Elisabeth Murdoch Biography
Elisabeth Murdoch CBE is a British and American media executive of Australian origin located in the United Kingdom. She served as non-executive chairperson of Shine Group, the UK-based TV programme production firm she created in 2001, until its parent company, 21st Century Fox, combined its Shine division with ApolloGlobal Management’s Endemol and Core Media production companies, which specialize in reality TV, in 2015.
How old is Elisabeth Murdoch? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 22 August 2022. She was born in 1968 in Sydney, Australia.
Elisabeth Murdoch Family – Education
Rupert Murdoch is her father, and her mother is his ex-wife, writer, and author Anna Maria dePeyster (née Torv; born 1944). Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (senior) inspired the name, Elisabeth Murdoch. She attended the Brearley School in New York City and received her bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Is Elisabeth Murdoch Married? – Husband
Murdoch’s first marriage was to a fellow Vassar graduate, Elkin Kwesi Pianim, an associate in the Rothschild investment bank’s New York corporate finance department. He is the son of Kwame Pianim, a Ghanaian-born economist and businessman, and Cornelia Pianim, a Dutch-born woman. The wedding took place on September 10, 1993, at St. Timothy Catholic Church near the bride’s parents’ Beverly Hills home. They have two children, Cornelia Pianim, born in New York in 1994, and Anna Pianim, born in London in 1997. In 1998, they divorced.
Murdoch married public relations executive Matthew Freud, the son of former MP Sir Clement Freud and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, in his second marriage. The pair married on August 18, 2001, at Blenheim Palace. The couple had two kids. The family moved to Burford Priory in Oxfordshire in 2008, where they were part of the Chipping Norton set. They also have a house in London’s Notting Hill. In 2014, the couple divorced. Murdoch married artist Keith Tyson in 2017.
Elisabeth Murdoch Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.4 Billion.
Elisabeth Murdoch Shine
Shine Limited was created in March 2001, with her personal 80 percent ownership, Lord Alli’s 15 percent, and BSkyB’s 5 percent. BSkyB agreed to buy an agreed-upon amount of Shine programming for two years. Shine was purchased by News Corporation in a contentious deal that sparked concerns about nepotism.
Elisabeth Murdoch Career
Murdoch started her vocation as a chief of program acquisitions at her dad’s FX Organizations, a digital TV unit situated in Los Angeles. Murdoch and her then-husband, Elkin Kwesi Pianim, purchased NBC-affiliated television stations KSBW and KSBY in California on September 22, 1994, under the name EP Communications. They did so with a loan of $35 million that was guaranteed by Murdoch’s father.
Murdoch and Pianim moved to the United Kingdom, where Rupert Murdoch ran BSkyB. During the early years of BSkyB, Murdoch’s funds from News Corporation were lost. Elisabeth Murdoch served as his second-in-command and de facto apprentice while Sam Chisholm, a New Zealand television executive, was brought in to manage the day-to-day operations and build the subscriber base to aid in the company’s financial turnaround. BSkyB was the most profitable company in the United Kingdom when Chisholm left the company. As overseeing chief, Elisabeth supervised BSkyB’s £12 million sponsorship of the grieved Thousand years Arch, to the help of its Bureau supervisor, Peter Mandelson. However, she also came under fire for brokering her father’s unsuccessful £623.4 million bid for Manchester United, the champion team in England.
She started her own business in London as a television and film producer after a public argument with Chisholm. She advocated for Sky to establish a film and production unit similar to Film4 Productions and BBC Films. However, this unit was shut down due to failure. She established Sparkle Restricted in Walk 2001, with 80 percent proprietorship held without anyone else, 15% by Master Alli, and five percent by BSkyB. BSkyB marked an arrangement ensuring to purchase a concurred measure of Sparkle programming for a very long time.
In 2011, Sparkle was procured by News Company in a disputable arrangement that brought up issues about nepotism. Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 ranked Murdoch as the fifth most powerful woman in the United Kingdom in February 2013. In 2018, Murdoch delivered a dating unscripted TV drama called Telephone Trade, that was initially circulated on Snapchat.
Murdoch has been on numerous boards of organizations, including Afiniti. She is currently Executive Chairman of Sister, a global TV and film production and development company with offices in Los Angeles and a London headquarters. She set up her creation organization Sister in 2019. Chris Goldberg and his company Winterlight Pictures entered into a contract with Her Sister Productions. She recently signed a contract with Jeremy Strong, an actor.
In the 2022 Birthday Honours, Murdoch was given the rank of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to charity and diversity in the arts.