<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Eileen Bond, the first wife of late business tycoon Alan Bond, has died overnight aged 87.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her daughter confirmed that Bond passed away last night with her family by her side.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 87-year-old suffered a severe stroke on Sunday and had developed heart complications.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/gst-increase-lead-accountancy-body-calls-for-change/e1d69873-3a9c-4bb0-933a-e77a66fd5e53" target="_blank"><strong><span>Major accounting body CPA Australia says increase to GST could reduce income tax</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Eileen and Alan were married in 1955 when they were both just 17 years old.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They had four children together before the pair divorced in 1992.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Alan Bond was a property developer who later expanded into brewing and company acquisitions. In 1987 he bought Channel Nine television network, now the publisher of this website, for $1 billion from Kerry Packer.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/eileen-bond-dies-after-stroke-aged-87/b7f0a61d-9081-42d0-bf1b-c8d217af4efa" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He infamously declared bankruptcy in 1992 and five years later in 1997 was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to business fraud.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He died in June 2015. </span></div></div>