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Rupert Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch

Entrepreneur · News Corporation · born March 11, 1931

$7.2Bolder estimate, as of May 2019 · Bloomberg

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About

Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American former business magnate, investor, and media mogul.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~48Became CEO of News Corporation1979
  2. ~49Founded News Corporation1980
  3. ~54Founded Fox Entertainment Group1985
  4. 55Founded Fox Broadcasting CompanyOctober 9, 1986
  5. 59Founded Sky GroupNovember 2, 1990
  6. ~62Founded Fox Networks Group1993
  7. 82Founded 21st Century FoxJune 28, 2013
  8. 82Founded News CorpJune 28, 2013
  9. ~88Founded Fox Corporation2019

Reported wealth

Each figure is a dated estimate from the publisher shown; wealth changes, and nothing here is live.

As ofEstimateSource
May 2019$7.2BBloomberg · current
2019$19.4BForbes

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1978 · France

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scientist

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German virologist and professor emeritus

1936–2023 · Germany

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