It was a romance that triggered the breakdown of Australia's Dynasty-style family and on Saturday sordid details of the real life love affair were retold in salacious detail.
In poignant scenes in TV drama House Of Hancock, iron ore magnate Lang Hancock is seen enjoying lingering massages and clandestine sex with his Filipino housekeeper, Rose Lacson.
And when daughter Gina Rinehart discovers the affair with the raven-haired beauty, the heiress (Mandy McElhinney), explodes: 'You're the subject of dirty old man jokes from one end of Australia to the next.'