Foster's entrepreneurial spirit showed itself at an early age when he became a teenage boxing promoter. Boxing also led to his first tangle with the law at the age of 20 when he was fined for trying to claim insurance for a cancelled fight.
Not long after, he was declared bankrupt after trying to sell tickets for a Muhammed Ali fight in Australia that never took place.
His attention later shifted from heavyweight boxers to those aspiring to be featherweights with a string of schemes to sell dubious weight loss teas and other treatments.
He fell foul of authorities in Australia, Britain and the US for making misleading claims for the products and spent several spells in prison.
He has lived in Fiji on and off for several years and in the 2001 elections he ran the campaign for a breakaway political party, reportedly spending 1 million Fiji dollars (US$580,000) of his own money.
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