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Post by dolphie on Jul 19, 2011 14:59:39 GMT -5
The one man with the courage to stand up to Power Mongers throughout the world. The one man who allows other opinions to be spoken without repercussion. In an era when conglomerates like Soros, China, Russia, Mid-East, South & Central America try to dictate what we, HUMAN BEINGS, should think, hear, have access to - This man's legacy has helped the people see reality. We can see the strategy to enslave our nations so that we become a world run by dictators and the peons are not allowed a say - they must work to support the gluttonous lives of the morally bankrupt politicians. Yet - Murdoch stands tall and creates a pathway to truth for us. What we KNOW in our hearts to be true - we finally see that we are not losing it, that there are others of like mind. WE are on the path of reality - not the KOOLAID sipping, feel good left. I am now a follower of Murdoch - he did not have to respond so humbly. He could have told them to take a hike and scampered off with his billions. Instead, his words touch me deeply. Statement to Parliamentary: www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/19/read-statement-rupert-and-james-murdoch-were-not-allowed-to-read-before/Biography: www.biography.com/articles/Rupert-Murdoch-9418489Rupert Murdoch Biography in full Keith Rupert Murdoch ( 1931 – ) (born March 11, 1931, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Australian-born newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur, founder and head of the global media holding company the News Corporation Ltd., which governed News Limited (Australia), News International (U.K.), and News America Holdings Inc. (U.S.). Murdoch's corporate interests centred on newspaper, magazine, book, and electronic publishing; television broadcasting; and film and video production, principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. //////////// JD - you are the worst judge of character. You, who profess that you care about the regular person. You are just another clog in the wheel towards enslavement. Continue being the couch potato that chows down on the lies perpetuated by the left - continue with the social re-engineering being forced upon this nation. Just admit what a sorry person you are - you are filled with animus and hatred because you are too lazy to get a life. Instead, you prefer to attack all that is good. Disgusting. Like I said time and time again - move to China, Russia, Venezuela where they believe like you. \\\\\\\\\\\
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Post by Turk on Jul 19, 2011 15:39:03 GMT -5
I watched about an hour of the hearings this morning, Rupert's son was very impressive with his responses. Rupert's wife smacked a guy over the head when he went after her husband. She reacted faster than the police and she looked about 50 years younger than Rupert.
Both father and son seemed humbled.
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Post by dolphie on Jul 19, 2011 16:31:23 GMT -5
I watched about an hour of the hearings this morning, Rupert's son was very impressive with his responses. Rupert's wife smacked a guy over the head when he went after her husband. She reacted faster than the police and she looked about 50 years younger than Rupert. Both father and son seemed humbled. I have not had the chance to listen to the hearings. I LOVE Murdoch's wife and wish I had seen what she did!!! Women of action! What as the son like? I would imagine, with a father like his, that he is well spoken?
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Post by dolphie on Jul 19, 2011 18:00:51 GMT -5
blogs.forbes.com/steveforbes/2011/07/18/why-rupert-murdoch-will-survive-and-thrive-again/#more-225Why Rupert Murdoch Will Survive And Thrive Again Jul. 18 2011 - 6:38 pm | 6,085 views It will be of little solace to Rupert Murdoch, but every great leader faces a supreme crisis that can destroy everything he has built and for which there is no playbook. This humbling fact of life came glaringly through in a book I co-authored with John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of The Ancient World and Today…and The Lessons You Can Learn (Crown Business, 2009). No matter how smart and capable an individual is, no matter how on top of his game, he or she will be hit with a sudden disaster for which he must draw upon his own internal resources, making judgments for which there often is no precedent. A great crisis can come from a leader’s own mistakes, from circumstances beyond his control or from a mixture of both. Countless examples abound. Alexander the Great, triumphant in so many seemingly impossible battles, made a fundamental error when he took his army from Persia to Afghanistan and India. His troops wanted to go home; they had destroyed their traditional rival, Persia. Alexander ignored their complaints and then faced the ultimate insult to a commander, a mutiny: His army forced him to turn around. A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America, was one of history’s great, innovative bankers. He started in San Francisco, servicing two groups ignored by traditionalists—immigrants and merchant seaman. He played a decisive role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. He financed Hollywood studios in the early days and financed California’s nascent wine industry. Bank of America grew exponentially. Then came 1933 and Giannini’s stunning existential crisis. When Franklin Roosevelt took office he immediately shut all the banks in the U.S—the famous Bank Holiday. The idea was to see which banks were solvent, which insolvent. Those allowed to reopen would thus have the full confidence of depositors. Giannini’s competitors and enemies saw their opening and worked with the regulators, who didn’t like Giannini’s unconventional ways, to shutter his institution. It was nasty politics, pure and simple. Giannini rushed to Washington and had to fight a harrowing battle to stop this demolition coup. At great cost, emotionally and physically, he ultimately succeeded. The lesson is clear: All great leaders at some point will go through the dark valley.Rupert Murdoch’s numerous foes are trying to use the phone-hacking scandal to destroy him. Once friendly politicians are scurrying for cover, like scared rabbits.But those who think this is the end of Murdoch should recall his first great crisis. Twenty years ago his company was almost destroyed because of excessive debt. News Corp. expanded aggressively in the 1980s. Its ultimate acquisition was Triangle Communications, of which TV Guide was the crown jewel. But then came a recession in which advertising revenues were severely whacked. News Corp. was loaded with short-term bank loans. William Rhodes, who worked for Citibank and was also the industry’s renowned troubleshooter when countries or other big borrowers got into trouble, recounts in his memoir, Banker to the World: “The banks were worried about bankruptcy. They had serious concerns about Murdoch’s capacity to run News Corp. because of the enormous amounts of debt he had taken on.” Adding to Murdoch’s woes was the fact that News Corp. owed money to hundreds of banks. Notes Rhodes, “So many banks were involved that even if one bank held out, it could push Murdoch into bankruptcy.” So little faith did people have in Murdoch that News Corp.’s bonds were yielding 47%. A lesser man would have buckled under such intense pressure. Murdoch began by convincing Rhodes himself that he would do whatever it took to restructure the company. Then began hair-whitening negotiations to get all the banks to go along. There were those who thought they could get a better deal by holding out. Murdoch became personally involved in working with the banks’ “workout” executives. “It was rare for CEOs to talk directly to banks. They usually left that task to their CFOs. But Murdoch got down in the trenches,” observes Rhodes. Before the crisis was over, Murdoch had to sell off a number of treasured assets. But against all odds, he saved his company. As Rhodes concludes, “It was his willingness to face reality, recognize his mistakes, and to do what was necessary as CEO that demonstrated why and how he had built such a successful empire.” I remember seeing Murdoch at a 1991 event during the pit of the crisis. To use the adjectives “haggard” or “gaunt” to describe how he looked would have been a supreme understatement. Obviously the particulars of today’s crisis are different for Murdoch. But like great leaders, he is drawing on his own inner resources to deal with this threat. As in 1991, he has become intensely involved personally, visiting the family of the young girl who was abducted and whose cell phone was hacked. He has also had to make extremely painful personal and professional decisions in recent days. Cooler heads should note a few facts: Murdoch is a genuine entrepreneur, who created News Corp. and did so in ways that no business school would teach. While News Corp.’s U.K. newspapers are at the center of the hacking scandal, shareholders should not forget that they constitute a relatively small part of this impressive empire. Those who say News Corp would be better off without Murdoch at the helm should think again. During this time of unprecedented media turmoil, thanks to the Web, News Corp.’s class B stock is down about 15%, its class A 10% from what they were at the beginning of the millennium. In comparison the New York Times is down 82%, Gannett 83%; Sony 80%; Time Warner 77%.As far as Murdoch’s stewardship of the Wall Street Journal, its greatest asset— the editorial page—is stronger than ever. The paper itself has become a full-fledged daily. It is livelier and more readable, and its circulation has actually gone up, in vivid contrast with the New York Times’ circulation, which has slumped. The WSJ’s website also has a successful pay wall. Bottom line: As in 1991, Murdoch will survive to fight and thrive another day — and deservedly so.
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Post by dolphie on Jul 20, 2011 12:01:05 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/19/is-woman-hear-her-roar-wendi-deng-murdoch-fights-back/She Is Woman, Hear Her Roar -- Wendi Deng Murdoch Fights BackBy Kristi Stone Hamrick Published July 19, 2011 | FoxNews.com Wendi got game. Those of us addicted to streaming news feeds at all hours of the day were numbly watching the public flogging that was hyped as hearings in the British Parliament on Tuesday, when the extraordinary happened. A woman rose up to stand by her man without a sex scandal in sight. Rupert and James Murdoch were testifying about their recollection of events surrounding what has grown into the News of the World scandal. (Those of you with better things to do might not know that the media mogul Murdoch is being questioned about the tactics some of his reporting staff undertook, including wire taps, paying for news tips and generally beating the competition to shreds with scoops. In response, politicians are clamoring for a chance to say – on camera – how horrified they are about the entire ordeal. Simply horrified.) And then, in the middle of the spectacle, a good old-fashioned smack down put the entire event into perspective. A self-proclaimed comedian “Jonnie Marbels” allegedly showed up at this solemn moment of pontification to attempt a shot at 15 minutes of fame by smacking the elder Murdoch in the face with a “white foam pie.” Of course, in proper journalistic fashion, I write allegedly, despite the fact that it was caught on tape – worldwide – and that prior to attempting this humiliation of the prisoner in the stocks, the oh so funny Marbels “tweeted:” "It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat" But former champion volleyball player Wendi Deng Murdoch flew across the table to smack down the pie and put the heckler on the floor. Nobody was going to toss a pie at her husband and get away with it. A breath of fresh air moved through the stale political air as one woman decided that she really meant “for better of for worse” when she married Rupert Murdoch in 1999. She put the “power” in power couple. Though she is a native of China, one wonders if there isn’t a little Amazon in her blood. After all, she did what every wife and mother wants to do when someone behaves like a cretin towards her family. She fought back. Her fierce loyalty to her husband was not the pale version that we’ve been forced to watch so often lately as other political wives grit their teeth to stand beside philandering mates, begging to stay on the public dole. The hero of Tuesday’s hearings will not be found among the tired political figures trying to score points at Murdoch’s expense, or the journalist competitors to his media empire who salaciously report on every twist in this story of media misbehavior, in part out of self-interest. The hero of Tuesday’s hearing is a woman who did not wait for some rent-a-cop to come to her aid or who trembled in horror at the malicious prank. Wendi was woman; hear her roar. When the foam dust settled, Rupert Murdoch took off his spoiled jacket, and declined a break in the hearings. With dignity, he and Wendi again took their places, respectfully answering questions. The world got to observe a real marriage at work in a moment of public difficulty. But future pranksters, beware. Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall hearing tables with a single bound. It’s a bird; it’s a plane... No, it’s Super Wendi! My hero. Read more: www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/19/is-woman-hear-her-roar-wendi-deng-murdoch-fights-back/#ixzz1SfKqTNEU
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Post by dolphie on Jul 20, 2011 12:28:48 GMT -5
It is interesting that his wife is so fiercely loyal and protective of her husband.
The family as a whole is dignified, respectful and intelligent.
What is sad - why do people assume that the owner of a company knows that the people on the assembly put gum under the table in the lunch room.
Why do people believe the competition? Why do people believe the untrue - just because the people are of a different socioeconomic level?
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Post by dolphie on Jul 24, 2011 12:55:48 GMT -5
As time goes by and questions asked/answered - we see the grace and elegance of a family that has helped this country have an outlet for free speech and access to real information rather than twisted events.
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Post by dolphie on Jul 24, 2011 13:50:19 GMT -5
As the plot thickens - apparently it was common practice for the tabloids to hack into mobile phones, at least in the UK. It is looking more and more like the politicians want to take down a news organization that is not bought and paid for by them. www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/24/new-uk-tabloid-dragged-into-phone-hacking-scandalEurope New U.K. Tabloid Dragged Into Phone Hacking Scandal Published July 24, 2011 | Associated Press LONDON – One British newspaper has already been felled by the escalating scandal over the interception of public figures' voicemails. Now storm clouds are gathering over the Trinity Mirror group, the publisher of Britain's left-leaning Mirror tabloid, amid allegations that phone hacking was rife there as well. James Hipwell, who used to work at the Mirror, said hacking was a common tactic among his former colleagues. "It was seen as a bit of a wheeze, slightly underhand but something many of them did," James Hipwell was quoted as saying by The Independent on Saturday. "After they'd hacked into someone's mobile they'd delete the message so another paper couldn't get the story," Hipwell said Hipwell declined comment when reached by The Associated Press, saying he was seeking legal advice before revealing anything more to the media. But he confirmed that the interview was accurate. The allegation isn't exactly new. Hipwell, who was fired from the Mirror in 2000, first aired the claim nearly a decade ago. His dismissal from the Mirror, coupled with a conviction for market manipulation several years later, may have also gone some way toward denting his credibility. Still his claim has received renewed attention given the intense focus on Britain's media following the eruption of a phone hacking scandal which has shaken British politics, tarnished the reputation of the country's top police force and weakened Rupert Murdoch's media empire. It's been backed by allegations of misbehavior at the Mirror's sister tabloids. The New York Times last week quoted five former journalists at The People, a Sunday newspaper which is also published by Trinity Mirror PLC, as saying that phone hacking was commonplace there from the late 1990s to early 2000. ---------------->clipped-------> So far Hipwell is the only journalist who has gone on the record with his claims. In an online message, Hipwell denied having an ax to grind, saying he's speaking out because he was " bored of the lies/dissembling/denials." In any case he's not alone in alleging other papers shared in the News of the World's dishonorable practices. "I believe it to be widespread," said Max Clifford, a celebrity publicist who got a hefty payout from the News of the World after his phone was hacked in an earlier scandal. Clifford, who gave Hipwell a job after he was fired from the Mirror, said the News of the World may have been the worst offender -- but it wasn't the only offender. "They weren't isolated. They weren't the only ones." Read more: www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/24/new-uk-tabloid-dragged-into-phone-hacking-scandal/#ixzz1T39PHR4j
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Post by dolphie on Jul 26, 2011 13:28:14 GMT -5
And the witch hunt continues - with the rats/roaches scurrying out of the dank, dark recesses: JULY 25, 2011. James Murdoch's Week Ahead News Corp. Executive Faces Multiple Challenges as He Seeks to Stabilize Status By DANA CIMILLUCA, PAUL SONNE and RUSSELL ADAMS Having faced a public grilling before a U.K. parliamentary committee last week, News Corp. Deputy Chief Operating Officer James Murdoch will confront a series of behind-the-scenes battles this week as he seeks to stabilize his status at the media giant. James Murdoch faces more tests after ex-company officials accused him of misleading a parliamentary panel. Mr. Murdoch faces pressure over his handling of the phone-hacking scandal at the company's News of the World U.K. tabloid, an epic saga that has thrown into question the company's future, as well as Mr. Murdoch's status as the potential successor to his father, 80-year-old News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch. Especially troublesome for James Murdoch was last week's public accusation by two former News of the World executives that he misled Parliament about when he learned that illegal reporting practices at the tabloid were more widespread. On Thursday, the board of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC will meet two weeks after the scandal prompted News Corp. to withdraw its bid for the 60.9% of the satellite-TV broadcaster it doesn't already own. The meeting is expected to provide the strongest signal yet of whether the BSkyB board will continue to support James Murdoch as the company's chairman. Meanwhile, even with the BSkyB bid dead, U.K. communications regulator Ofcom is still studying whether, after the hacking revelations, News Corp. remains "fit and proper" to hold a broadcasting license for BSkyB. ... go to site for more ... online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904772304576466363853321254.html
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Post by dolphie on Oct 17, 2011 12:42:26 GMT -5
Good article on Roger Ailes w3.newsmax.com/a/nov11/ailes/ailes.cfm?test=latestnews?test=facesNovember 2011 This Is the Most Powerful Man in News. Using his instincts about on-air talent and the assault on American values, ROGER AILES has set the new agenda for TV journalism. But he’s decidedly not the kind of media mogul described by his liberal critics.By Deroy Murdock The most powerful man in television news is gazing through time at a black-and-white photo taken half a century ago of a buff, lunch-pail-toting 19-year-old wearing a white T-shirt and disheveled trousers. “That’s me,” Roger Ailes tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “It’s the way I view myself. I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio. So when people look at me today and say, ‘Well, he is some rich guy who lives in Manhattan,’” Ailes points to the photo, eyes glinting, and says, “That’s who I am.” --------------------------- . . . A friend of Ailes tells Newsmax that Ailes is especially focused on charities and believes in giving 10 percent of his income to charity. Ailes is quiet about his works, but a little digging finds he backs a range of causes: =============== “I believe all of my experiences made me stronger, and hopefully a better person,” Ailes told the attendees that night. “ My father always said, ‘It’s not a matter of live and let live. It’s a matter of live and help live.’ I try to follow that as best as I can.” The image the Horatio Alger Association chose for the cover of its award program, naturally, was that iconic image of a 19-year-old Ailes standing in front of a basketball hoop mounted on a garage. He’s holding that lunch pail and looking for all the world like a Norman Rockwell subject: Americana from a simpler, bygone era, a time when young people dug ditches to build a great nation. For Ailes, that labor never ceased. And, after years of showing others how to be the message — likable, authentic, honest — Ailes finally may be taking center stage. “I’m fighting against all of those walls that are closing in on America,” he says. “That’s how I see myself. And even if I fail, or even if I lose, I will fight all those things to the bitter end.” ============ Amazing the left to right ratio on FNC has more lefties than righties. Great comments, great perspective. I bet you do not read the full article, JD.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 17, 2011 22:16:25 GMT -5
Yes, there is no doubt Ailes' is the most savvy media mind Murdoch's money can buy.
But I will sit by the side of this river as long as I can and wait for their bodies to drift by...
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Post by nikki on Oct 18, 2011 1:04:48 GMT -5
Yes, there is no doubt Ailes' is the most savvy media mind Murdoch's money can buy. But I will sit by the side of this river as long as I can and wait for their bodies to drift by... Is that supposed to be poetic, Dredd? Well, it is no surprise to me that you would be calling for the dead bodies of those whom you do not agree with.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 18, 2011 1:36:01 GMT -5
Yes, there is no doubt Ailes' is the most savvy media mind Murdoch's money can buy. But I will sit by the side of this river as long as I can and wait for their bodies to drift by... Is that supposed to be poetic, Dredd? Well, it is no surprise to me that you would be calling for the dead bodies of those whom you do not agree with. No, it's more like however great and powerful they are now, in the end they will be as dead as anyone else.
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Post by dolphie on Oct 21, 2011 22:26:08 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/21/news-corp-to-pay-32-million-to-schoolgirls-family/?test=latestnewsNews Corp. to Pay $3.2M to Schoolgirl's Family Published October 21, 2011 Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's company said Friday it has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by the tabloid News of the World. News International and the family of Milly Dowler confirmed the settlement in a joint statement. It said Murdoch also will donate $1.6 million to charities chosen by the Dowler family, including youth and cancer research groups. Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old News of the World in July after evidence emerged that its reporters had eavesdropped on the telephone voice mail messages of the 13-year-old who disappeared in 2002 and was later found murdered. That touched off a storm of public outrage that rocked Murdoch's media empire and ricocheted through Britain's political, police and media establishments. " Nothing that has been agreed will ever bring back Milly or undo the traumas of her disappearance and the horrendous murder trial earlier this year," the Dowlers said in the statement. " The only way that a fitting tribute could be agreed was to ensure that a very substantial donation to charity was made in Milly's memory. We hope that projects will be undertaken so that some good can come from this." Murdoch met with the Dowlers in July to personally apologize to the family, saying he was "appalled" to have discovered what happened. In the statement Friday, he said he hoped something positive can be done in memory of Milly. " The behavior that the News of the World exhibited towards the Dowlers was abhorrent and I hope this donation underscores my regret for the company's role in this awful event," he said. The revelation that reporters eavesdropped on Milly Dowler's voice mail messages while police were searching for her -- and mounting evidence that phone hacking was routine at the newspaper -- scandalized the British public. In a letter to lawmakers disclosed Thursday, Surrey Police Chief Constable Mark Rowley acknowledged that his force knew as far back as April 2002 that someone working for the News of the World had accessed Dowler's voice mail, giving false hope to the missing teen's family and potentially interfering with the investigation into her disappearance. The phone hacking scandal has forced the resignation of two of London's top police officers, ousted executives at Murdoch's News Corp. and claimed the job of Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor, Andy Coulson, an ex-News of the World editor. Murdoch's global News Corp. has expressed contrition, launched an internal inquiry and set aside 20 million pounds ($32 million) to compensate victims, who could number in their hundreds. Still, the News Corp. CEO is under pressure. On Friday, he will face shareholders with small stakes in his company for the first time since the phone-hacking scandal broke in July. British lawmaker Tom Watson, one of Murdoch's fiercest British critics, traveled to Los Angeles to attend the annual general meeting and has said he plans to use the event to reveal new details of what he claims are covert surveillance techniques by company employees. Read more: www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/21/news-corp-to-pay-32-million-to-schoolgirls-family/ I admire the man. To shut down an institution that had been existence for over 168yrs was a difficult decision, business wise. For him to shut it down, fire people, pay the family for the grievance caused AND to donate to charities that will bring goodness in the child's name is incredible. The news company did not kill/rape the child - the criminal did. Murdoch did not need to do what he did - however he was PERSONALLY offended by the actions of one of his companies. When one owns as much as Murdoch does - they are not in touch with the day to day activities. Heck, even with only a few hundred employees in one company it is difficult to keep track of things. For Murdoch to own responsibility and to try to effect some kind of good from a senseless brutality perpetrated against a child - is incredible. JD, you will never comprehend - so don't reply. Your dark heart is poisonous and I don't want to read it any more. So leave this thread alone. You have your hate thread. Me - I am touched by Murdoch's sensitivity, humility, humbleness and generosity.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 13, 2013 13:16:34 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/06/13/rupert-murdoch-files-for-divorce-from-wife-wendi-deng-murdoch/Media mogul Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from his wife Wendi, a company rep confirmed Thursday, after 14 years of a jet-setting May-December marriage. “The relationship between the husband and wife has broken down irretrievably for a period of more than six months,” reads the filing, according to the News Corp spokesman. Wendi Deng Murdoch, 44, cut a glamorous figure as the 82-year-old’s third wife. A former News Corp employee, she met the mogul at a company party in 1997; they wed two years later and have two teenage daughters together. Always a conspicuous presence, she became a downright towering one when the former volleyball player smacked down a protester who disrupted a London parliamentary hearing by slamming a foam pie in her husband’s face. This will be Murdoch’s third divorce." Yeah, this guy is a really great man. Who is he going to marry next, a 16-year-old?
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