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Rupert Murdoch, born in Melbourne, is a major international media proprietor – he chairs two United States-based companies that control most of his assets: News Corp and Fox Corporation. Murdoch's career as a media proprietor began in 1952, when he inherited his father's stake in News Limited. [14]
The issue of succession began in December 2023, when Rupert Murdoch applied to change the terms of his "irrevocable" family trust (established in 1999, as the Murdoch Family Trust, or MFT) to ensure that Lachlan would have full control over News Corp, a mass media and publishing company that manages hundreds of assets, rather than his three ...
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. It relates only to the children born before then, giving them equal say in the fate of the business after Rupert's death. [ 178 ]
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.
Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie (née Brown) and the Rev. Patrick John Murdoch, who had married in 1882 and migrated from Cruden, Scotland, to Victoria, Australia, with his family in 1884.
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. It relates only to the children born before then, giving them equal say in the fate of the businesses: [72] each would have one vote in the trust, while their father would have four.
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch [1] was born on 13 December 1972 at Wimbledon Hospital in Wimbledon, London, England. [2] [3] He is the fourth child of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch's six children, and the third with Scottish-born journalist and author Anna Murdoch Mann (née Torv), [4] the others being Elisabeth and Lachlan.
Murdoch (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / MUR-dok, UK also /-d ə x /-dəkh) [1] is an Irish/Scottish given name, as well as a surname. The name is derived from old Irish Gaelic words mur , meaning "sea" and murchadh , meaning "sea warrior". [ 2 ]