A return to cheap wine?
Sadly, success of a financial kind has not always followed rocker Jimmy Barnes or his wife.
On Monday, Barnes's wife, Jane, was made bankrupt by the Australian Taxation Office over unpaid debts of $440,000. This isn't the first time the Barneses have been in the financial doghouse. In 1994 Barnes sold the family pile in the Southern Highlands for a substantial loss and, with his family, headed off to rental accommodation, albeit in the south of France.
Before leaving Australia, Jimmy and Jane Barnes's company, Dirty Sheet Music Pty Ltd, was wound up with reported debts of $4.7 million to entities such as record companies, the Tax Office and the bank.
And poor Jane's entrepreneurial skills have been none too successful, although her choice of business partners perhaps didn't help. Her free-range chicken farm lost its feathers and her partner in that venture later ended up in a different kind of coop for manufacturing amphetamines.
