All of them had imagined that his ever-growing company might one day belong to them. As children, they sat around the family’s breakfast table on Fifth Avenue, listening to their father’s tutorials on the morning papers: how the articles were selected and laid out, how many ad pages there were. Elisabeth (50), Lachlan (47) and James (46) all grew up in the business. But the three children from Murdoch’s second marriage, to Anna Mann (whom he divorced in 1999), had spent at least parts of their lives jockeying to succeed their father. The 61-year-old Prudence, the only child of Murdoch’s first marriage, to the Australian model Patricia Booker (whom he divorced in 1965), lived in Sydney and London and kept some distance from the family business. The four grown children had differing claims to the throne. The Murdoch family, 1973: Lachlan, Rupert, Elisabeth, Anna, James. But control of this sprawling empire was suddenly up in the air.
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Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, consummating a preliminary agreement to sell his TV and film studio, 21st Century Fox, to Disney for $52.4 billion. And he was in the midst of the biggest deal of his life: Only a few weeks before his fall on Lachlan’s yacht, he shook hands on a London rooftop with Robert A.
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In Australia, where Murdoch’s power is most undiluted, his outlets had led an effort to repeal the country’s carbon tax - a first for any nation - and pushed out a series of prime ministers whose agenda didn’t comport with his own. In Britain, his London-based tabloid, The Sun, had recently led the historic Brexit crusade to drive the country out of the European Union - and, in the chaos that ensued, helped deliver Theresa May to 10 Downing Street. His 24-hour news-and-opinion network, the Fox News Channel, had by then fused with President Trump and his base of hard-core supporters, giving Murdoch an unparalleled degree of influence over the world’s most powerful democracy. His newspapers and television networks had been instrumental in amplifying the nativist revolt that was reshaping governments not just in the United States but also across the planet.
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As the head of a sprawling global media empire, he commanded multiple television networks, a global news service, a major publishing house and a Hollywood movie studio.
Hall called his adult children in a panic, urging them to come to California prepared to make peace with their father.įew private citizens have ever been more central to the state of world affairs than the man lying in that hospital bed, awaiting his children’s arrival. The doctors quickly spotted broken vertebrae, which required immediate surgery, as well as a spinal hematoma, increasing the risk of paralysis or even death. Murdoch was stretchered off the Sarissa and flown to a hospital in Los Angeles. The family prevented word from getting out on both occasions, but the incidents were concerning.
Murdoch had fallen a couple of other times in recent years, once on the stairs while exiting a stage, another time on a carpet in a San Francisco hotel. Stream “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence” here. This article is now a documentary series streaming on CNN+.
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