King has one sibling, her older brother, Peter. King wrote her autobiography, entitled
Nene. In February 2010, King claimed she was facing ruin after a disastrous falling out with associates was set to cost her more than $1 million. The matter went before Melbourne's County Court in February 2016. On 12 February 2016, an associate was found not guilty of defrauding King. King has been married three times. In 1993, she married her third husband, Patrick Bowring, a rock journalist and diver. Bowring disappeared while wreck diving in May 1996, a month after King's father Lionel also died. Her mother Emily died in April 2008. King has admitted to using alcohol to "bury" her problems. She also admits to having smoked marijuana. In June 2013, Australian actor
Mandy McElhinney played King in the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation television
mini-series Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, a sequel to
Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo. == References ==