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Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

Gina: a real life Succession story, episode 4

Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years ago, John Hancock had dinner with his mother, Gina Rinehart. He says it’s the last positive interaction he had with her. In an in-depth interview, he explains how his relationship with her fell apart and discusses a high-stakes legal case that could threaten the foundations of her empire

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:10.0

Can you experiment to tell me what we're doing?

0:14.0

We find ourselves back in Perth, and it's another hot day, surprisingly enough.

0:19.0

And we are here to interview John Hancock, Gina Reinhardt's first porn son.

0:25.2

He does have some constraints in what he can talk about, but we're hoping to have a chat to him

0:29.1

about his life as a Hancock.

0:37.4

You know, the exhausting bit is rehashing it in my mind before you arrive. I've got to bring up all

0:42.9

this painful stuff. These were major events in my life, you know, being told you're going to be

0:49.1

bankrupt. You know, that's a pretty major thing to deal with. I sit down with John at the apartment he's staying at near Cotterslow Beach.

0:57.9

He's back in Australia just temporarily to renew his passport.

1:01.8

These days, the only place he sees his mother, Gina Reinhart, is in the courtroom.

1:06.9

And we didn't speak then.

1:10.1

Your relationship now is what?

1:12.6

Non-existent.

1:13.6

We're not even emailing.

1:16.6

Do you remember the last positive interaction you had with Gina?

1:21.6

I had dinner introducing a business project that I had maybe, must have been 20 years ago, close to 20 years ago.

1:31.3

We had a nice dinner next week.

1:35.3

We had a chuckle. I don't know why it came up, but we both ate lamb's brains.

1:39.3

It was just one of those funny things that you remember.

1:46.7

And you know her, I assume, better than most people.

1:51.5

How did you describe her personality?

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