EXCLUSIVE
Paul Hogan’s son will return to Australia as the Crocodile Dundee star’s drug-addicted grandson prepares to be sentenced.
Todd Hogan, who lives in New Zealand, will return next week for the court hearing of his jailed son Jake Hogan, a lawyer told magistrate Mark Whelan on Wednesday.
Jake Paul Hogan, 34, who is named after his famous grandfather, affectionately known as ‘Hoges’, has been in prison after being refused bail in March.
The former dealer will be sentenced next week for breaking into apartment blocks “to feed his high-level drug addiction” and for breaching an apprehended violence order against a woman he allegedly terrorized.
Downing Center Local Court heard a psychiatric report is being prepared on the trained carpenter whose life had spiraled out of control earlier this year.
Jake Hogan, the grandson of Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, is in prison awaiting sentencing for robberies committed after he got out of control with drugs.
Jake Paul Hogan, above with his father Todd Hogan. Todd will be making a mercy trip from New Zealand next week to attend Jake’s sentencing hearing.
Previously, Jake had a nice house, a car, a steady job, and a girlfriend he hoped to marry.
But he became a homeless drug addict, sleeping in abandoned buildings and stealing clothes and bicycles to sell.
He lost his friends and became estranged from his family, and every day he rode his bike for hours on ice, making tearful phone calls to the few people who hadn’t abandoned him.
Jake, whose father is one of five children born to Paul and his first wife Noelene Hogan, is the brother of Network Seven TV reporter Mylee Hogan.
A former acquaintance revealed that Jake was traumatized by a family tragedy that occurred long before he was jailed for threatening a woman and stealing to fund his drug addiction.
Jake’s mother, Marie, had suffered a “very sad” deterioration in the weeks before her death from multiple sclerosis when Jake was 17 in 2006.
After her death, Paul Hogan rushed out of California, where he lived with his second wife Linda Kozlowski and their young son, Chance, to attend his daughter-in-law’s funeral.
Todd eventually remarried registered nurse Jane, and the couple now live in New Zealand.
Jake remained in Sydney and seemed to lead a normal and largely guilt-free life until he began a relationship with a young mother called Rachel Young.
Jake had some substance abuse problems, but when his relationship broke down and his hopes of having his own family disappeared, he “became seriously addicted to drugs which completely took over his life”, the court heard.
Currently in prison, believed to be Silverwater Jail, Jake is under protection due to his grandfather’s fame.
Jake is the grandson of Hollywood celebrity Paul Hogan, whose breakout role as Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee (above) earned him a Golden Globe award and made him millions.
Jake as a child with his mother Marie and father Todd around 1990. Tragedy struck the family when Marie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and died from the disease in 2006.
The court heard that before Todd Hogan flew to visit his son and attend the hearing in person, Jake’s sentencing assessment report had “a lot of positive information” but had not yet been verified.
Jake was caught earlier this year on what police described as “high quality CCTV” breaking into different luxury blocks after “brazenly loitering” outside.
According to a police statement of facts, Jake could clearly be seen breaking into an apartment block in the inner Sydney suburb of Pyrmont, wearing a black T-shirt with “Los Angeles” in gold letters, shorts and New Balance white sneakers.
On another occasion, he wore a black ‘L’HISTOIRE’ T-shirt and black shorts to storm a block in nearby Waterloo.
Police later found him carrying Trojan brand wire cutters, a black torch, Allen wrenches and an adjustable wrench.
Jake also breached a domestic violence order detained five days after a woman took her out and texted her the word “DOG” while she was at Prince of Wales Hospital.
The woman then received 42 more calls from different pay phones over four hours while she was in her hospital bed with him, either “crying on the phone… or getting very angry and yelling.”
The police facts detail Jake’s high number of arrests and offences, and previous charges including custody of a knife in a public place, malicious damage, drug possession, shoplifting and possession of stolen goods.
Jake Hogan has been in prison on denied bail since March in prison (believed to be Silverwater Jail) and under protection due to his famous grandfather.
Jake Hogan is “a good person with a very kind, good personality and a supportive family,” but ice addiction and homelessness turned him into a desperate man.
Instead of working in his chosen trade, courts have heard how Jake carried break-in tools and lingered outside posh apartment blocks looking for opportunities to steal.
An acquaintance of Jake’s said that he “wasn’t a bad person, but he had completely lost himself.” He has never gotten over the death of his mother. He then he has real abandonment issues.
“He’s actually a good person with a very kind personality and a supportive family,” the person said.
“He was still very upset about his mother’s death. ‘He never got over it because he never processed it properly.’
Paul Hogan, seen with second wife Linda Kozlowski in 2013, made his own return to Australia in 2006 when Jake’s mother Marie died of multiple sclerosis.
When his relationship with his girlfriend ended, it “destroyed his dreams of having a family and then brought up all kinds of past traumas.”
“He was just devastated. He lost all his friends and was isolated from his family. He shoplifted clothes and bikes, he lazed around because he was homeless.
“I used to break into the pool rooms and sleep in one of those buildings in Pyrmont.”
Jake was eventually arrested and denied bail after being caught shoplifting at Coles and Myer in Sydney’s CBD.
He was arrested on February 5 after a member of staff saw him stealing two Dare Iced Coffees at Coles World Square.
