Inside the Murdoch family fortune
Daniel Coughlin
12 December 2024
How Rupert Murdoch built an empire, and the battle to control it
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Rupert Murdoch's powerful father
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Rupert Murdoch's early journalism jobs
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Red Rupert
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Sir Keith Murdoch dies
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Rupert Murdoch's Daily Express stint
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Rupert Murdoch heads the family business
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Rupert Murdoch acquires The WA Sunday Times
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Rupert Murdoch branches out into TV
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Rupert Murdoch marries his first wife and moves to Sydney
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Rupert Murdoch divorces his first wife, remarries and heads to London
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Rupert Murdoch's American media takeover begins
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Rupert Murdoch establishes News Corporation
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Rupert Murdoch's 1980s print acquisitions
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Rupert Murdoch buys 20th Century Fox and debuts on the Forbes 400
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Rupert Murdoch becomes a billionaire
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Rupert Murdoch launches BSkyB, Foxtel, and Fox News
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Rupert Murdoch divorces his second wife, sets up the irrevocable trust and marries Wendi Deng
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Rupert Murdoch's noughties acquisitions
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Rupert Murdoch and the phone-hacking scandal
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Rupert Murdoch is criticised by the UK parliament
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News corporation is split into two
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Rupert Murdoch marries for a fourth and fifth time
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Rupert Murdoch sells 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets to Disney
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Rupert Murdoch retires and appoints Lachlan as his successor
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Lachlan Murdoch
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James Murdoch
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Elisabeth Murdoch
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Prudence MacLeod
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The great Murdoch succession battle
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An uncertain future
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