Rupert Murdoch is in a “secret legal battle” against three of his kids “over the future of the family’s media empire, as he moves to preserve it as a conservative political force after his death,” because of course it had to be like this since it was the plot of that popular HBO series that was a thinly veiled roman-a-clef of the Murdoch family and Fox News, the New York Times reports.
Basically Rupert made a change last year to the family trust to solidify oldest son Lachlan’s control over the Fox and News Corporations’ vast network of TV channels, radio stations, and newspapers after the old man finally kicks it, cutting out the other kids. “Those three siblings – James, Elisabeth and Prudence – were caught completely off-guard by their father’s effort to rewrite what was supposed to be an inviolable trust and have united to stop him. Remarkably, the ensuing battle has been playing out entirely out of public view,” the Times writes about the intra-family war.
What the family lacks however is a grossly incompetent older half-brother running a stupid and pointless third party presidential bid. That role was outsourced to Robert F Kennedy Jr in real life.