Rupert Murdoch DEFEATED

Just die already

What a cretinous slimebag. I LOVED reading the vanity fair article about his decades younger third wife (who he dumped his second wife for) who ended up cheating on him with Tony Blair and pushing him into a piano. He suffered permanent spinal damage.

How can one change an irrevocable trust?

The term 'irrevocable trust' refers to any trust where the grantor cannot change or end the trust after its creation. Grantors may choose a trust with such limitations to limit estate taxes or to shield assets from creditors.

So how can one even attempt to change it?

[quote] Technically, Gorman is not a judge. As the probate commissioner in Washoe County, he is effectively a “special master” assigned to weigh evidence in disputes, including in triallike hearings such as those he will hold with the Murdochs, and then write his legal opinion at the end, as a judge would.

[quote]His opinion is formally a recommendation that requires signoff from one of the judicial district’s three probate judges. The judge will have to weigh in more directly if either party challenges Gorman’s recommendation – which must be done within 14 days of his decision. The judge could at that point open the case to still more litigation.

[quote]Even after that, the losing side has the right to try to appeal up through the Nevada court system.

[quote]“Something like this could go on for years,” said Molly LeGoy, a probate lawyer in Reno. That is, she said, a common risk of such family trust battles, which, geopolitical implications or no, often surface sibling rivalry, betrayal and ancient emotional grievance.

Don't worry Rupert, we got your back. Go ahead and keep appealing

R3, Murdoch could not take back any of the property governed by the trust but he could make changes provided that they were beneficial to his heirs. In this case, he wanted to make a change that would benefit one son over his other children; that was the basis for the lawsuit.

It'll be incredibly fun if Fox News starts attacking James and Elisabeth and they decide to return fire.

Not a federal issue. SCOTUS has no jurisdiction.

I wonder how many medications it takes to keep him walking around?

Drop dead you and your orange friend.

Rupert Murdoch Defecated - all over himself.

Couldn’t the wife have found a WINDOW instead of just a piano, r2?

Where’s an open window when you need it?

All that money and it never occurred to him to have that saggy bloodhound skin tightened? Why do billionaires often look awful with crooked yellow-gray teeth, etc.?

He was trying to argue that the trust would make more money with Lachlan in charge and following in his right-wing footsteps. Nice. Lachlan skews even further to the right. He moved his family back to Australia because their kids were getting frozen out of LA school circles. Gotta keep Fux going.

Lachlan used to be semi-hot but he's looking more like vintage Rupes now with that smarmy expression.

Seduced and Abandoned Seduced and Abandoned MARCH 2014 Seduced and Abandoned VIEW ARTICLE PAGES Features SEDUCED AND ABANDONED The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, MARK SEAL reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng’s ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom?

MARCH 2014 MARK SEAL ANNIE LEIBOVITZ The passionate note surfaced amid the flotsam of a shipwrecked marriage. It was written in broken English by a woman to herself, pouring out her love for a man called Tony. “Oh, shit, oh, shit,” she wrote. “Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt.... And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage... and what else and what else and what else...”

The woman was Wendi Deng Murdoch, the Chinese wife of the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The note, not revealed until now, could have been one of the few pieces of evidence in their surprise divorce last year, had the case come to trial. “Tony” was the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair.

Is she retarded? WTF writes shit like that?

Judge to Murdoch: "Srsly, Dude, you gotta stop watching Succession."

Why in Reno???

He was judge shopping R17, he thought he’d find an Aileen Cannon in that court.

Curious as to why? Does he favor this Lachlan character over his other kids? What's with rich men and these ugly Asian women? Plenty of stunning Asian women so why the fugs?

Even if Rupert sees the light tomorrow, I wouldn't know how to fix News Corp to my (or James' liking). Above all, I'm sure the three liberal kids want to preserve their assets and not kill the goose that still lays golden eggs. So they wouldn't just close shop at Fox News. They may try to transform News Corp from right wing to center right and with it Fox News. But that will alienate their viewers and the talent without getting new viewers. And Newsmax is probably on standby to take on the leftovers. They would benefit big time from any shake up over at Fox News. How do you transform the network without the current viewers noticing or caring?

Nevada like many small states (it used to be small) made their state law very beneficial for a particular legal process (in this case secretive trusts) to attract wealthy people from elsewhere.

So what doss this mean:

1. The Murdoch siblings will almost certainly overrule Lachlan and sell News Corporation upon their father’s death.

2. Elon Musk will almost certainly buy it.

R19, he believed that only Lachlan could continue his conservative legacy at Fox. Remember 'Chinatown'? The thing the rich ultimately want to own is the future.

r22, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what James would not want to happen. He and maybe his sisters have a political agenda, too. It would not serve their agenda to just push the company aside so that someone else will continue the dirty work. It's going to be interesting. First we will see many years of lawsuits. They may settle by pushing Lachlan out. And then?

If Fox News stopped shilling for the Republicans, someone else would step in and the audience would follow like lemmings.

Fox News has a shelf life. Its audience is fixed and will not replenish. Cable television is dying. The liberal Murdochs can sell it and use the proceeds to promote causes they support more effectively.

I would love to see Fox News torn apart by Rupert's kids and their competing agendas.

But if they do put it up for sale and Elon buys it, he'll destroy it in less than six months.

Either way, we all win.

We've got your back, Rupert. Don't worry.

Wendy is Putin’s bitch. That’s why Murdoch married her.

Gotta keep that dictatorial oligarchy going and expanding by any means necessary.

Remember when the feckless cunt Vanky met the Deng bitch in Croatia back in 2016?

I didn’t fucking forget.

MAGA doesn’t need Fox anymore.

What happened R29?

What a hideous old fuck.

Lachlan is a tortured gay. He was practically out before he narrated Sarah

*married

News to me-because of the father he stayed in the closet?

93 years of is more than enough for an evildoer

R18 is stoopid. It was filed in Reno because it’s a trust under Nevada law. In probate court, where the praising officer was a special master, not a judge.

Idiots in this site.

I heard rumors about Lachlan too, years ago, back when he was a weightlifter and looked pretty hot and didn't seem interested in dating. But now he looks paunchy and straight.

These old mother fuckers are resilient and hateful as fuck. Ive recently started working a customer facing job at work and the amount of old hateful pricks is so abundant!

This, r31.

What passed between these two from Putin and to the traitor?

R33, there have long been gay rumours about both Lachlan and Sarah. She took over as the main Revlon face from Cindy, but wasn't as big a superstar.

[quote]Curious as to why? Does he favor this Lachlan character over his other kids?

Lachlan kisses his ass the most, and hews to his right-wing sensibility. James is far more center-left, and never sucked up to Dad; ditto Elisabeth, who was always going indie and breaking away from her father's hold.

The eldest daughter, from his 1st marriage, has never been that interested in the business side or running things. The younger daughters are still teens or college-age.

[quote]What's with rich men and these ugly Asian women?

Wendy was never really thought of as ugly, when she was younger and got together with Murdoch. She also violently sucked up to him and told him everything he wanted to hear, thereby securing her bag for life.

I think his 2nd wife and Jerry Hall actually cared for him and tried to reason honestly with him, to only suffer rejection and abandonment for their efforts.

Oh for God's sake JUST DIE!!!!

[quote]James is far more center-left

He is nowhere near centre-left. You'd have to be a full-on Trumper who thinks Obama was a socialist to actually think that.

Well then what is he r44? Please correct me. I know he is much further to the left, socially and politically, than Lachlan or his father. It's why he was passed over for Lachlan. He and his wife donated heavily to the Biden 2020 campaign and publicly supported Harris in 2024.

Perhaps it's better to say he's much more moderate than Lachlan or Rupert, and leave it at that.

Centrist at very best. The fact he's on the board of Tesla should be instructive.

[quote] He and his wife donated heavily to the Biden 2020 campaign and publicly supported Harris in 2024.

... and a big financial supporter of the (Chelsea) Clinton foundation.

All centrists. Again, unless you're rabidly right wing there's no possible way to describe Clinton, Biden nor Harris as centre left.

[quote] there's no possible way to describe ... You'd have to be a full-on Trumper who thinks Obama was a socialist

You're using bad rhetoric over facts.

And what facts have been presented to show he's centre-left? Again, neither Biden, Harris nor Clinton were centre-left. Christ, Clinton came up with his whole Third Way bullshit to present and promote centrism.

Now you're deflecting.

Question is: What could a new leadership do with Fox News? Journalistically they could turn it into the best news outlet ever, online and cable, at highest journalistic standards. Newsmax and OAN would welcome this change.

r51 You don't seem to know what a lot of the words you use actually mean. But go on, present your "facts" that show James Murdoch is centre-left.

r52 Notice how there was no family opposition to Fox News until Trump? They were perfectly happy when it was an establishment GOP mouthpiece, and they were still getting invited to all the good events. So that's what they want to go back to.

He looks like an aging Shar Pei. I hope they have anti-bacterial cream for those folds.

I think Rupert's point was that they'd have to keep Fox News a hard-right news organization because otherwise it would lose viewers to the total propaganda networks (OAN, Newsmax, etc.) and then all four kids would end up losing money.

I think the other three kids don't care about that. They have plenty of other media properties to keep the money coming in.

R52, they could use some of the resources to do that, but would need to rebrand.