Murdoch, Rupert
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| Birthname | Murdoch, Rupert Keath | ||
| born on | 11 March 1931 at 23:59 (= 11:59 PM ) | ||
| Place | Melbourne, Australia, 37s49, 144e58 | ||
| Timezone | AEST h10e (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   20°02'   24°21 Asc. 02°25'
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Biography
Australian-American entrepreneur who, after journalistic experience in London in 1962, took over the family's small newspaper and parlayed a barely profitable enterprise into several successful papers within two years. In 1981 he paid $27 million for the two-century old London Times, becoming a self-made tycoon. His media holdings include more than 80 publications on three continents and the American FOX television network. By 1998, his News Corp beamed Fox TV and movies worldwide and published an array of newspapers, magazines and books, estimated to be worth $5.3 billion.
After living in Australia and England, he became a naturalized American citizen on 9/05/1985. He has been married twice, the first time on 3/01/1956 and the second time, to Anna Torv, on 3/28/1967.
Unable to slow his incessant globe-trotting and deal making, and disinterested in the cultural events and domestic life that his wife offered, they separated in May 1988. As she is discreet and private, and a devout Catholic, it was a shock when she filed for divorce two months later.
Murdoch has a daughter from his first marriage, Prudence, 40, plus three kids with Anna. Their oldest son, Lachlan, 26, in line to take over the company, now runs the Australian operations and is a promising executive. Elisabeth, 29, is general manager of the British satellite-TV branch and James, 25, is deputy publisher of the New York post. Murdoch was married for the third time in July 1999, just 17 days after his divorce from wife number two, Anna, to his 36-year younger bride, former employee Wendi Dang, aboard his yacht in New York Harbor. In May 2000, Murdoch began a course of radiation treatment for prostrate cancer. A year later they announced that Wendi was expecting their first child. A nine pound daughter named Grace Helen was born to the conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 70, and wife Wendi Deng, 33 "the evening of 11/19/2001 at an undisclosed New York hospital."
On July 17, 2003, the 72-year-old media mogul and his 35-year-old wife welcomed their second child, Chloe, born in New York City.
Relationships
- spouse relationship with Murdoch, Anna (born 30 June 1944)
- has other family relationship with Murdoch, Kalan Alexander (born 9 November 2004)
Events
- Relationship : Marriage 1 March 1956 (First marriage)
- Relationship : Marriage 28 March 1967 (Second marriage)
- Social : Joined group 5 September 1985 (Became U.S. citizen)
- Health : Chronic illness May 2000 (Radiation therapy for prostrate cancer)
Source Notes
Gwen Stoney quotes a newspaper announcement given in "A Paper Prince," for "midnight ending he day, as the Australians calculate it," sent to LMR 4/1987.
(Dennis Sutton rectifies the time to 11:52 PM, given in Sutton's 50 Australian charts, published 1996)
Categories
- Vocation : Business : Entrepreneur
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Publisher)
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (Australia, London and U.S.)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Wealthy
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (One)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Financial success in field
- Vocation : Business : Business owner (80 publications and TV network)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Three)
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Interracial (Third wife Asian)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Four)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Prostrate)
- Family : Parenting : Parenting late more than 40 (Age 70 when third wife pregnant)
