Rupert Murdoch’s Children: A Story of Success and Complex Relationships
9 september 2025 в 16:13
Rupert Murdoch is known for his career as a media mogul. But he is also a family man and successfully raised seven children to adulthood. Rupert and his first wife, model Patricia Booker, married in 1956, had their only child Prudence in 1958, and later divorced in 1967. In the same year, the newspaper magnate married journalist Anna Mann (Torv), and they had three children together between the late 60s and early 70s — Elizabeth, Lachlan, and James.
After divorcing Anna in 1999, he married Wendy Deng, with whom he had two younger children in the early 2000s, Grace and Chloe. Wendy and Murdoch were divorced by 2013. In 2016, he married model (and former wife of Mick Jagger) Jerry Hall for the fourth time. They had no children, and on June 22, 2022, the couple announced their split. Here is everything you need to know about Rupert’s children from his first three marriages.
Prudence «Prue» Murdoch MacLeod was born in 1958 in Adelaide, South Australia, to Patricia, a former model and stewardess, and Rupert. The billionaire’s eldest child was married twice — to Crispin Odey, for only one year, and to Alasdair MacLeod, whom she married in 1989. She has three children with her second husband — James, Angus, and Clementine, all from Sydney.
She followed in her father’s footsteps and, according to her Wikipedia page, held positions as a director at Rupert’s News Corporation and is currently a board member of Times Newspapers, Ltd. She also worked as a journalist and tabloid investigator for News of the World.
Reports say Prudence never aspired to her father’s vast empire. «I've always been modest and not many know about me… I just love it», - she once told The Guardian. Together with Alasdair, they launched Macdoch Ventures. The company uses the family’s vast wealth to, as described on their official website, «support late-stage startup founders in Australia and New Zealand».
Elizabeth is Rupert’s only daughter from his marriage to Anna and the eldest of the three born from his second marriage. Born on August 22, 1968, in Sydney, she was named after her paternal grandmother, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. She attended Brearley School in New York and earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College. She has been married three times — first to Elkin Kwesi Pianim from 1993 to 1998. The couple had two children, Cornelia Pianim (born 1994) and Anna Pianim, born in 1997, before their divorce in 1998.
She married Matthew Freud, a public relations executive and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, in 2001 and also had two children with him, although little is publicly known about them. They divorced in 2014, and she married artist Keith Tyson in 2017. Once considered a favorite to inherit her father’s empire, Elizabeth founded the production company Shine Group in 2001. She later became wealthy by selling it back to Rupert’s News Corp in 2011.
Born on September 8, 1971, in London, England, Lachlan Keith Murdoch is Rupert’s first son with Anna and the younger brother of Elizabeth. His Scottish journalist mother and billionaire father raised him in New York, where his father owned and operated the New York Post. James attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton in 1994.
The British media heir is now the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, co-chairman of his father’s News Corp, and CEO of Fox Corporation. He also founded an Australian investment company. Lachlan’s long-term marriage to actress Sarah O’Hare began in 1999. The couple has three children. Sons Kalan Alexander and Aidan Patrick were born in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Their daughter, Aerin Elizabeth, named after a female family name, was born in 2010. Lachlan and his wife own multimillion-dollar estates in New South Wales, Aspen, Colorado, and Los Angeles.
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch was born just a year after his older brother Lachlan
After divorcing Anna in 1999, he married Wendy Deng, with whom he had two younger children in the early 2000s, Grace and Chloe. Wendy and Murdoch were divorced by 2013. In 2016, he married model (and former wife of Mick Jagger) Jerry Hall for the fourth time. They had no children, and on June 22, 2022, the couple announced their split. Here is everything you need to know about Rupert’s children from his first three marriages.
Prudence «Prue» Murdoch MacLeod was born in 1958 in Adelaide, South Australia, to Patricia, a former model and stewardess, and Rupert. The billionaire’s eldest child was married twice — to Crispin Odey, for only one year, and to Alasdair MacLeod, whom she married in 1989. She has three children with her second husband — James, Angus, and Clementine, all from Sydney.
She followed in her father’s footsteps and, according to her Wikipedia page, held positions as a director at Rupert’s News Corporation and is currently a board member of Times Newspapers, Ltd. She also worked as a journalist and tabloid investigator for News of the World.
Reports say Prudence never aspired to her father’s vast empire. «I've always been modest and not many know about me… I just love it», - she once told The Guardian. Together with Alasdair, they launched Macdoch Ventures. The company uses the family’s vast wealth to, as described on their official website, «support late-stage startup founders in Australia and New Zealand».
Elizabeth is Rupert’s only daughter from his marriage to Anna and the eldest of the three born from his second marriage. Born on August 22, 1968, in Sydney, she was named after her paternal grandmother, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. She attended Brearley School in New York and earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College. She has been married three times — first to Elkin Kwesi Pianim from 1993 to 1998. The couple had two children, Cornelia Pianim (born 1994) and Anna Pianim, born in 1997, before their divorce in 1998.
She married Matthew Freud, a public relations executive and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, in 2001 and also had two children with him, although little is publicly known about them. They divorced in 2014, and she married artist Keith Tyson in 2017. Once considered a favorite to inherit her father’s empire, Elizabeth founded the production company Shine Group in 2001. She later became wealthy by selling it back to Rupert’s News Corp in 2011.
Born on September 8, 1971, in London, England, Lachlan Keith Murdoch is Rupert’s first son with Anna and the younger brother of Elizabeth. His Scottish journalist mother and billionaire father raised him in New York, where his father owned and operated the New York Post. James attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton in 1994.
The British media heir is now the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, co-chairman of his father’s News Corp, and CEO of Fox Corporation. He also founded an Australian investment company. Lachlan’s long-term marriage to actress Sarah O’Hare began in 1999. The couple has three children. Sons Kalan Alexander and Aidan Patrick were born in 2004 and 2006, respectively. Their daughter, Aerin Elizabeth, named after a female family name, was born in 2010. Lachlan and his wife own multimillion-dollar estates in New South Wales, Aspen, Colorado, and Los Angeles.
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch was born just a year after his older brother Lachlan
© Puhova Marina
