News Corp shareholders thought Rupert Murdoch’s $675 million acquisition of daughter Elisabeth’s indie production company Shine Group back in April was enough of a sweetheart deal that they have filed lawsuits to challenge it. But it wasn’t revealed how much Elisabeth made — $214 million — until News Corp made its annual SEC filing Monday. Most of the purchase went to Shine’s equity partners, the filing said. Elisabeth Murdoch was the majority shareholder in Shine, which she has grown by purchasing local production companies; she bought The Office producer Reveille in 2008. After the News Corp-Shine deal was announced, Rupert Murdoch said his daughter would join News Corp’s board of directors alongside he and sons James and Lachlan. But those plans were scrapped for the time being earlier this month as part of the fallout from the growing News of the World scandal in the UK and questions about the conglomerate’s corporate governance.


If this isn’t illegal, it’s highly unethical. Rupert Murdoch is a crook, pure and simple.
“Behind every great fortune there lies a crime”…. BALZAC
In the Murdoch families case, the crimes are not just financial, ethical or legal -they’re against humanity itself. Unfortunately they’re not alone!
She deserves every penny.
Don’t blame her entirely. Her sentient, evil eyebrows tell her what to do; she cannot really do much else but obey orders.
Plus, she needs to keep up that yacht if she wants Ben Silverman to continue to hang around.
Just do the numbers on her business and you will see there is NO way a format company is worth this amount. Shareholders got screwed.