Rupert Murdoch Biography
Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American businessman and media mogul. He owns hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world through his company News Corp, including The Sun and The Times in the United Kingdom, The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian in Australia, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post in the United States, book publisher HarperCollins, and television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News in Australia.
How old is Rupert Murdoch? – Age
He is 92 years old as of 11 March 2023. He was born in 1931 in Melbourne, Australia. His real name is Keith Rupert Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch Family – Education
Keith is the second of four children born to Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Greene. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent, and both of his parents were born in Melbourne. Helen, Anne, and Janet were his three sisters. Patrick John Murdoch, his Scottish-born paternal grandfather, was a Presbyterian clergyman. Murdoch eventually elected to use his maternal grandfather’s first name as his surname. After his father died of cancer in 1952, his mother became a life governor of the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne and founded the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; she had 74 descendants at the age of 102.
Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School, where he co-edited The Corian and edited If Revived, the student newspaper. While working part-time for the Melbourne Herald, he captained his high school’s cricket team to the National Junior Finals. At Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, he was known as “Red Rupert” and kept a bust of Lenin in his chambers. He was a member of the Oxford University Labour Party and the owner of Oxford Student Publications Limited.
Rupert Murdoch Wife
Murdoch married Patricia Booker, a former Melbourne shop clerk and flight attendant, in 1956. He married Anna Torv, a Scottish-born cadet journalist for his Sydney newspaper The Daily Mirror, in 1967. Murdoch’s firms published his wife’s two novels, Family Business and Coming to Terms.
They divorced in June 1999, and Murdoch obtained a $1.2 billion asset settlement. Murdoch married Chinese-born Wendi Deng, a recent Yale School of Management graduate and freshly appointed vice-president, on June 25, 1999. Murdoch is the father of six children and grandfather to thirteen grandchildren. Hearsay about a connection with Chinese intelligence became problematic around the end of his marriage to Wendi.
Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in New York City, US, on June 13, 2013, according to a News Corporation representative. Murdoch announced his engagement to former model Jerry Hall in a notice in The Times newspaper on January 11, 2016. Murdoch and Hall were due to divorce in June 2022, according to the New York Times, claiming irreconcilable differences.
Murdoch proposed to his partner, Ann Lesley Smith, on Saint Patrick’s Day in 2023. Murdoch reportedly called off the couple’s engagement two weeks after it was announced. Murdoch’s dissatisfaction with Smith’s religious beliefs is said to have sparked the separation.
Rupert Murdoch Children
Murdoch has six children. Prudence MacLeod, Murdoch’s eldest child, was named to the board of Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International that publishes The Times and The Sunday Times, on January 28, 2011. Before resigning from his executive positions at the global media company at the end of July 2005, his elder son Lachlan, formerly the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at News Corporation and publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch’s heir apparent. Elisabeth Murdoch and her husband purchased a pair of NBC-affiliated television stations in California, KSBW and KSBY, using a $35 million loan supplied by her father after graduating from Vassar College and marrying Elkin Kwesi Pianim in 1993.
Elisabeth emerged as an unexpected rival to her brothers for control of the publishing business. She set out on her own as a television and film producer in London after divorcing Pianim in 1998 and openly quarrelling with her designated mentor Sam Chisholm at BSkyB.
Grace (born November 2001) and Chloe (born July 2003) are Murdoch’s two children with Wendi Deng. Tony Blair was announced to be Grace’s godfather in September 2011. Murdoch and his oldest children are at odds over the terms of a trust that holds the family’s 28.5% interest in News Corporation, which is believed to be worth $6.1 billion. Murdoch’s voting rights in the shares are split 50/50 between him and his offspring from his first two marriages.
Murdoch’s voting rights are not transferrable and will expire upon his death, leaving the shares solely in the hands of his offspring from previous marriages. Murdoch has declared his wish to give his children via Deng a measure of authority over the stock commensurate to their financial stake in it, but he does not appear to have any solid legal grounds to challenge the current arrangement.
Rupert Murdoch Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $21.7 billion.
Rupert Murdoch House
Murdoch purchased “Rosehearty,” an 11-bedroom property on a 5-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island, New York, in 2003. He purchased the Moraga Estate, an estate, vineyard, and winery in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, in May 2013. Murdoch and his new wife, Jerry Hall, bought Holmwood, an 18th-century mansion and estate in the English village of Binfield Heath, about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) north-east of Reading, in 2019.
Does Rupert Murdoch own a Yacht?
The renowned New Zealand-based shipyard Alloy Yachts constructed his remarkable sailing yacht, the SY Vertigo, and delivered it to her owner in 2011. The yacht is a great example of Phillipe Briand’s design talent, and Christian Liaigre did an excellent job designing the interior. The interior of Murdoch’s other opulent sailboat, Rosehearty, was also designed by Liaigre.
Vertigo is propelled to a top speed of 17 knots by two Caterpillar engines. Her comfortable cruising speed of 12 knots makes her suitable for open seas sailing.
The interior of the yacht has been meticulously designed to be child-friendly, and it has a TV room just for the owner’s two younger children. Vertigo also has a gym that is well-equipped and a posh beach club, both of which have big hull openings that make the experience on board better. The 11-person experienced crew of the sailing yacht ensures that everyone on board has an unforgettable experience and can comfortably accommodate up to 12 guests.
The SY Vertigo yacht may belong to Mr. Murdoch, according to online rumors. However, Y.CO informed Superyachtfan via email that Mr. Murdoch is not the Vertigo’s owner.
Superyachtfan doesn’t know who possesses Dizziness. However, we will retain Mr. Murdoch until we receive an email identifying the actual owner. We have to acknowledge that the “child-friendliness” does not actually link ownership to Murdoch but rather to Lachlan Murdoch. Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert’s son, could very well own the yacht. He also owned the sailing yacht Sarissa, and he is currently at Royal Huisman building a new, larger sailing yacht (Hull 404). It is estimated that Lachlan Murdoch has a net worth of $ 2 billion.
Rupert Murdoch Documentary
The Murdoch Dynasty: The Rise will be a three-part documentary series broadcast on BBC Two in 2020. It has been compared to the American television series Succession. It is about Rupert Murdoch, the business titan, and his political power, as well as the News International phone hacking incident and his children’s battles to succeed him.
Rupert Murdoch Wealth
Murdoch is the 34th richest person in the United States and the 96th richest person in the world, according to Forbes’ real-time list of billionaires, with a net worth of US$13.1 billion as of February 2017. In 2016, Forbes listed “Rupert Murdoch & Family” as the world’s 35th most powerful person. Rupert Murdoch and his family were rated 52nd on Forbes’ annual list of the world’s wealthiest in 2019.