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00:00Arriving at a courthouse in Reno, Nevada, was a divided family.
00:06Among them was 93-year-old media titan Rupert Murdoch and behind him, his eldest son Lachlan
00:12Murdoch.
00:13Elizabeth, James and Prudence, three other Murdoch children, were also at the court on
00:18Monday as a battle began over who will control their father's media empire following his
00:23death.
00:25His two companies are Fox, which broadcasts Fox News, and News Corporation, which owns
00:30newspapers including Wall Street Journal in the US and The Sun in the UK.
00:35Murdoch is trying to alter the terms of his family trust, which was initially set up to
00:39hand over equal control of his businesses to his four eldest children.
00:43Now, according to the New York Times, he's attempting to ensure that Lachlan will remain
00:48in charge of his media companies.
00:51Lachlan, deemed to be ideologically akin to his conservative father, currently runs Fox
00:56and is the only chair of News Corporation.
01:00His siblings are less politically aligned with their father.
01:03James, who has endorsed Kamala Harris for president and donated to progressive political
01:08groups, stepped down from the News Corp board in 2020.
01:12He said the move was due to disagreements over editorial content.
01:16The proceedings are closed to the public and are expected to take place over the next week
01:20with testimony from the media mogul and the four children named in the trust.