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They had two daughters, Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Tony Blair is Grace Murdoch's godfather. In June 2013, Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from Wendi Murdoch, citing irreconcilable differences. 2016–2022 to Jerry Hall, an American model and actress. They divorced in 2022. 2024– to retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova. [22]
In 2016, Forbes ranked "Rupert Murdoch & Family" as the 35th most powerful person in the world. [ 253 ] According to Forbes' 2017 real-time list of world's billionaires, Murdoch was the 34th richest person in the US and the 96th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$13.1 billion as of February 2017.
Members of the family of Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media magnate and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of News Corporation. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (12 August 1885 – 4 October 1952) was an Australian journalist and media proprietor who was the founder of the Murdoch media empire. He amassed significant media holdings in Australia which after his death were expanded globally by his son Rupert. Murdoch was born in Melbourne, the son of a
Anna Maria dePeyster DSG (née Torv; formerly Murdoch and Mann; born 30 June 1944) is a British and Australian journalist and novelist. She became known as the second wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch , and was a director at News Corp .
Murdoch was born in Melbourne on 8 February 1909. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Marie Grace de Lancey (née Forth) and Rupert Greene. [1]Her grandfather, William Henry Greene, was an Irish railway engineer (later one of the three Commissioners of Victorian Railways) who emigrated to Australia and married Fanny, the fourth of the 10 daughters of George Govett. [2]
According to The New York Times, Murdoch Snr wants his companies to remain politically conservative, and sees his other children as too politically liberal. [28] [29] The irrevocable family trust was set up after Rupert and Anna Murdoch's divorce in 1999, to hold the family's 28.5% stake in News Corp.
At the time of the 2007 sale of the Dow Jones & Company to Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, the Bancroft family, which included over 30 members, owned 42 percent of the business but controlled 68 percent of the voting stock of Dow Jones [7] through their possession of 7.5 million Class B shares. In the sale to Murdoch, the Bancrofts made more than $1 ...