S18E5: Little Lies | Rupert Murdoch (Trashy Divorces Classics)

Trashy Divorces

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History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In light of the eye-popping $1.6 billion defamation case between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, we thought today would be a fine day to roll out something we've been thinking about for a while: update episodes about subjects we've covered before. First up at bat is international media mogul and apparent democracy skeptic Rupert Murdoch, who's had an extremely eventful four-ish years since we first covered him back in 2019. We bring you up to date with the man and some of his troubles, then treat you to the classic original episode. Whatever your feelings about 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch (and we have many), no one will ever be able to accuse him of slowing down in business or romance.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome to another edition of Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:19.4	My name's Alicia and Stacy. Today we have something that's a
0:23.0	little bit overdue in the marital misadventure part of the world today for the people. Is that right?
0:28.8	For the people, it is. So in our Facebook group on the website and in our email boxes, a number of
0:34.7	you have asked about various of our past profilees who have managed to
0:40.0	stay in the news through hook and crook. So, you know, you've wondered if we plan to revisit any of those
0:46.4	stories or had given any new thought to the opinions we had at the time. And the short answer is yes.
0:53.4	The longer answer is that today, because of the $1.6 billion
0:57.4	lawsuit against Fox News and the spectacle of both its primetime lineup and its longtime leader
1:04.0	testifying under oath in the case about a whole lot of lying, we are going to revisit the story of News Corp's
1:12.7	CEO, the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a super rich guy.
1:18.2	We first brought you Rupert's story back in July of 2019.
1:22.0	Oh, the naive days of our youth before so very many things had happened.
1:29.3	He was at the time married to Jerry Hall, McJaggers ex-partner, and boy, were we all so innocent back then in the
1:35.7	Halcyon days of the before times. Innocence might be an understatement, but let's do it. Today,
1:42.2	Stacey, you're going to bring us up to speed on what's happened in
1:45.2	all the Rupert's life over the last four-ish years because I'm pretty sure he's no longer married
1:50.8	to Jerry Hall. Yeah, he and Jerry are Splitsville and have been for a minute. I'm going to draw
1:57.2	from an article in the current issue of Vanity Fair, written by Gabriel Sherman,
2:02.5	to get into the more contemporaneous, long, strange trip of the now 92-year-old mogul,
2:09.9	and then we're going to re-air our original story from back in 2019.
2:13.8	We know a lot of you have found us more recently, and maybe you haven't gotten to that episode yet.
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