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Named for her philanthropist grandmother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, she is Rupert Murdoch's second daughter and the eldest of three children born of his second marriage in 1967 to former employee Anna Tõrv, a Roman Catholic born in Glasgow, Scotland of Estonian extraction. She attended exclusive schools in New York, at one of which, in true Murdoch tradition, she set up an on-campus television station as a student project. Her two younger brothers, Lachlan Murdoch (born in London, UK Sept 8, 1971), and James Murdoch, (born in Wimbledon, London, UK Dec 13, 1972), were groomed from a young age to eventually play key roles in their father's vast media empire, but Elisabeth was seldom referred to in this context. Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective. ... Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, opening a drug rehabilitation centre in Melbourne, May 2005 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born February 8, 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. ... Anna Murdoch is the former wife of Australian-born media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation) George Square and Glasgows City Chambers Glasgow is Scotlands largest city, located on the River Clyde in West Central Scotland. ... Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. ... James Murdoch (born December 1972) is the CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and younger son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. ... , This article is about the district of London. ...

In 2006, Elisabeth Murdoch was named Britain's "Most Powerful Blond" by Tatler Magazine - beating out Irina Abramovich and other notable figures.

Career

After graduating Vassar College, she became manager of program acquisitions at her father’s FX Networks, a cable television service based in Los Angeles. Operating as EP Communications, on September 22, 1994 Murdoch and her husband, Elkin Pianim, purchased a pair of NBC-affiliate television stations, KSBW and KSBY, in California on a $35 million loan secured by her father. Within 18 months, the couple re-organised and re-sold the stations at a $12 million profit. Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Founded as a womens college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become coeducational. ... FX (shorter for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... This article is about the television network. ... KSBW is a television station in the United States and is the NBC affiliate for the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA market, with studios in Salinas. ... KSBY Logo KSBY is the NBC affiliate for the central coast of California. ...

Elisabeth Murdoch thereby emerged as an unexpected rival to her brothers for eventual leadership of the Murdoch publishing dynasty. The siblings have risen and fallen in their father's entrepreneurial plans, being dispatched across the globe to acquire experience managing the various Murdoch corporate outposts, yet often moved from one assignment to another without apparent rhyme or reason. She and Pianim moved to England where Rupert Murdoch was running BSkyB after forcing a 1990 merger with BSB. The early years of BSkyB saw a haemorrhage of cash from Murdoch's News Corporation funds. To help turn around the financial fortunes of the company, the respected New Zealand television executive Sam Chisholm was brought on board to manage the day-to-day operations and build the subscriber base, with Murdoch as his second-in-command and de facto apprentice. By the time Chisholm left the company BSkyB was the most profitable company in the UK. British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. ... BSB logo British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) was a company set up in 1986 to provide direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: , LSE: NCRA) is an American media conglomerate company and the third worlds largest. ... If youre looking for the TV show, see The Apprentice. ...

As Managing Director, Murdoch oversaw BSkyB's £12 million sponsorship of the troubled Millennium Dome, to the relief of its Cabinet overseer, Peter Mandelson. But when she brokered her father’s £623.4 million bid for England's champion Manchester United team, the non-Murdoch media cried foul. It was up to Mandelson to decide whether to refer the proposed purchase to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission for investigation. He was openly accused of being too much in the political debt and too much under the personal sway of Elisabeth Murdoch to heed the public's evident desire to scrutinize the deal with an eye toward killing it. In the end, Mandelson did just that, however, and predictions that Elisabeth Murdoch's blonde beauty would distract him seemed ludicrous later that year when he was outed as homosexual by Matthew Parris. This article is about the Millennium Dome before its redevelopment and renaming to The O2 in 2005. ... This article is about the governmental body. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Manchester United Football Club are a world-famous English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and are one of the most popular sports clubs in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide. ... A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ... The Competition Commission (formerly the Monopolies and Mergers Commission) is an organisation that is financed by the government that investigates proposed monopolies or mergers and checks if they are in the public interest. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Out Out has several meanings: Out has many dictionary definitions, such as away from inside or away from the middle. ... Matthew Parris (born August 7, 1949 in Johannesburg) is a journalist and former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ...

After quarreling publicly with Chisholm, Elisabeth Murdoch veered out on her own as a television and film producer in London. She founded Shine Limited in March, 2001, with 80 percent ownership retained by herself, 15 percent by Lord Alli, and five percent by BSkyB. BSkyB signed a deal guaranteeing to buy an agreed amount of Shine programming for two years. Shine Limited is also a supplier of franchise television to broadcasters internationally, including the BBC, Channel 4, HBO and the RTL Group. Her firm has worked closely with Freud Communications on a number of media deals. Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born November 16, 1964) is a Muslim businessman and politician in the United Kingdom. ... i eat poop alot A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting, and trademarks of an original work of media (usually a work of fiction), such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... This article is about the British television station. ... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... RTL Group (LuxSE: RTL) is Europes largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. ... Freud Communications is a powerful public relations firm with offices in London and New York. ...

Lachlan Murdoch, formerly the deputy chief operating officer at the News Corporation and the publisher of the New York Post, was deemed Murdoch's heir presumptive before resigning from his executive posts at his father's company at the end of July 2005. That surprise departure left James Murdoch, chief executive of the satellite television service British Sky Broadcasting since November 2003, as the only Murdoch scion still directly involved with the company's operations, though Lachlan agreed to remain on the News Corporation's board. Still, Elisabeth Murdoch cannot be eliminated as a possible successor to choice portions of her father's enterprises.^[1] The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... An Heir Presumptive (capitalised) is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honor, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an Heir Apparent or of a new Heir Presumptive with a better claim to the throne. ... British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. ... This article is on the car division of Toyota. ...

Family

Her first marriage was to fellow Vassar graduate Elkin Kwesi Pianim, an associate in the corporate finance department of New York investment bank Rothschild Inc. He is the son of Netherlander Cornelia Pianim and Ghanaian economist/financier, A. Kwame Pianim. The lavish wedding on September 10, 1993 was held at St Timothy's Roman Catholic Church near the Beverly Hills residence of the bride's parents. A noted social event, Rupert Murdoch gave the bride away at the altar, and Pianim's African relatives were garbed in traditional Ghanaian robes. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see: Beverly Hills (disambiguation). ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ...

Murdoch and Pianim have two children, Cornelia (born 1994 in New York), and Anna (born 1997 in London). they divorced in 1998. She is now married to Matthew Freud, the son of former MP Sir Clement Freud, and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud, the millionaire head of Freud Communications, was considered a Wunderkind in the world of British public relations as shaped earlier in the twentieth century by his cousin Edward Bernays, and something of a bad boy by London society, which remembers his youthful arrest for possession of cocaine and marijuana. Murdoch and Freud have two children of their own, Charlotte Freud, born November 17, 2000 and samson murdoch freud, born january 13th, 2007. the couple wed on August 18, 2001 in a (no-press-allowed) ceremony at Blenheim Palace. They receive much media attention as one of the United Kingdom's best-connected 'power couples'. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Sir Clement Freud Sir Clement Raphael Freud (born April 24, 1924) is a British writer, broadcaster, and politician. ... Sigmund Freud (IPA: ), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ... Today psychoanalysis comprises several interlocking theories concerning the functioning of the mind. ... Wunderkind redirects here. ... // Dictionary. ... Cover of Bernays 1928 book, Propaganda. ... An enfant terrible, from the French meaning terrible child, is one whose startlingly unconventional behavior, work, or thought embarrasses or disturbs others. ... For other uses, see Elite (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Cocaine (disambiguation). ... A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ... Blenheim Palace is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. ...

Elisabeth Murdoch's parents, Anna and Rupert Murdoch, separated acrimoniously in 1998. Anna Murdoch received a settlement of some reported $1.7 billion in assets, to which her own three children were the primary heirs, in addition to whatever share each might eventually receive from Rupert Murdoch's estate. Seventeen days after the divorce, on June 25, 1999, Rupert Murdoch, then 70, married Wendi Deng, then 30, a newly appointed vice-president of Murdoch's STAR TV. Anna Murdoch was also remarried, in October 1999, to banker William Mann. Elisabeth Murdoch, while her own first marriage was dissolving, made jocular reference to familial divorce in a speech at the time. Wendi Murdoch (née Deng) (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí, originally 邓文革; pinyin: Dèng Wéngé) (born 1968) is a Chinese born American businesswoman, and wife of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. ... Star TV can refer to the following: Star TV (Ukraine): An electronic/club music channel in Ukraine Star TV (Turkey): A general entertainment channel in Turkey Star TV (Tanzania): A television station in Tanzania STAR TV (Asia): An Asian satellite service owned by News Corporation Startv (Canada): A Canadian weekly...

Rupert Murdoch has since had two children with Wendi: Grace (born in New York November 19, 2001) and Chloe (born in New York July 17, 2003). There is reported to be tension between Murdoch and his oldest children over the terms of a trust holding the family's 28.5 percent stake in News Corporation, estimated in 2005 to be worth about $6.1 billion. Under the trust, his children by Wendi Deng share in the proceeds of the stock but have no voting privileges or control of the stock. Voting rights in the stock are divided 50/50 between Murdoch on the one side and his children of his first two marriages. Murdoch's voting privileges are not transferable but will expire upon his death and the stock will then be controlled solely by his children from the prior marriages, although their half-siblings will continue to derive their share of income from it. It is Murdoch's stated desire to have his children by Deng given a measure of control over the stock proportional to their financial interest in it (which would mean, if Murdoch dies while at least one of the children is a minor, that Deng would exercise that control). However it does not appear that he has any strong legal grounds to contest the present arrangement, and both ex-wife Anna and their three children are said to be strongly resistant to any such change).

References

1. ^ "That old succession", The Age, 30-12-2003, <http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/29/1072546473966.html>

See also

• Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, (her grandmother)

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External links

• [1] Shine Limited official homepage.