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The Succession scene that sparked the Murdochs' court case turmoil: how life imitated art imitating life

Leaks from a court case in Nevada have revealed the Murdoch children are locked in a new battle for control of their father’s media empire... and Succession may have kickstarted it

But actually, there had been a straightforward plan in place, a trust agreed as part of the divorce from Murdoch by the children’s mother, Torv where all four siblings – Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and, his daughter from his first marriage, Prudence – would take an equal share of the business. The New York Times have revealed leaked documents from a court case in Nevada, in which the commissioner there ruled against Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change the family trust to ensure eldest son Lachlan had control of the media empire. Commissioner Edmund J Gorman Jr rejected the move, saying father and son had “acted in bad faith” and was a “carefully crafted charade… to permanently cement Lachlan Murdoch ’s executive roles…regardless of the impacts such control would have over the companies or the [family trust] beneficiaries.”

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