Australia tycoon Packer's ex-wife Meares facing jail: reports

Sydney (AFP) - Australian gaming tycoon James Packer's ex-wife Jodhi Meares faces possible jail time after allegedly crashing her Range Rover into parked cars and being charged with drink-driving, reports verbally expressed Monday.

Police verbally expressed a 43-year-old woman had been apprehended after a crash in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs on Saturday evening. She was widely identified by the media as Meares.

"She was charged with high-range drink-driving and driving whilst suspended," police verbalized in a verbalization.

Packer, one of Australia's richest men with a personal fortune estimated at Aus$6 billion (US$5.6 billion), ended a three-year espousement to the swimsuit model in 2002.

The Australian newspaper verbalized that bystanders availed Meares, who is now engaged to former INXS singer Jon Stevens, out of her car after the crash but she was unhurt.

The contingency transpired in the exclusive suburb of Bellevue Hill, when the car smashed into three unoccupied parked conveyances afore rolling on its side.

Police verbalized the driver's alcohol reading was more than three times over the licit limit.

High-range drink driving offences carry penalties of up to 18 months' jail and a fine of Aus$3,300 in Incipient South Wales state.

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