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# Legend of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1200/
- Published: 2025-05-02T18:30:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-02T18:30:48.000Z
- Description: Jones was born and raised in a state house in the Hutt Valley suburb of Naenae, and died in a grand home in 20ha grounds overlooking Wellington Harbour and Lower Hutt, with a glorious garden tended by full-time gardeners.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> [Sir Bob Jones](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/sir-bob-jones-dies-in-wellington-the-colourful-and-controversial-life-of-a-property-magnate/M45EPDTWTVCJLFEXBWGPAAA5PY/?ref=goodoil.news), one of New Zealand’s most colourful and successful business figures, has died at his home in Wellington. He was aged 85.  
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> Since forming a property company 64 years ago, Robert Edward Jones amassed a $2 billion portfolio of commercial buildings in Auckland, Wellington, and Glasgow, Scotland.  
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> Jones was born and raised in a state house in the Hutt Valley suburb of Naenae, and died in a grand home in 20ha grounds overlooking Wellington Harbour and Lower Hutt, with a glorious garden tended by full-time gardeners.  
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> In 1983, he formed the New Zealand Party before Robert Muldoon’s snap election, splitting the National vote and helping the David Lange-led Labour Party to win the 1984 election.  
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> He was a lifelong boxing fan and something of an expert, commentating and writing columns on the sport, and earning a university blue in boxing at Victoria University.  
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> One of Jones’ most famous incidents involved footage showing blood pouring down reporter Rod Vaughan’s face after an enraged Jones collected him with a left hook in Tūrangiin 1985.  
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> Vaughan and cameraman Peter Mayo had choppered into a tranquil spot where Jones was fly fishing in the Tongariro River near his holiday home.  
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> NZ Herald

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