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'''Prudence''' "'''Prue'''" '''Murdoch MacLeod''' (formerly '''Odey'''; born 12 August 1958) is an Australian-British [[non-executive director]] in the media industry. Murdoch is the eldest child and daughter of Australian billionaire media proprietor [[Rupert Murdoch]]. She has held several directorial roles in her father's [[News Corporation]], and is currently a board member of [[Times Newspapers Ltd]], a subsidiary of News Corporation.
'''Prudence''' "'''Prue'''" '''Murdoch MacLeod''' (formerly '''Odey'''; born August 1958) is an Australian-British [[non-executive director]] in the media industry. Murdoch is the eldest child and daughter of Australian billionaire media proprietor [[Rupert Murdoch]]. She has held several directorial roles in her father's [[News Corporation]], and is currently a board member of [[Times Newspapers Ltd]], a subsidiary of News Corporation.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Prudence Murdoch was born in 12 August 1958 in [[Adelaide, South Australia]]. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Chenoweth |first=Neil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxwmNL3cOp4C&dq=Prudence+Murdoch&pg=PT5 |title=Rupert Murdoch |date=2002-11-12 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-1-4000-4688-1 |language=en}}</ref>She is the eldest child and first daughter of Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and his first wife, Australian model Patricia Booker.<ref name="vanityfair"/>
Prudence Murdoch was born in August 1958 in [[Adelaide, South Australia]].<!---per [[WP:DOB]]---><ref name=clark2023>{{cite web | last=Clark | first=Meredith | title=Who’s who in the Murdoch family | website=The Independent | date=22 September 2023 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/rupert-murdoch-wife-sons-children-lachlan-b2416470.html | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> She is the eldest child and first daughter of Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and his first wife, Australian model Patricia Booker.<ref name=wolff2008>{{cite news |author=Wolff, Michael|author-link=Michael Wolff (journalist) |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/12/murdoch200812 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |title=The Secrets of His Succession |date=31 October 2008 |accessdate=12 September 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913051930/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/12/murdoch200812| archive-date=13 Sep 2024 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>


Prue was raised in Adelaide until 1968, one year after her parents' [[divorce]], when she moved to London with her father and stepmother [[Anna Murdoch Mann|Anna Torv]] after his purchase of the [[tabloid journalism|tabloid]] newspaper publishing company, ''[[News of the World]]''. She received her secondary education at a state school in London, and at the [[Dalton School]] in [[Manhattan]] after her family relocated to New York City. Subsequently, she returned to London and worked briefly as a [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid]] researcher and [[journalist]] for ''News of the World''.<ref name="vanityfair"/>
Prue was raised in Adelaide until 1968, one year after her parents' [[divorce]], when she moved to London with her father and stepmother [[Anna Murdoch Mann|Anna Torv]] after his purchase of the [[tabloid journalism|tabloid]] newspaper publishing company, ''[[News of the World]]''.<ref name=wolff2008/> After the divorce, Patricia Booker married a Swiss national and began to lead a life of partying, often neglecting her daughter as a child. Prudence then also had a poor relationship with her stepmother.<ref name=wolff2008/><ref name="theguardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/29/rupert-murdoch-elisabeth-james |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=United Kingdom |title=Rupert Murdoch by the people who know him best - his children |date=29 November 2008 |accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>

She began her secondary education at a state school in London, but did not last a term there. After her family relocated to New York City in 1974, she attended [[Dalton School]] in [[Manhattan]], where she did not fit in among "the New York rich kids".<ref name=wolff2008/>

==Career==
Murdoch returned to London and worked briefly as a [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid]] researcher and [[journalist]] for ''News of the World''.<ref name=wolff2008/>

In 2019 she co-founded, with her husband Alasdair MacLeod, the Macdoch Foundation, a philanthropic organisation aiming "to build the resilience of people and the planet".<ref name=macdoch>{{cite web | title=About the Macdoch Foundation | website=Macdoch Foundation | date=2 November 2023 | url=https://macdochfoundation.org/about-us/ | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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In 1985, Prudence Murdoch married [[Crispin Odey]], an English financier who would go on to become the highest-earning [[hedge fund]] manager in London. The pair were married only briefly, separating within 15 months.<ref name=clark2023/><ref name=wolff2008/>
Prue is described, in relation to her inheritance, as "the only one of [Rupert Murdoch's] children not directly competing for his business affections".<ref name="vanityfair"/> After her parents' divorce, Prue's mother married a Swiss national and began to lead a life of partying, often neglecting the young Prue. In addition to a poor relationship with her own mother, Prue also had a poor relationship with her then stepmother, [[Anna Murdoch Mann|Anna Torv]].<ref name="vanityfair"/><ref name="theguardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/29/rupert-murdoch-elisabeth-james |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=United Kingdom |title=Rupert Murdoch by the people who know him best - his children |date=29 November 2008 |accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>

In 1989, she married Alasdair MacLeod,<ref name=clark2023/><ref name=wolff2008/> a Scottish businessman who had moved to [[Sydney]] aged 23 to work for [[Citibank]] and met his wife there.<ref name=agarwal/> MacLeod began working for his father-in-law that same year, despite his wife's disapproval of him working in the family business.<ref name=clark2023/><ref name=wolff2008/> MacLeod worked for [[News Corp]] for 20 years, both in Australia ([[News Ltd]]) and elsewhere, but left his position as managing editor of Nationwide News in 2010 as part of an organisational restructure.<ref name=smh2010>{{cite web | title=Murdoch's son-in-law exits News in paper shuffle | website=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=12 January 2010 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/murdochs-soninlaw-exits-news-in-paper-shuffle-20100112-m3u5.html | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> He had in 2000 taken on management of his wife's family farm in Australia, and developed an interest in [[regenerative agriculture]].<ref name=rpc/> After leaving News Ltd, he became executive chairman of MacDoch,<ref name=agarwal/> a private investment group with offices in Sydney and London,<ref>{{cite web | title=ALASDAIR MACLEOD | website=Wilmot Cattle Company | date=12 September 2024 | url=https://www.wilmotcattleco.com.au/alasdair-macleod/ | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> major Australian farming and [[agricultural technology]] investments.<ref name=rpc>{{cite web | title=RPC lunch: Alasdair MacLeod’s journey from newsroom to ag carbon boom | website=Beef Central | date=5 July 2023 | url=https://www.beefcentral.com/news/rpc-lunch-alasdair-macleods-journey-from-newsroom-to-ag-carbon-boom/ | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> He is also interested in the role of different types of capital in driving climate solutions.<ref name=agarwal>{{cite web | title=The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal: #166 Alasdair MacLeod | website=DeepCast | date=5 April 2024 | url=https://deepcast.fm/episode/166-alasdair-macleod-boarding-school-childhood-newspaper-publisher-turned-soil-carbon-entrepreneur-working-with-rupert-murdoch-and-building-macdoch | access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref>

In 1997, she became very angry with her father after he had referred to his "three children", and had a row with him. He apologised, sending her flowers. In 1999 she gave an interview to ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', which was published under the headline "the forgotten daughter" on the day of her her half-brother Lachlan's wedding to [[Sarah O'Hare]], which caused tensions at the family gathering.<ref name=wolff2008/>

In 2019 the MacLeods founded the Macdoch Foundation, a philanthropic organisation aiming "to build the resilience of people and the planet", with Alasdair MacLeod as chair. It funds projects in both Australia and the US.<ref name=macdoch/>


The MacLeods have three children: James, Angus, and Clementine,<ref name=clark2023/> who are Rupert Murdoch's eldest grandchildren.<ref name=wolff2008/>
===Marriages and children===
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In 1985, Prue married [[Crispin Odey]], an English financier who would go on to become the highest-earning [[hedge fund]] manager in London. The pair were married only briefly,<ref name="vanityfair"/> separating and divorcing within 15 months of their marriage. They had no children.


According to Rupert Murdoch biographer [[Michael Wolff (journalist)|Michael Wolff]] in 1008, Prudence Murdoch was "the only one of his children not directly competing for his business affections", and "the child who is least afraid of him".<ref name=wolff2008/>
In 1989, Prue married Alasdair MacLeod, an Eton-educated businessman who began working for his father-in-law, despite his wife's disapproval of him working in the family business.<ref name="vanityfair"/> They have three children: James (born 1991), Angus (born 1993) and Clementine (born 1996).


=== Net worth ===
== Net worth ==
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==Further reading==
*{{Cite book |last=Chenoweth |first=Neil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxwmNL3cOp4C&dq=Prudence+Murdoch&pg=PT5 |title=Rupert Murdoch |date=2002-11-12 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-1-4000-4688-1 |language=en}}


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 23:50, 18 September 2024

Prudence MacLeod
BornAugust 1958 (age 66)
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
EducationDalton School
Occupations
Board member of
Spouses
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    (m. 1985; div. 1986)​
  • Alasdair MacLeod
    ​
    (m. 1989)​
Children3
Parents
FamilyMurdoch

Prudence "Prue" Murdoch MacLeod (formerly Odey; born August 1958) is an Australian-British non-executive director in the media industry. Murdoch is the eldest child and daughter of Australian billionaire media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. She has held several directorial roles in her father's News Corporation, and is currently a board member of Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corporation.

Early life and education

Prudence Murdoch was born in August 1958 in Adelaide, South Australia.[1] She is the eldest child and first daughter of Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and his first wife, Australian model Patricia Booker.[2]

Prue was raised in Adelaide until 1968, one year after her parents' divorce, when she moved to London with her father and stepmother Anna Torv after his purchase of the tabloid newspaper publishing company, News of the World.[2] After the divorce, Patricia Booker married a Swiss national and began to lead a life of partying, often neglecting her daughter as a child. Prudence then also had a poor relationship with her stepmother.[2][3]

She began her secondary education at a state school in London, but did not last a term there. After her family relocated to New York City in 1974, she attended Dalton School in Manhattan, where she did not fit in among "the New York rich kids".[2]

Career

Murdoch returned to London and worked briefly as a tabloid researcher and journalist for News of the World.[2]

In 2019 she co-founded, with her husband Alasdair MacLeod, the Macdoch Foundation, a philanthropic organisation aiming "to build the resilience of people and the planet".[4]

Personal life

In 1985, Prudence Murdoch married Crispin Odey, an English financier who would go on to become the highest-earning hedge fund manager in London. The pair were married only briefly, separating within 15 months.[1][2]

In 1989, she married Alasdair MacLeod,[1][2] a Scottish businessman who had moved to Sydney aged 23 to work for Citibank and met his wife there.[5] MacLeod began working for his father-in-law that same year, despite his wife's disapproval of him working in the family business.[1][2] MacLeod worked for News Corp for 20 years, both in Australia (News Ltd) and elsewhere, but left his position as managing editor of Nationwide News in 2010 as part of an organisational restructure.[6] He had in 2000 taken on management of his wife's family farm in Australia, and developed an interest in regenerative agriculture.[7] After leaving News Ltd, he became executive chairman of MacDoch,[5] a private investment group with offices in Sydney and London,[8] major Australian farming and agricultural technology investments.[7] He is also interested in the role of different types of capital in driving climate solutions.[5]

In 1997, she became very angry with her father after he had referred to his "three children", and had a row with him. He apologised, sending her flowers. In 1999 she gave an interview to The Sydney Morning Herald, which was published under the headline "the forgotten daughter" on the day of her her half-brother Lachlan's wedding to Sarah O'Hare, which caused tensions at the family gathering.[2]

In 2019 the MacLeods founded the Macdoch Foundation, a philanthropic organisation aiming "to build the resilience of people and the planet", with Alasdair MacLeod as chair. It funds projects in both Australia and the US.[4]

The MacLeods have three children: James, Angus, and Clementine,[1] who are Rupert Murdoch's eldest grandchildren.[2]

According to Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff in 1008, Prudence Murdoch was "the only one of his children not directly competing for his business affections", and "the child who is least afraid of him".[2]

Net worth

Year Financial Review
Rich List 		Forbes
Australia's 50 Richest
Rank Net worth (A$) Rank Net worth (US$)
2017[9] − not listed − not listed
2018[10] − not listed − not listed
2019[11][12] 22 Increase $3.10 billion Increase − not listed
2020[13] 66 Decrease $2.24 billion Decrease − not listed
2021[14] 32 Increase $2.80 billion Increase
2022 44 Decrease $2.60 billion Decrease
2023[15] 45 Decrease $2.57 billion Decrease
Legend
Icon Description
Steady Has not changed from the previous year
Increase Has increased from the previous year
Decrease Has decreased from the previous year

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Clark, Meredith (22 September 2023). "Who's who in the Murdoch family". The Independent. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wolff, Michael (31 October 2008). "The Secrets of His Succession". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Rupert Murdoch by the people who know him best - his children". The Guardian. United Kingdom. 29 November 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  4. ^ a b "About the Macdoch Foundation". Macdoch Foundation. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal: #166 Alasdair MacLeod". DeepCast. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Murdoch's son-in-law exits News in paper shuffle". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  7. ^ a b "RPC lunch: Alasdair MacLeod's journey from newsroom to ag carbon boom". Beef Central. 5 July 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  8. ^ "ALASDAIR MACLEOD". Wilmot Cattle Company. 12 September 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Australia's Richest 2017: Country's Wealthiest Continue Mining For Dollars". Forbes Asia. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  10. ^ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2018). "2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  11. ^ Bailey, Michael (30 May 2019). "Australia's 200 richest people revealed". The Australian Financial Review. Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  12. ^ "2019 Australia's 50 Richest". Forbes Asia. January 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  13. ^ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (30 October 2020). "The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed". The Australian Financial Review. Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  14. ^ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (27 May 2021). "The 200 richest people in Australia revealed". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  15. ^ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (26 May 2023). "The 200 richest people in Australia revealed". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 6 June 2023.

Further reading

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