Jonathan May-Bowles, the 26 year-old who hurled a pie plate of shaving cream in the face of Rupert Murdoch during parliamentary hearings on July 19 (and paid for it with a beating from Wendi Murdoch) has been charged with assault and causing harassment, according to the AP. He’ll be sentenced on August 2nd.
Rupert Murdoch was just attacked during the big News Corp hacking hearing in the British Parliament. Via Business Insider, this is objectively insane and awesome: Read More
Michael Wolff invited fifty people from News Corp to his book party last night celebrating his biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, at Milk Studios in West Chelsea, but none of them showed.
"None of them RSVP’d, none of them said yes or no," he said last night, while speaking Read More
Rupert Murdoch lost his wedding ring!
How? Well, he was under the influence, naturally.
According to Reuters report the media mogul was getting "sloshed" with other media and tech moguls at the Sun Valley Lodge. But! As everyone was exiting, Mr. Murdoch stayed behind in the lobby and told reporters that he Read More
Rupert and Wendi need your couch.
While Rupert Murdoch is completing renovations on his triplex at 834 Fifth, the media mogul has had to improvise, according to Forbes.com.
Most recently, Rupert, and his wife, Wendi Deng, were crashing at the Pierre. But the lease is up, and the couple are heading Read More
Last month Rupert Murdoch, chairman and C.E.O. of News Corp. and publisher of guilty-pleasure tabloid the New York Post, told London’s Guardian that newspapers were dead.
Classified advertising, he said, was in a terminal “slide”: “I don’t know anybody under 30 who has ever looked at a classified advertisement in a newspaper,” he said.
Mr. Read More
Poor Rupert Murdoch. The recent surge in articles about the big housing boom party being over must have gotten to him.
It should be assumed that a billionaire media mogul would not have to shill his $28 million loft on the cover of the New York Times House & Home section. Read More
