Rupert Murdoch put his nepo babies to the ultimate test. After closing on the sale of Fox entertainment assets to Disney in spring 2019, the media titan—who’s worth an estimated $10.4 billion— asked his four oldest children to give him upward of $100 million from their respective payouts, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. The Fox sale netted $12 billion to be split among the children.
But only three of them obliged. Lachlan, Elisabeth, and Prudence each gave the patriarch the money as a “sign of respect for the fortune he had earned over the years,” according to the WSJ. But James, one of the younger sons who had regularly had beef with his father over differing political and business-related views, refused.
