he can display it in the living room.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It’s a car that we can’t register, and it’s just collecting dust, so I might as well have it somewhere where it’s safe,” he told <em>7NEWS </em>last month.</p> <p dir="ltr">On Wednesday a crowd had gathered to watch Portelli’s dreams come true.</p> <p dir="ltr">The multi-millionaire took to Instagram to share his success.</p> <p dir="ltr">“THE SENNA MADE IT! A first look at the McLaren Senna GTR 57 floors up 🔥” he captioned the post.</p> <p dir="ltr">“A huge thank you to everyone involved for making this absolutely surreal moment happen,” he added, tagging the construction and investment companies who helped him achieve this.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Forever grateful.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He shared a follow up post with a series of images from the move and how proud he was to be able to achieve his dream.</p> <p dir="ltr">“When I went to bed last night I just giggled. Young Portelli would be proud. The one nobody knew 10 years ago,” he captioned the post.</p> <p dir="ltr">“If I can motivate and inspire people to want to succeed, my job is done because I understand how hard and lonely it is on the pursuit of success,” he added.</p> <p dir="ltr">Portelli has said that he plans to use his Melbourne penthouse as a weekend getaway, and admitted that he had looked at a few other penthouses during his property search, but unfortunately they didn’t have “that ‘wow’ factor”.</p> <p dir="ltr">The penthouse is located atop the Sapphire by the Gardens tower in the Melbourne CBD, and was set to<a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/property/real-estate/luxury-penthouse-could-set-records-with-eye-watering-price-tag" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> break records</a> for the most expensive penthouse back in March.</p> <p><em>Images: Instagram</em></p> </div>

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Iconic Madama Butterfly set used for wedding location

<p>A bride has made a unique entrance on her big day, with her and her entourage arriving to the ceremony by crane. </p> <p>Tahu Matheson and Ruth Thomas, both senior figures at Opera Australia, opted for an extraordinary venue for their nuptials, as they said "I do" on the elaborate set of <em>Madama Butterfly</em>: a production set in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens.</p> <p>For an added flair to their already extravagant nuptials, which boasted an uninterrupted view of the Sydney Opera House and glistening harbour waters, Ruth and her bridesmaids arrived via a crane, usually used to help build the set for the production. </p> <p>The pair tied the knot in front of 80 of their family and friends on the floating stage, with Tahu being shocked by his bride's dramatic entrance. </p> <p>"I'd arranged some soft, elegant slow music, Wagner's <em>Siegfried Idyll</em> for her to walk down the aisle to...and suddenly the dramatic <em>March of the Valkyries</em> from the ring cycle starts playing and I see her hovering above us in a crane, I was shocked," Mr Matheson told the <em><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/culture/opera/one-fine-day-indeed-madama-butterfly-stage-provides-set-for-real-life-wedding-20230411-p5czh4.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Sydney Morning Herald</a></em>. </p> <p><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2023/04/butterfly-wedding-crane.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="720" /></p> <p><em>Ruth and her bridesmaids arrived via the crane usually used to build the stage. Image credit: 9News</em></p> <p>"It was pretty windy up there we all got a bit giggly and nervous," he added.</p> <p>The crane's cage, which was decorated with flowers and fabric, hoisted the bride and her three bridesmaids up above the wedding party, then lowered them at the feet on the gobsmacked groom.</p> <p>Siobhan Keely, a bridesmaid, joked about overcoming her fear of heights before the stunt. </p> <p>"For someone who does suffer from vertigo, it's an absolute testament of my love for this women that I've agreed to join her in this spectacular entrance," she told <em>9News</em>.</p> <p>In the production of <em>Madama Butterfly</em>, the two main characters marry in the first act with a nightly fireworks display over the harbour sealing their vows, before their love story ends in tragedy.</p> <p>"I'm hoping that this story will be rather different," joked Mr Matheson. </p> <p><em>Image credits: 9News</em></p>

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Inside Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane’s secret double-life and unsolved murder

<p>Bob Crane will always be remembered for playing American hero Colonel Hogan in the hit ‘60s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, but a recent book published by his son Robert Crane has brought the television actor back to the public eye.</p> <p>The paperback, titled <em>Crane: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder</em>, has attempted to debunk the portrayal of the actor as a handsome, clean cut family man, while addressing rumours that surround his 1978 murder.</p> <p>“I was aware that he loved women and that he probably should not have been married,” Robert told <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Fox News</strong></em></span></a>. “He probably should have been a single guy because he was not the most faithful companion in the world. I was aware of that.</p> <p>“I was aware of his love of photography … When home video came out in the mid-60s, he had to have one of the first units. I was aware of him taping women with their consent … It was always consensual. There was nothing hidden. There were no drugs. Both people wanted to be there.”</p> <p>Crane’s sex addiction has long been an open-secret in Hollywood, and according to his son Robert there wasn’t much he did in the household to hide it from the family.</p> <p>“It wasn’t a secret,” insisted Robert. “It wasn’t a secret at all … Everybody knew that was his dark room … I was a teenager, probably around 15-16 years old when I saw my dad taping women on the road when he wasn’t doing Hogan’s.</p> <p>“You got to remember that back in the ’60s and ’70s, the home video was the selfie of today … Everybody wanted to do it. Including the women that he met. So I saw some videos of different women … I put two and two together.”</p> <p>Robert does have fond memories of his father however.</p> <p>“He was a fun-loving guy,” said Robert. “When he was at home, we had fun. He and I co-created a baseball league in our pool … I would be the LA Dodgers. He would be the New York Yankees. We had a schedule, we had a world series.</p> <p>“We did home movies. He did a movie and I [played] an FBI agent. My cousins where in it, my dad was in it … This project took months to get together and it was about eight minutes long. But those were the kinds of things we did. We just had a great time.”</p> <p>After his career faded into obscurity, in June 1978 Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale apartment, a murder which currently remains unsolved by authorities.</p> <p>Robert <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>addressed the incident in his interview</strong></em></span></a>.</p> <p>“The police took us to the crime scene,” he claimed. “My dad’s body had been removed. We walked around the crime scene … It was a joke. We were there touching stuff, contaminating the scene. I saw the actual bed that he was in when he was murdered. I saw blood. I think I saw brain matter on the wall.</p> <p>“The next morning, I went to the morgue and I saw my dad on a slab. I went in there, just looked at him … I touched his skin. I touched his cheek on his face and it reminded me of cool clay. I’ll never forget that … And then I had to report back to my mom and sisters. And they were all shrieking … And it turned out he was hit in the head twice while he was sleeping. And [the police] theorise with a tripod of a video camera.”</p> <p>What are your thoughts? Were you aware of this story?</p> <p><em>Hero image credit: Twitter / The Advertiser</em></p>

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