Tributes are flowing for Melbourne rich-lister and property developer Jonathan Hallinan after he tragically lost his battle to cancer aged 47.
The founder and managing director of construction group BPM Corp, passed away on Thursday after a two-year cancer battle that followed a bone-marrow transplant in 2021.
He died peacefully at the Royal Melbourne Hospital after spending two days sharing “beautiful goodbyes” with his close family.
The entrepreneur, who had an estimated net worth of $866 million according to The Australian’s 2019 Richest 250 list, is survived by his wife of four months Mikka Hallinan and his three children.
In a post to Instagram, Ms Hallinan said her husband’s health took a turn for the worse three days before his death after he developed an infection, the Herald Sun reports.
“His doctor broke it to him that with a bacterial bug, chest infection, fevers of 39 (degrees plus) and overall unwellness from the level of his disease in his body, he wouldn’t be making the drug trial he was aiming for,” she shared.
Ms Hallinan said the businessman left the world in “true Jonnie style”, saying he passed amid a thunderstorm that arrived “out of nowhere” and left “a clear sky behind”.
“If you saw it, know it was the sky announcing to the heavens that Jonathan Hallinan was coming,” she said.
“Jonnie passed in the storm (on Thursday) morning. In his own words, Jonnie said he was going home.
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