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Kiwi actor and co-owner of Australian league team the Rabbitohs Russell Crowe has been accused of hiring private investigators to spy on the club's former chairman.
Long-time South Sydney chairman George Piggins has slammed co-owners Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes a Court for the way he was treated leading up
to their eventual takeover of the club in 2006.
In a letter sent to the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, Piggins said dirty tactics had been going on at the time and involved US spies, secret surveillance of his family, and people going through his rubbish.
"Crowe and Holmes a Court used the services of Palladino & Sutherland, a US private investigation firm, to travel to Australia to spy on people opposed to the takeover of the club in a dirt-digging exercise," Piggins wrote.
"Secret photographs were taken of me, my family as well as my supporters, by local covert surveillance operators and we were secretly followed.
