Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman to discuss his latest story on Rupert Murdoch, where this empire stands now, and how this 'Succession'-like story will end. The past year has been tumultuous within Fox News and the family of the 92-year-old conservative media mogul. Matt and Gabriel discuss the complicated succession plan, the family’s obsession with ‘Succession’, Rupert’s recent divorce from Jerry Hall, a broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, and the state of Rupert’s health. Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the opening weekend for Universal’s ‘Renfield’. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click this link: puck.news/thetown Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Gabriel Sherman Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.4	It is Friday, April 14th.
1:06.2	In the summer of 2019, I went to a party on a Sunday afternoon at Rupert Murdoch's house in Los Angeles.
1:12.1	It wasn't that special. There were hundreds of people there. Still, I've been a Murdoch
1:15.8	ologist for most of my career. I find him and his businesses and his family fascinating. And he
1:20.2	lives on this really cool winery property in the Hidden Canyon in Bel Air, not that far from the
1:24.2	4 or 5 freeway. On the invite, this event said it was to celebrate the Maraga wine label that has grown on the Murdoch property.
1:30.7	But it was also to show the town that Rupert, who was then 88, was healthy and in good spirits
1:35.9	and recovered from a serious fall earlier that year and an even more serious back injury on the yacht a year before.
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