Lachlan Murdoch Biography
Lachlan Murdoch is a British-Australian entrepreneur and media heir. He is the co-chairman of News Corp, the executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation, and the founder of the Australian investment firm Illyria Pty Ltd.
How old is Lachlan Murdoch? – Age
He is 51 years old as of 8 September 2022. He was born in 1971 in London, United Kingdom. His real name is Lachlan Keith Murdoch.
Lachlan Murdoch Family
Lachlan was born at Wimbledon Hospital. He is the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, an Australian-born American media billionaire, and his ex-wife, Scottish journalist and author Anna Maria dePeyster (née Torv; formerly Murdoch). He grew up in New York City, where his father was the owner of the New York Post.
Lachlan Murdoch Education
He attended the Aspen Country Day School in Aspen, Colorado, Trinity School in New York City, and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for his primary and secondary education. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University in 1994. He studied philosophy at Princeton with Béatrice Longuenesse and Alan Hajek.
Is Lachlan Murdoch married? – Wife – Children
Murdoch married Australian model/actress Sarah O’Hare Murdoch, who was born in the United Kingdom, in 1999. The couple has two sons, Kalan Alexander, born on November 9, 2004, and Aidan Patrick, born on May 6, 2006, and one daughter, Aerin Elisabeth, born on April 12, 2010, named after his sister and grandmother.
Lachlan Murdoch Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion.
Lachlan Murdoch House
The Murdochs owned “Berthong”, a property in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay, until it was sold to Russell Crowe in 2003. Murdoch paid $23 million for “Le Manoir,” a 4,097-square-metre (44,100-square-foot) mansion in Bellevue Hill, in November 2009, and an adjoining 1,049-square-metre (11,290-square-foot) property two years later. Murdoch and his wife purchased US$29 million in 2017 bought a big equestrian property in Aspen, Colorado, which includes a 1,250-square-metre (13,500-square-foot) six-bedroom villa. They paid an estimated $150 million for the Chartwell Estate in Los Angeles in 2019.
Lachlan Murdoch Yacht
Murdoch is one step closer to adding a new $150 million superyacht to his collection. The News Corp heir will receive the superyacht after a five-year wait for it to be conceived and eventually built by Dutch company Royal Huisman.
The superyacht, called Project 404, cost at least $150 million and was cloaked in secrecy. Murdoch’s lavish spending comes despite the media mogul facing two big lawsuits. The first is a $2.4 billion defamation suit filed against Fox News Network and its parent firm Fox Corp for their coverage of baseless US vote-rigging allegations. The second is a lawsuit against Crikey, in which Lachlan says a column falsely implied he ‘illegally plotted with Donald Trump to provoke’ the deadly January 2021 Capitol riot.
As he awaits the delivery of his fourth superyacht, he does not appear overburdened with legal matters. The 59.7m sailing boat has been under development for almost a decade, with most of the details of its construction kept under wraps. The Superyacht Times revealed photos of the vessel, which provided more information on the superyacht’s ultimate appearance.
The vessel was designed by Malcolm McKeon Yacht Design in the United Kingdom and is now awaiting launch from the Vollenhove shipyard in the Netherlands. The yacht has a’reversed bow’ and a’sleek profile with powerful hull lines,’ as well as an ultra-luxurious interior design by Studio Liaigre. The firm also customizes homes and boats for the world’s most affluent households. It will contain an outside dining space, a wet bar, and numerous social areas for 12 guests and 10 workers.
Lachlan Murdoch Political View
Lachlan made his first public comments on the Dominion issue after Fox’s top executives and stars were embroiled in a barrage of new allegations. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, he attempted to dismiss the issue as “noise,” and defended Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 race, saying it did its job “without fear or favor.”
That term clashes with the catastrophic picture of the media empire’s inner workings that has emerged through Dominion court filings. Murdoch’s fingerprints are abundantly sprinkled throughout the documents, as Folkenflik suggested. Dominion alleges Murdoch had a key part in permitting misinformation about its equipment switching votes from Trump to Joe Biden in order to steal the election to be broadcast. His involvement was not merely theoretical; it was “direct.”
Lachlan and his father had frequent communication with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott in the days following the November 2020 election. When Dominion lawyers deposed Lachlan, he testified that he gave “specific direction on both the tone and narrative of Fox’s news coverage.”
Lachlan Murdoch Fox News
Murdoch, 33, abruptly left as a News Corporation executive in July 2005. The unannounced departure appears to have dashed News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch’s hopes that his son would one day take over as CEO of the global media empire, which included the Twentieth Century Fox film studio, now a subsidiary of Disney Studios, as well as the Fox television network, several satellite broadcasters, and newspapers in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. To succeed Murdoch junior, Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News Channel, was designated chairman of News Corp’s group of television stations. The media believed that Rupert Murdoch’s brother, James Murdoch, then-CEO of UK satellite TV provider BSkyB, might succeed him.
Murdoch was the deputy chief operations officer of News Corporation, now 21st Century Fox, during his time as an executive at the company. He was in charge of HarperCollins and the company’s Australian operations, including REA. He was also the publisher of the New York Post and served on the boards of Foxtel and Fox Television stations. In 1996, he was named to the board of directors of News Corporation.