Is this the beginning of the end for Rupert’s empire?
Where does this bombshell finding leave the future of the century-old conservative media empire — one that meddles ferociously in the politics of the US, the UK and Australia?
Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch (Image: Private Media)
A scathing legal finding released to a sealed court in Reno, Nevada, last Saturday has sown the seeds that could unravel the global Murdoch media empire.
Its architect — Edmund J. Gorman Jr (known as “Joe”), an obscure probate commissioner in Nevada’s Second Judicial District Court — has set the stage for the denouement of the century-old Murdoch dynasty with his conclusion that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch acted in “bad faith” when they tried to alter the family’s irrevocable trust. This change would have given Lachlan control of the empire, instead of adhering to the trust’s terms that divide control equally among...
