Gina Rinehart, Anthony Pratt and Lachlan Murdoch (Images: AAP)
Gina Rinehart, Anthony Pratt and Lachlan Murdoch (Images: AAP)

If the golden era of TV really is drawing to a close, it may well be replaced by the golden era of messy courtroom dramas featuring the children of Australian billionaires (not quite as catchy an era designation, I grant you).

Please enjoy our round-up of the various legal catastrophes currently befalling the catastrophically wealthy.

The Pratts

Box billionaire Anthony Pratt has already given us so much. Who could forget his fun (and then discreetly culled) following list on Instagram? His relentless and presumably very pricey cardboard-themed karaoke, in which he treats some of the great songs of the 20th century with the same level of care as Oliver Reed showed his liver? And of course, his on-again-off-again