Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Divorcing After 6 Years of Marriage (Report)
thewrap.comNew York Times first reported the news, citing “two people with knowledge of the decision who would only speak anonymously.”Bryce Thom, a spokesman for Murdoch, would not comment to TheWrap, and representatives for Ms.
Hall did not immediately comment.This fourth divorce for Murdoch is not believed to change his ownership and stake-holding in parent companies of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
The Murdoch family’s shares in the companies lie in a tightly controlled trust, and Mr. Murdoch splits the voting rights over that trust with his four oldest children — Lachlan, Elisabeth, James and Prudence.
But they are structured so that the children can’t outvote Murdoch.The Times did say that “the split could nonetheless reverberate throughout [Murdoch’s] business empire,” which includes Fox News Channel in the United States, the Sun in Britain and Sky News in Australia.
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