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The public and private lives of Rupert Murdoch The media mogul’s influence spreads worldwide, from his beginnings in Australia through his successes in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Oct. 4, 1969
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch with 14-month-old daughter Elisabeth and second wife Anna Torv at their home in Sussex Gardens in London. Following the recent resignation and arrest of News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, reports suggest Elisabeth Murdoch has emerged as a front-runner for a seat on News Corp.'s board.
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Jan. 2, 1969
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch arrives at the Connaught Rooms with his second wife, Anna Torv, for a meeting of shareholders at the News of the World in London. The current phone hacking scandal surrounding News International has escalated with the resignation of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and the arrest of former News of the World Editor Rebekah Brooks.
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Jan. 2, 1969
News of the World Chairman William Carr, standing left, addresses shareholders at a meeting as rival publishers Robert Maxwell, standing center left, and Rupert Murdoch, bottom right, await a vote on their respective bids for the paper at the Connaught Rooms in London.
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March 23, 1977
Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the New York Post, and Louis Rubin, of the Troy News Co., receive Torch of Liberty Awards from the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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Sept. 12, 1978
New York Post publisher Rupert Murdoch, right, speaks with television talk show host Tom Snyder on NBC's "Tomorrow" show in New York. The same day, negotiators met in an effort to end a five-week newspaper strike that shut down the Post, the New York Times and the Daily News.
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May 16, 1978
Mayor Ed Koch, left, shakes hands with New York Magazine owner Rupert Murdoch, right, at a party marking the publication's 10th anniversary. In the center is New York Gov. Hugh Carey and third from right is New York Magazine publisher Joe Armstrong. Actor Parker Stevenson is at far right.
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Nov. 1, 1983
Rupert Murdoch confirms to newsmen his cash purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Jan. 24, 1984
Rupert Murdoch speaks to the Public Relations Society of American in New York. Murdoch countersued Warner Communications in response to a Warner suit aimed at blocking Murdoch from buying more of its shares.
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Nov. 21, 1988
Rupert Murdoch, right, chief executive of News International, and Michael D. Eisner, chairman and chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., shake hands at a news conference at Channel 5 television in New York. The two companies agreed to a joint venture that would provide Sky Movies, a new feature film and entertainment service, and the Disney Channel to the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Jan. 18, 1995
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures as she speaks with Rupert Murdoch, left, chairman of the News Corp., Thomas Murphy, chairman and CEO of Capital Cities/ABC Inc., and Howard Stringer, right, president of CBS Broadcast Group, at a reception before the 40th Annual United Cerebral Palsy Awards Dinner in New York.
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May 10, 1995
MCI Chairman Bert Roberts, left, looks on as News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch answers reporters' questions during a Washington news conference, in which they announced a $2 billion deal to provide electronic information, education and entertainment services to business and other consumers worldwide.
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Nov. 13, 1998
Rupert Murdoch, right, tosses a football from the podium during listing ceremonies for Fox Entertainment Group at the New York Stock Exchange. Looking on are Arthur Siskind, left, News Corp. senior executive vice president, and NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso.
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Oct. 21, 1999
Rupert Murdoch, left, introduces his wife, Wendi, to Queen Elizabeth II during a visit from Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the opening of "Gilded Dragons, Buried Treasure from China's Golden Age," an exhibition at the British Museum in London.
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Nov. 16, 2005
Murdoch and his mother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, attend the opening of a new newspaper office building, named after his father, Keith Murdoch, in Adelaide, Australia. Murdoch returned to Adelaide, where his News Corp. media empire was launched, to address local shareholders for the first time since he shifted the company's base to the United States.
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June 15, 2005
Murdoch, front left, sits next to his son and deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., Lachlan Murdoch, front right, during a service held by Reuters at St. Bride's Church on Fleet Street in London. For more than 300 years, Fleet Street was the heart of British journalism. The industry saluted the end of an era at a ceremony marking the departure of Reuters from its Fleet Street headquarters.
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March 22, 2005
News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, left, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meet in New Delhi.
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Jan. 11, 2006
Nicole Kidman and Rupert Murdoch pose for photographs before the Simon Wiesenthal Center annual tribute dinner in New York.
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Dec. 13, 2007
Rupert Murdoch addresses a crowded Wall Street Journal newsroom in New York. Murdoch's $5 billion-plus bid for Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, cleared its final hurdle as shareholders of the financial publishing company gave their approval. Also pictured are Les Hinton, left, who was named CEO of Dow Jones, and Robert Thompson, second left, the new publisher of Dow Jones & Co. and the Wall Street Journal.
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July 9, 2008
Rupert Murdoch arrives with his wife, Wendi, for the annual Allen & Co.'s media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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March 18, 2010
Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, and Rupert Murdoch attend the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, England. On July 5, 2011, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the alleged hacking of a murdered schoolgirl's voicemail by the News of the World, part of Murdoch's media empire, as the scandal closed in on Brooks, a top executive and Murdoch protegee.
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March 18, 2010
Rupert Murdoch stands behind his children James Murdoch and Elisabeth Murdoch overlooking the third day of horse racing at the Cheltenham Festival.
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May 16, 2011
Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi, arrive for the screening of "The Tree of Life" at the 64th international film festival in Cannes, France.
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