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A message calling on US President Donald Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected onto the US Chamber of Commerce building, across from the White House in Washington, on July 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)
July 19, 2025, 6:44 am
Trump sues Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal for $10B over Epstein sex bombshell
Publisher of newspaper vows to ‘vigorously defend against any lawsuit’ as US president rages over report on ‘bawdy’ birthday letter to Epstein
By Sebastian Smith
This image provided by News Corp. shows Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova posing for a photo, June 1, 2024 during their wedding ceremony at his vineyard estate in Bel Air, California (News Corp. via AP)
June 3, 2024, 10:19 am
Rupert Murdoch marries Russian molecular biologist, his 5th wife
Elena Zhukova, 67, is the former mother-in-law of Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich
By AP and ToI Staff
Lachlan Murdoch, chief executive officer of Fox Corporation and co-chairman of News Corp, attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 11, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images North America/AFP)
January 29, 2024, 2:57 pm
Media tycoon Lachlan Murdoch heads to Israel for secret meeting with Netanyahu
Will also meet with Benny Gantz; PM has long-standing relations with Murdoch family, is said to have previously tried to persuade them to invest in Fox-news style channel in Israel
By Tal Schneider
Rupert Murdoch attends the WSJ. Magazine 2017 Innovator Awards at The Museum of Modern Art in New York on Nov. 1, 2017. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
September 21, 2023, 7:35 pm
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman
92-year-old media magnate, whose 24-hour news network converted the power and energy of political talk radio to television, hands reins to son Lachlan
By David Bauder
Rupert Murdoch at a dinner at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, May 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
August 17, 2023, 1:23 am
Murdoch said dating Roman Abramovich’s former mother-in-law
92-year-old media mogul currently cruising in the Mediterranean with Jewish molecular biologist Elena Zhukova
By ToI Staff
Rupert Murdoch at the Herman Kahn Award Gala, Oct. 30, 2019, in New York (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
February 28, 2023, 3:08 pm
Murdoch says some Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ false stolen US election claims
Media mogul’s deposition in defamation suit appears to show that he was aware network was spreading misinformation while anchors knew there was no evidence to support it
By Randall Chase
Ivanka Trump (right) and Jared Kushner (left) at a signing ceremony for 'phase one' of a US-China trade agreement, in the East Room of the White House, January 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 23, 2022, 7:43 pm
In his new book, Kushner says he once broke up with Ivanka because she wasn’t Jewish
Memoir recalls how Murdochs, Bono and Billy Joel helped rekindle romance between couple, and that Trump pressed Jared on why his daughter had to be the one to convert
By Michael Horovitz
Nir Hefetz at a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on November 29, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 29, 2021, 12:44 pm
Ex-Netanyahu aide cries in court recalling arrest, says testimony is ‘entire truth’
Nir Hefetz breaks down, forcing pause, as he describes decision to turn state witness under ‘monstrous pressure’; tells of Murdoch news channel pitch scripted by Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Abraham Foxman (photo credit: David Karp/JTA)
April 14, 2021, 5:54 pm
Former ADL chief Abe Foxman says he’d honor Fox’s Rupert Murdoch ‘again today’
Current leader of Anti-Defamation League has lashed news network and its owner for far-right views, but Foxman defends past award, says Fox is not anti-Semitic
By Ben Sales
US President Donald Trump speaks during a FOX News Channel Town Hall, co-moderated by FNC's chief political anchor Bret Baier of Special Report and The Story anchor Martha MacCallum, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
January 9, 2021, 8:03 am
Murdoch’s media empire calls time on Trump, but tries to keep his base onside
Right-wing outlets played key role in US president’s rise but are now distancing themselves while trying to stop followers from migrating to Newsmax, OANN
By Peter HUTCHISON
Public relations expert Howard Rubenstein attends the TIME 100 gala at the Time Warner Center, May 4, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
December 30, 2020, 7:27 pm
New York public relations impresario Howard Rubenstein dies at 88
Veteran press agent known for representation of Big Apple’s celebrities and power brokers, from Donald Trump to Jerry Seinfeld to the NY Yankees baseball team
By AP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a FOX News Channel Town Hall, co-moderated by FNC's chief political anchor Bret Baier of Special Report and The Story anchor Martha MacCallum, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
November 7, 2020, 2:22 pm
Murdoch’s Fox News, New York Post start to distance themselves from Trump
The TV outlet in particular is credited with helping bring Trump to power in 2016, but now seems to be in the process of dumping him as Biden closes in on the White House
By Thomas URBAIN
Rupert Murdoch, center, Chairman of Fox News Channel with US Donald Trump, left (with back to camera), Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy Turnbull, right, during dinner aboard the USS Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked in the Hudson River in New York on May 4, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
November 5, 2020, 6:14 pm
Trump reportedly screamed at Murdoch after Fox News called Arizona for Biden
Conservative TV network’s decision sucked air out of optimistic White House and was followed by president frantically calling Republican governors to inquire about voter fraud
By Jacob Magid
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (YouTube screen capture)
March 7, 2018, 11:43 pm
Netanyahus tried to push moguls to fund Israeli version of Fox News — report
Couple said to have tried to convince billionaires Arnon Milchen, James Packer and Rupert Murdoch to invest $25 million each in new right-wing news channel
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)
January 23, 2018, 4:42 am
Facebook admits social media threat to democracy
Company’s civic engagement chief says it was ‘far too slow’ to respond to spread of misinformation during 2016 US election
By Rob Lever
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