While Rupert Murdoch has spent over 80 years building an empire that shapes governments and democracies, the series poses the ultimate question: Is a dynasty a family or a business? The Murdochs offers an unprecedented look at one the world's most powerful families at a crossroads, as its scion, Rupert Murdoch, makes one last play to ensure his legacy at all costs. Drawing on thousands of pages of documents, emails, and text messages that have never before been seen on television, this limited series exposes the private machinations of a family torn apart by power, politics, and a desperate desire for their father’s love. Rupert Murdoch’s Wives & Children. In 1956, Murdoch married Patricia Booker (1st wife), a former shop assistant and flight attendant from Melbourne, Australia. They had one child, Prudence; they divorced in 1967. In 1967, Murdoch married Anna Torv (2nd wife), a Scottish-born cadet journalist working for his Sydney newspaper The Daily Mirror. They had 3 children - Elisabeth, Lachlan and James. They divorced in June 1999. 17 days later, on June 25, 1999, after divorcing his 2nd wife, Murdoch married Chinese-born Wendi Deng. She was 30, a a Yale School of Management graduate, and a newly appointed Vice President of his STAR TV. They had two daughters Grace and Chloe. In 2013, Murdoch filed for divorce from Wendi Deng. Rupert married his 4th wife, former model Jerry Hall in March 2016. She filed for divorce in July 2022 citing irreconcilable differences; it was finalized in August 2022. In June 2024, Rupert married Elena Zhukova, ex-wife of Russian businessman Alexander Zhukov; he was 93 and she was 67 years old; through this marriage, he became stepfather to Dasha Zhukova. I learned that Rupert Murdoch's 2nd Wife Anna Predicted the Family's Succession Legal Battle with Her 1988 Novel Family Business. Anna famously wrote a fictionalized version of her family's story, showing how a fight over succession could end badly for everyone. However, in the novel, "the Rupert Murdoch character is actually a woman, who, like Rupert, is incredibly passionate about newspapers and knows every detail about the process," one participant in the docuseries says, adding that protagonist "has three kids who all got claims to the business, and it shows how the succession could end in tears."
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