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New York (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch announced Thursday he will step down as chairman of his global media empire, a conservative behemoth that shaped politics across continents, and hand control over to his son Lachlan. The Australian-born mogul, who built a global entertainment and news juggernaut instrumental in events from the Margaret Thatcher era to the rise of Donald Trump, will step back at the age of 92, starting mid-November, Fox Corp. and News Corp announced. With a letter to colleagues saying he'd decided to "transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus," Murdoch drew a line under a remar...
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New York (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch transformed media and politics on three continents, building a chain of newspapers he inherited from his father at just 21 into a lucrative and profoundly influential right-leaning empire. A shrewd and often merciless businessman, the 92-year-old Murdoch announced he is stepping back from both News Corp and Fox, conglomerates which made him a billionaire and a fearsome political king-maker in his native Australia, his adopted United States, and Britain. The two companies announced that Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan, currently co-chair of both and chief executive ...
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Sydney (AFP) - Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday abruptly dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family and firm of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots. Lawyers for the Crikey website said that Murdoch -- the eldest son of billionaire conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch -- had halted eight months of legal proceedings, days after his company settled a major US libel suit. Lachlan Murdoch had sued Crikey for coverage that labelled Murdoch's family and their "poisonous" Fox News commentators as "unindicted co-conspirators" ...
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Washington (AFP) - Conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch will tie the knot for the fifth time, at the age of 92 years, he said Monday in an interview with his own newspaper, the New York Post. Murdoch is engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old former police chaplain in San Francisco and widow of American country singer and media executive Chester Smith. "I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love -- but I knew this would be my last. It better be," he told the tabloid. "I'm happy." Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, model Jerry Hall, last year after six years of marriage. The Australian...
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Sydney (AFP) - A high-stakes defamation battle between News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch and small Australian news outlet Crikey will go to trial beginning March 27 in Sydney. Rupert Murdoch's eldest son -- who is also chief executive of Fox News parent Fox Corporation -- is suing Crikey over an opinion piece that linked his family's media empire to the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. The media scion's lawyers claimed their client was defamed over a dozen times in the article, which accused "the Murdochs and their slew of poisonous F...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall have finalized their divorce after six years of marriage, Hall's lawyer said Thursday. It is the fourth divorce for the 91-year-old Murdoch, who married Hall, 66, in London in March 2016. "Jerry and Rupert Murdoch have finalized their divorce," attorney Judy Poller told AFP. "They remain good friends and wish each other the best for the future." The Australian Murdoch, who owns many of the world's most famous newspapers, is worth more than $17 billion, according to Forbes. The couple signed a prenuptial agreement, and The New...
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New York (AFP) - The storming of the US Capitol has triggered Rupert Murdoch's media empire to call time on Donald Trump, with The Wall Street Journal saying the president should resign and even acolytes on Fox News telling viewers he has reached the end of his shelf life. Murdoch's right-wing outlets helped propel the property tycoon-turned reality TV star to the White House in 2016, remaining steadfastly loyal for four years before cracks in the alliance began to appear on re-election day. Wednesday's rampage around the halls of Congress by a pro-Trump mob, leading to five deaths and worldwi...
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