Future of the Murdoch media empire being fought out in secret
Rupert Murdoch is currently battling three of his four children in a closed-door court battle in Reno, Nevada, that will dictate the future direction of his media empire.
The mogul is attempting to change what was believed to be the Murdoch family’s irrevocable trust in order to keep eldest son Lachlan in charge after his death and therefore protect the conservative bend to his television networks and newspapers.
The trust will currently give Murdoch’s four children equal control of the empire, but Murdoch moved to change the terms of the trust last year, a move his three youngest children — James, Elisabeth and Prudence — are attempting to block.
Rupert’s oldest child by his second marriage (to Anna Torv) is Elizabeth. Luchlan is the second child of that marriage. His oldest child is Prudence, a daughter to his first marriage to Patricia Booker. He has two other daughters—Grace and Chloe—to his third wife, Wendi Deng.
Literally the plot