Rupert Murdoch picks a son in the real-life succession battle

鲁伯特·默多克在现实生活中的继承权争夺战中选择了儿子

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2025-09-15

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Who is Lachlan Murdoch and how will he build on his father’s legacy? Emily Bell reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, how the new Murdoch successor will shape global media.

  • is the calm that comes when you know that you really do know.

  • People who read The Financial Times know that they can shape their own perspectives with confidence

  • because their viewpoints are informed by genuinely unbiased journalism.

  • The scene was the Washoe County Courthouse in Reno, Nevada.

  • Last September, private jets buzzed over the states,

  • mountains and deserts met by convoys of blacked out SUVs.

  • Inside,

  • Rupert Murdoch and his four adult children gathering behind closed doors to try to settle a bitter family feud.

  • A succession battle in Nevada over the future of one of the world's most powerful media empires might remind you of an award-winning TV drama.

  • A succession, anyone?

  • Billionaire publisher, Rupert Murdoch, wants just one of his children to succeed him,

  • and three of his other kids are trying to stop him from doing that.

  • The saying goes, Vegas is where you get married, Reno is where you get divorced.

  • And whilst this wasn't technically a divorce,

  • this was a climactic moment in the Murdoch Empire's succession battle that Pitt Rupert and his chosen son,

  • Lachlan, versus his three siblings, James, Elizabeth, and Prudence.

  • Media mogul Rupert Murdoch arriving Monday for evidentiary hearings

  • as he tries to change the terms of his family trust.