media Mel Rupert Murdoch's children are vying for control of two powerful US news outlets Fox News and the Wall Street Journal in a succession dispute that began this month in a Nevada courtroom Prudence Elizabeth and James are fighting back in Rena's probate court against 93y old Murdoch's efforts to alter an IR rical Family Trust in favor of lackan the Elder son instead of Distributing power among the four as the trust had stipulated lackan will control Fox Corp and News Corp if Murdoch gets his way reports quoting sources close to the matter said that ruper had claim that his six children who are the trust beneficiaries will benefit from the legal Amendment he claims lackan is a stronger custodian of the conservative popular media sites because of his political leanings listen to what the estate planning attorney Aliso has to say about this case I was very surprised to see that it's going on in Reno and wondered if someone had some very interesting foresight when they drafted his estate planning or this trust that they're dealing with or it has the flexibility built into it that they could have quite honestly shopped jurisdictions and found a jurisdiction that would accommodate amending or uh decanting a irrevocable trust however a loop capital markets analyst named Alan gold claims that at the time they outperformed several of their more conventional television business competitors such as Paramount Global Warner Brothers Discovery and Walt Disney with an 18% rise gold referring to laan's business Acumen said giving his hand was a traditional Media company that he started with we think he's done a good job journalists are not allowed in the courtroom and all relevant documents are sealed at Rupert's request the court website states that 5 days of hearings will start on September 16th the proceedings will be presided over by District Court probate commissioner Edmund Gorman when ruper officially left the boards of both firms last year lackan was obviously meant to take over in addition to his roles as chairman and CEO of Fox the 53-year-old was named chairman of newscore last year none of laan's siblings are employees of the companies as a result of the Disney acquisition 51-year-old James resigned as the CEO of Fox he quit after conflicts about journalistic content and business issues with the news Court board in 2020 James is now CEO of loop systems an investment firm he founded Elizabeth 56 established shine Group which was sold to Fox for $415 million in 2011 after leaving one TV studio she took over another TV studio called sister for the most part Prudence who is 66 years old has stayed out of the family company [Music]