A Complete Guide to Rupert Murdoch’s Family: All About His Wives, Kids & More

Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova attend the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California.
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Within minutes, Dynasty: The Murdochs compares its subjects — media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his kids — to the characters of Succession. Like the HBO show, there were four kids in the running to inherit Murdoch’s global media empire, which includes Fox Corporation. Unlike the show, the 95-year-old patriarch hasn’t died, but according to the New York Times, the events of the show inspired his children to start discussing how they would handle Murdoch’s death. Another difference? Murdoch has already picked a successor.

While charting the Australian media tycoon’s rise over the past 70 years, during which he amassed a net worth of approximately $22 billion, the Netflix docuseries lays out Murdoch’s complicated relationships with his ex-wives and kids, all of whom declined to be interviewed.