Rupert Murdoch

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Keith Rupert Murdoch, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born media mogul who founded News Corp. Murdoch's father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a reporter and editor who moved to the Herald and Weekly Times publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales.

Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered media public company and formed his own private company, News Limited, following his father's death in 1952. Murdoch purchased a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, closely followed by The Sun.

Murdoch moved to New York City in 1974 to expand into the US market; however, he retained Australian and British interests.

Murdoch acquired The Times in 1981, his first British broadsheet, and in 1985, he became a naturalized US citizen, giving up his Australian citizenship to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.

News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989), and The Wall Street Journal (2007).

Murdoch founded BSkyB in 1990 and later expanded into Asian television and South American television.

Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 firms in more than 50 countries by 2000, with a net worth of over $5 billion. Murdoch's company, including News of the World, which is owned by News Corporation, was accused of regularly hacking celebrities, royalty, and everyday citizens' phones.

Murdoch resigned as a director of News International on July 21, 2012, and the British government and FBI probe into bribery and corruption in the United States.

Murdoch resigned as CEO of 21st Century Fox on July 1, 2015.

Murdoch and his family will continue to own both 21st Century Fox and News Corp through the Murdoch Family Trust until the Murdoch Family Trust's purchase of Fox News in July 2016.

Early life

Murdoch was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11th, 1931, the son of Sir Keith Murdoch (1885-1972) and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (1909–2012). He is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent. Murdoch's parents were both born in Melbourne, and his grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, was also born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch, a war reporter and later a regional newspaper magnate, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, as well as a radio station in a faraway mining town, was chairman of the influential Herald and Weekly Times publishing company. Keith Rupert chose his second name, which was the first name of his maternal grandfather, rather than his grandmother's. Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor, and Helen Handbury were among Rupert Murdoch's three sisters (1929-2004). He attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was co-editor and editor of the school's official journal. If Revived, he was a student scholar at the University of Geelong Grammar School. He advanced his school's cricket team to the National Junior Finals. He worked part-time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father to take over the family business. Murdoch studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford, England, where he kept a bust of Lenin in his rooms and became known as "Red Rupert." He was a member of Oxford University Labour Party and formerly served as Secretary of the Labour Club as well as the publishing house of Cherwell. Elisabeth, his father's death from cancer in 1952, completed the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne. She had 74 relatives at the age of 102 (in 2011). Murdoch obtained an MA before starting as a sub-editor with the Daily Express for two years.

Personal life

Murdoch bought "Rosehearty," an 11-bedroom home on a 5-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island, New York, in 2003. In May 2013, he purchased the Moraga Estate, an estate, vineyard, and winery in Bel Air, California. Murdoch and his new wife Jerry Hall bought Holmwood, an 18th-century house and estate in Binfield Heath, England, about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) north-east of Reading.

Murdoch and Hall had been isolating in their Binfield Heath home for a good portion of the year, as early as the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in late 2020. On December 16, he received his first COVID-19 vaccine in Henley-on-Thames, just south of Henley-on-Thames.

Murdoch married Patricia Booker, a Melbourne shop assistant and flight attendant, in 1956; the couple had their first child, Prudence, in 1958. In 1967, the two couples wed in.

Murdoch married Anna Torv, a Scottish-born cadet journalist working for his Sydney newspaper The Daily Mirror in 1967. Murdoch was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KSG), a papal honor bestowed to him by Pope John Paul II in January 1998, three months before he's announcement of his separation from Anna. Although Murdoch and Torv would often attend Mass, he never converted to Catholicism. Torv and Murdoch had three children: Elisabeth Murdoch (born in Sydney, Australia on August 22, 1968), Lachlan Murdoch (born in London, UK, on September 8, 1971), and James Murdoch (born in London on December 13, 1972). Two novels by Murdoch's then-wife, Family Business (1988) and Coming to Terms (1991), were published. In June 1999, the couple divorced. Anna Murdoch has been paid US$1.2 billion in debt.

Murdoch, the second wife of Divorcing his second wife, Murdoch, married Wendi Deng, a Chinese-born Chinese-born woman on June 25, 1999, 17 days after he divorcing his second wife, then aged 68. She was 30, a recent Yale School of Management graduate and a newly appointed vice president of his STAR TV. Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003) Murdoch had two children together: Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Murdoch has six children in total, as well as grandparent to thirteen grandchildren. According to reports, a connection with Chinese intelligence (which later proved to be unfounded) became tense to their marriage. Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in New York City, USA, on June 13, 2013. The marriage had been irretrievably broken for more than six months, according to the spokesman. Murdoch also ended his long-term relationship with Tony Blair after being accused of having an affair with Deng while they were still married.

Murdoch revealed his relationship with former model Jerry Hall in a newspaper notice published on Monday. Murdoch's fourth marriage anniversary, a week before his 85th birthday, and 59-year-old Hall were married in London at St Bride's, Fleet Street, on March 4th; this is Murdoch's fourth marriage. Murdoch and Hall were due to divorce in June 2022, according to two unidentified sources. On July 1, 2022, Hall filed a divorce citing irreconcilable inconsistencies; the divorce was finalised in August 2022.

Murdoch has six children. Prudence MacLeod, his eldest child, was elected to the board of Times Newspapers Ltd, a division of News International, which publishes The Times and The Sunday Times. Lachlan, Murdoch's elder son and former Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the News Corporation and Publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch's successor apparent before resigning from his executive posts at the multinational media corporation at the end of July 2005. Since Lachlan's resignation, James Murdoch, the only Murdoch son still active in the company's operations, except Lachlan, who has agreed to remain on the News Corporation's board.

Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth and her partner purchased two NBC-affiliate television stations in California, KSBW and KSBY after graduating from Vassar College and marrying classmate Elkin Kwesi Pianim (the son of Ghanaian financial and political mogul Kwame Pianim) in 1993. Elisabeth emerged as an unexpected rival to her brothers for the eventual leadership of the publishing industry in 1995 by re-organizing and re-selling them at a $12 million profit. However, after divorcing Pianim in 1998 and quarrelling openly with her mentor Sam Chisholm at BSkyB, she began to work as a London television and film producer. She has since enjoyed freedom in tandem with her second husband, Matthew Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, who died in 1997 and married in 2001.

It's unclear how long Murdoch will continue as News Corporation's CEO. For a time, American cable television pioneer John Malone was the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch, potentially undermining the family's power. In 2007, the firm announced that it would sell such assets and loan cash to Malone's company in exchange for its stock. Murdoch's older children's voting stock was issued in 2007.

Wendi Deng Grace (b. ), Murdoch has two children with Wendi Deng: Grace (b. Chloe and New York, 2001) and Chloe (b. (July 2003, New York). Tony Blair is Grace's godfather, according to her. Murdoch and his oldest children are said to be in a stalemate over the terms of a trust that holds the family's 28.5% interest in News Corporation, which is expected to be worth $6.1 billion in 2005. His children by Wendi Deng have a stake in the proceeds of the stock under the trust, but not have voting privileges or knowledge of the stock. Murdoch's children and his parents of his first two marriages are split 50-50 on the one hand and his children. Murdoch's voting privileges are not transferable, but they will expire on his death, and the stock will then be managed solely by his children from the previous marriages, although their half-siblings will continue to derive their share of the proceeds. It is Murdoch's stated desire to have his children by Deng exercise a degree of influence over the stock proportional to their financial interest (which means that if Murdoch dies while at least one of the children is a minor) will be exercised by Deng). It does not appear that he has any legitimate reasons to protest the current arrangement, and that both ex-wife Anna and her three children are clearly opposed to any such change.

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