Pixie Skase, now 81, returned to Australia in 2008 and lives in Melbourne. The missing money was never found. Skase and the House of Qintex are long gone, but his legacy on the Gold Coast lives on.

Where is Pixie Skase today?

His wife Pixie returned to Australia nearly a decade ago, and now lives in Melbourne.

When did Christopher Skase leave Australia?

But unlike Bond, who stayed to face the consequences of his actions, when the inevitable end came for Skase in 1991 he fled to Spain, a country with no extradition treaty with Australia, and thumbed his nose at the authorities and their claims of 60 criminal charges and debts of A$1.5bn.