Lachlan Murdoch
British-Australian businessman
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| 2025 | Murdoch is involved in a family trust court case with his siblings James, Elisabeth, and Prudence, challenging their father Rupert Murdoch's bid to ensure Lachlan's control of News Corp and Fox Corp. |
| 2025 | Murdoch's net wealth estimated to be multiple billions, as published in the Financial Review Rich List. |
| September 2024 | ABC Television (Australia) aired a three-part documentary about Lachlan Murdoch called 'Making Lachlan Murdoch' as part of their Australian Story program, featuring a 2001 interview with him and interviews with James Packer. |
| September 2024 | Lachlan Murdoch and his siblings are involved in a court case in Reno, Nevada, challenging their father Rupert Murdoch's attempt to amend the family trust and ensure Lachlan's control of News Corp and Fox Corp. |
| July 2024 | Smartmatic subpoenaed four Fox Corporation board members in ongoing lawsuit against Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News. |
| June 2024 | Lachlan's siblings James, Elisabeth, and Prudence become estranged from their father Rupert Murdoch and do not attend his wedding to Elena Zhukova. |
| 2023 | Ranked 33rd on The Australian Financial Review's list of Australia's wealthiest people, with an estimated wealth of approximately 2.1 billion US dollars. |
| December 2023 | Rupert Murdoch reveals his trust amendment plans to his children. |
| October 2023 | Rupert Murdoch initiates 'Project Harmony', attempting to change the family trust to potentially secure Lachlan's control of the family businesses. |
| September 2023 | Lachlan Murdoch succeeded his father Rupert Murdoch as leader of the family's media group, becoming chair of both Fox Corp and News Corp at the age of 52 following Rupert's retirement. |
| April 2023 | Fox News paid $787.5 million in damages in the Dominion lawsuit. |
| April 24 2023 | Tucker Carlson was dismissed from Fox News following the Dominion lawsuit resolution. |
| April 21 2023 | Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers filed a notice to discontinue the lawsuit against Crikey, resulting in Murdoch having to pay significant legal fees to Private Media after abandoning the case. |
| February 2023 | Lachlan and his wife Sarah Murdoch donated A$1 million to Qtopia, a queer museum in Sydney. |
| 2022 | Lachlan Murdoch was listed with a net worth of $4.00 billion in the Financial Review Rich List and Forbes Australia's 50 Richest ranking. |
| 2022 | Attempted to merge News Corp and Fox Corp with his father, but the proposal was opposed by his brother James and major shareholders. |
| June 29 2022 | Crikey's political editor Bernard Keane published an article linking the Murdochs to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, prompting Lachlan Murdoch to send a series of legal threats to the Australian electronic magazine. |
| June 6 2022 | Fox News Corp requested Judge Eric M. Davis to drop the Dominion lawsuit, which was denied due to evidence of actual malice by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch. |
| March 2022 | Justice David Cohen allowed the removal of several hosts as co-defendants but rejected Fox's motion to dismiss the Smartmatic lawsuit, allowing the case to proceed to the discovery phase. |
| 2021 | Wife and children moved to Sydney, with Lachlan splitting time between Sydney, Los Angeles, and New York City. |
| December 16 2021 | Court rejected Fox News Corporation's request to dismiss the Dominion lawsuit, determining that Dominion adequately pleaded actual malice. |
| February 4 2021 | Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Lachlan Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch, alleging Fox News engaged in a conspiracy to spread disinformation about the voting machine company. |
| 2019 | Purchased the Chartwell Estate in Los Angeles for an estimated $150 million. |
| 2019 | Met with former US President Donald Trump. |
| March 2019 | After 21st Century Fox was acquired by Disney, Murdoch was named chairman and CEO of the Fox Corporation, and designated as heir to his father's business interests. |
| 2017 | Purchased a large equestrian property in Aspen, Colorado with a six-bedroom home for $29 million. |
| June 2015 | Named as executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. |
| March 2014 | Murdoch stepped down as chairman and director of Ten Network Holdings. |
| March 2014 | Lachlan Murdoch was appointed as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp and 21st Century Fox, marking a significant step in the media empire's succession planning following the phone hacking scandal and his father's divorce. |
| 2011 | Purchased an adjoining property to 'Le Manoir' in Bellevue Hill. |
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