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Murdoch family

Members of the Murdoch family are prominent international media magnates and media tycoons with roots in Australia and the United Kingdom, along with their media assets in the United States.[1] Some members have also been prominent in the arts, clergy, and military.

Not to be confused with Murdaugh family.

Murdoch family

Australia
United Kingdom
United States

Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Freud family

Five generations of the family are descended from two Scottish immigrants to Australia: the Reverend James Murdoch (1818–1884), a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and his wife Helen, née Garden (1826–1905).[2] Both were from the Pitsligo area of Aberdeenshire and migrated to the Colony of Victoria in 1884.[2]


Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is known for being one of the founders and the owner of formerly the world's largest media company News Corporation, a company that was spun-off in mid 2013 splitting its entertainment assets to 21st Century Fox and its media publishing assets to form the new News Corp.[3][4][5] Currently the Murdochs still have the controlling interest in the remains of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company that was spun-off to Fox Corporation, and still remain as top executives of News Corp.[6]

1956–1967: to Patricia Booker, a flight attendant from Melbourne, with whom he had one child, Mrs .[18][19][20]

Prudence MacLeod

1967–1999: to (later Anna Murdoch Mann; born 1944),[18] a Scottish journalist of Estonian descent, who worked on Murdoch's Sydney Daily Telegraph, later published two novels and is the aunt of actress Anna Torv.[20] Torv and Murdoch had three children, Elisabeth Murdoch (b. 1968), Lachlan Murdoch (b. 1971) and James Murdoch (b. 1972).[18][19]

Anna Maria Torv

1999–2013 to , a Chinese-US media executive and company director,[21] They had two daughters, Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Tony Blair is Grace Murdoch's godfather. In June 2013, Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from Wendi Murdoch, citing irreconcilable differences.

Wendi Deng

2016–2022 to , an American model and actress. They divorced in 2022.

Jerry Hall

2024– to retired Elena Zhukova.[22]

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