Vanity Fair article has caused stir with its bleak depiction of life inside super-rich media dynasty
Gabriel Sherman, a journalist who has spent decades writing about the Murdoch business, spoke to several well-placed sources who painted a bleak picture of the super-wealthy family. “I was struck by how sad all the Murdochs seem,” he wrote., the article contained several striking revelations.In early 2018, Hall found Murdoch in “excruciating pain on the cabin floor” of his 140ft yacht, the article claims.
He may joke about his immortality and reference his mother’s longevity – she died at 103 – but a source said his family liked to remind the nonagenarian: “Forty may be the new 30, but 80 is 80.”Just like in the HBO show, Murdoch has long wanted one of his three children from his second marriage – Elisabeth, 54, Lachlan, 51, and James, 50 – to take over the family business.
Rupert Murdoch with his then wife, Anna, and children Lachlan, James and Elisabeth at their home in New York in 1989.say he is biding his time until he and his sisters can wrest control from Lachlan. Some think James would purge Fox News and transform it into a centre-right alternative to CNN; others think he would sell up to private equity, prompting a “visceral fear” inside the network about its future.
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