Rupert Murdoch & family

Chairman and CEO, News Corp
$20.64B
$50.1M (-0.2%)
as of 10/03/24

About Rupert Murdoch & family

Rupert Murdoch built a media empire that includes cable channel Fox News, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal. He stepped down as chairman in September 2023.

Murdoch sold most of Fox's movie studio, FX, and National Geographic Networks and its stake in Star India to Disney for $71.3 billion in March 2019.

Murdoch's son, Lachlan, runs the new Fox, which consists of its broadcast, cable news, business and sports networks.

Though several of his companies are known for their conservative tilt, he initially urged Mike Bloomberg to run for president against Donald Trump.

A native of Australia, Murdoch inherited a newspaper at age 22 after his father, a former war correspondent, passed away.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Newspapers, TV network

Residence

New York, New York

Marital status

Engaged

Birth date

03/11/31 (age 93)

Number of children

6

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Oxford University; Master of Arts, Oxford University

Self-made

inherited and growing

Rupert Murdoch & family’s fortune is worth

344K

troy ounces of gold

317K

median U.S. household

206K

median U.S. income

0.413%

U.S. credit card volume

0.083%

GDP of the United States

0.061%

United States debt

Net worth history

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Did you know?

Murdoch has been married five times, including to Jerry Hall, who is a former model and Mick Jagger's ex-wife. He wed retired biologist Elena Zhukova in June 2024.

Net worth over time

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Financial assets

NASDAQ | FOXA-US

Fox Corp. Class A

NASDAQ | NWS-US

News Corp. (Cl B)

NYSE | DIS-US

Walt Disney

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