Rupert Murdoch

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Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party Keith Rupert Murdoch Born 11 March 1931 (age 80) Melbourne, Australia Nationality United States Citizenship United States (naturalized 1985) Chairman and CEO of Occupation News Corporation Net worth US$7.6 billion (2011)[1] Patricia Booker (m. 19561967) (divorced) Spouse Anna Maria Torv (m. 19671999) (divorced) Wendi Deng (m. 1999present) Prudence Murdoch (b. 1958) [2] Elisabeth Murdoch (b. 1968) [2] Lachlan Murdoch (b. 1971)[2] Children James Murdoch (b. 1972)[2] Grace Murdoch (b. 2001) [3] Chloe Murdoch (b. 2003) [2] Parents Keith Murdoch (18851952)

Relatives Awards

Elisabeth Joy (ne Greene, b. 1909) Matthew Freud (son-in-law) Sarah Murdoch (daughter-in-law) Companion of the Order of Australia (1984).[4]

Notes a Australian citizenship lost in 1985 (under S17 of Australian Citizenship Act 1948) with acquisition of US nationality Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American business magnate. He is the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.[5][6][7][8] In 1953, Murdoch became managing director of News Limited, inherited from his father. [3][9] He acquired troubled newspapers in Australia and New Zealand during the 1950s and '60s before expanding into the UK in 1969, taking over the News of the World and then the The Sun, which he built into Britain's best selling daily. He moved to New York in 1974 and expanded into the US market, and in 1985 he became a US citizen.[9] In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet. In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989)[10] and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion. In July 2011 Murdoch faced allegations that his companies including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of private citizens. He also faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption in the UK and FBI investigations in the US.[11][12] Murdoch has been listed three times in the Time 100 as among the most influential people in the world. He is ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes' The World's Most Powerful People list.[13] With a personal net worth of US$7.6 billion, he was ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world in March 2011