Rupert Murdoch is in a “secret” battle to wrest control of his vast media empire from three of his politically moderate children, and grant it to his eldest son, Lachlan, who will preserve its conservative bent, according to the New York Times.
Murdoch went to court late last year in a bid to increase Lachlan’s voting power in the Murdoch Family Trust—which is thought to hold the family’s $19.5 billion in assets—at the expense of his three other children, James, Elisabeth, and Prudence, who are uncomfortable with the media empire’s rightward shift, the Times reported.
