Locked in a fight over patriarch Rupert’s right-wing global media empire, the Murdoch clan is battling to keep its succession feud in ironclad legal secrecy. So secret, in fact, that their legal squabbles don’t even appear on a public court schedule.
That could soon change.
In July, The New York Times reported that 93-year-old Murdoch filed a petition late last year to amend the family trust to grant exclusive control to his eldest son and anointed successor, 52-year-old Lachlan. Before that, equal voting shares were supposed to be awarded to his eldest four children.
