This article is an instalment in a series, Project Harmony, on Rupert Murdoch’s secret plan threatening to blow up his family.
There has always been a fatal gap in the Rupert-to-Lachlan succession plan: it relied on Rupert’s three other eldest children being happy with Lachlan managing about US$5 billion of their inheritance without them having a say.
Good luck with that. “Come not between a dragon and its wrath,” cautions Lear when his own succession plans go awry. A better quote might be: “Come not between trust fund children and their payout.”
As a result of secretive court filings in Reno, Nevada, reported by The
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