Rupert Murdoch has been officially blocked from making a “Succession-style” ploy to transfer power of NewsCorp directly to his eldest son Lachlan, his chosen successor. This week, a real-life battle ...

The Murdoch Family Trust holds more than ... As one sharemarket analyst told me when I wrote The Successor, my 2022 biography of Lachlan, “fair to assume Lachlan gets fired the day Rupert ...

Rupert Murdoch has been officially blocked from making a “Succession-style” ploy to transfer power of NewsCorp directly to his eldest son Lachlan, his chosen successor. This week, a real-life ...

Paddy Manning, an Australian journalist who wrote The Successor, a biography of Lachlan Murdoch, says the eldest son felt that his father should have backed him in the dispute. "When he left he ...

The 93-year-old Rupert Murdoch is very much alive, and there is no doubt who he wants as his successor: his eldest son, Lachlan. But the TV death sparked talks among some of the Murdoch children.

Paddy Manning recounts in his 2022 biography of Lachlan Murdoch, The Successor, that the infamous Roger Ailes did just this as Lachlan was learning the ropes at Fox in the early 2000s. The three ...

In The Successor: The High-Stakes Life Of Lachlan Murdoch, Manning revealed that Lachlan even considered buying out his siblings from the trust in 2019 – but baulked at the multi-billion-dollar ...

Paddy Manning is author of The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch (Black Inc, 2022) and reporter on the ABC’s Background Briefing podcast, “Murdoch’s Endgame”.

A Nevada probate commissioner blows up his attempt to ditch the family trust. Now the test is how the Murdoch children will steer a sprawling empire when the patriarch is gone.