Lachlan Murdoch
British-Australian-American businessman (born 1971)
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Key Takeaways
- Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born 8 September 1971) is a businessman and mass media heir.
- He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation.
- 21 billion, as published in the Financial Review Rich List .
- He was raised in New York City, where his father owned the New York Post , after moving there with his family at the age of three.
- In 1989 he took a gap year, during which he spent three months in Sydney, Australia, doing a menial job for the family business Daily Mirror , while his father was in the city for business.
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born 8 September 1971) is a businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation. In 2025, Murdoch's net worth was estimated at A$3.21 billion, as published in the Financial Review Rich List.
Early life and education
Murdoch was born on 8 September 1971 at Wimbledon Hospital in Wimbledon, London, the eldest son of Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and his second wife, Scottish journalist and author Anna Maria dePeyster (née Torv; formerly Murdoch). He was raised in New York City, where his father owned the New York Post, after moving there with his family at the age of three.
He received his primary and secondary education at the Aspen Country Day School in Aspen, Colorado; then Dalton School and Trinity School in Manhattan, New York City; and then at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
In 1989 he took a gap year, during which he spent three months in Sydney, Australia, doing a menial job for the family business Daily Mirror, while his father was in the city for business.
In 1994, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Princeton University. While at Princeton, he studied philosophy with Béatrice Longuenesse and Alan Hajek. His senior thesis was on German philosophy.
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