The Mac
09-06-2010, 10:15 AM
Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday.
The 70-year-old Australian-born actor arrived in Sydney on Aug. 20 to attend his mother's funeral and was served with an Australian Taxation Office order barring him from leaving Australia until he settles a multimillion-dollar tax bill, lawyer Andrew Robinson said late last month.
On Friday, Robinson said after a meeting between Hogan's lawyers and tax officials, an agreement was reached that will allow Hogan to return to the U.S.
Australian tax and crime investigators have fought Hogan in a five-year legal battle in Australian and U.S. courts to investigate evidence he used offshore bank accounts to conceal earnings after his low-budget "Crocodile Dundee" movie became an international hit in 1986.
Hogan lives in Los Angeles with his wife, "Crocodile Dundee" co-star Linda Kozlowski, and their 12-year-old son Chance
The 70-year-old Australian-born actor arrived in Sydney on Aug. 20 to attend his mother's funeral and was served with an Australian Taxation Office order barring him from leaving Australia until he settles a multimillion-dollar tax bill, lawyer Andrew Robinson said late last month.
On Friday, Robinson said after a meeting between Hogan's lawyers and tax officials, an agreement was reached that will allow Hogan to return to the U.S.
Australian tax and crime investigators have fought Hogan in a five-year legal battle in Australian and U.S. courts to investigate evidence he used offshore bank accounts to conceal earnings after his low-budget "Crocodile Dundee" movie became an international hit in 1986.
Hogan lives in Los Angeles with his wife, "Crocodile Dundee" co-star Linda Kozlowski, and their 12-year-old son Chance