Author Gabriel Sherman on Murdoch’s Media Empire: ‘A Monster He No Longer Controls’

Who’d have thought there would be a fifth season of “Succession?”

Yet that’s essentially what media watchers got to watch in 2024 by way of a courtroom battle for control of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire. 

The saga pitted Rupert and his conservative eldest son, Lachlan, against the more left-leaning James, TV producer Elisabeth and eldest daughter Prudence. The family fought it out in a Nevada probate court over Rupert’s attempt to amend a family trust to cut the younger siblings out of steering the ship.