内华达州法院公开的96页裁定书揭露了默多克家族长达三十年的继承权争夺战，其中涉及对家族媒体帝国控制权的激烈争议1。现年95岁的鲁珀特·默多克与儿子拉克兰·默多克推动的一项名为"项目家庭和谐"的计划，试图从其他家族成员手中巩固对新闻集团的控制权1。该计划起源于2023年中期，由拉克兰的前属下西奥班·麦肯娜主导推进1。
法院文件显示，这一计划基于一个"错误假设"，即认为詹姆斯·默多克在"制造麻烦"1。司法裁定将麦肯娜确定为该计划的"主要推手"1。为了获得詹姆斯、普鲁登斯和伊丽莎白·默多克放弃信托投票权的同意，拉克兰和鲁珀特·默多克最终支付了共计50亿美元1。这笔款项确保了新闻集团得以保留其编辑方向1。
法官埃德蒙·戈曼在裁定中评价鲁珀特·默多克是"最少被指导的"和"最可信的"证人之一1。新闻集团和福克斯集团曾于2013年分拆，并在2022年计划重组但随后搁浅1。
A 96-page court judgment released by a Nevada court has laid bare three decades of inheritance disputes within the Murdoch family, revealing details of a failed attempt by Lachlan Murdoch to seize control of the family's media empire from his siblings 1. Theobald McKenna, a former subordinate of Lachlan's, was identified as the primary architect of "Project Family Harmony," a scheme aimed at gaining control of News Corporation, though the effort ultimately proved unsuccessful 1.
The dispute was ultimately resolved when Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch, now 95 years old, paid their siblings James, Prudence, and Elizabeth Murdoch a combined 5 billion dollars in exchange for the relinquishment of their voting rights in the family trust, thereby preserving News Corporation's editorial direction under their leadership 1. The court judgment noted that "Project Family Harmony" was founded on "flawed assumptions" that James Murdoch was "making trouble," and the plan originated in mid-2023, initiated by McKenna and Lachlan Murdoch 1. Judge Edmund Gorman characterized Rupert Murdoch as among the "least directed" and "most credible" witnesses in the case 1. The ruling comes against the backdrop of News Corporation and Fox Corporation's 2013 split, with an attempted recombination in 2022 that was subsequently abandoned 1.
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