Elisabeth Murdoch is a British-American television and international media executive with a net worth of $1.375 billion. She started Shine Group, an international television production and distribution firm, in 2001.
Murdoch created Sister, a global production company, in 2019.
Who is Elisabeth Murdoch married to?
Elisabeth Murdoch‘s first marriage was to a fellow Vassar graduate, Elkin Kwesi Pianim, an associate in Rothschild’s New York corporate finance department. He is the son of Ghanaian economist and investor Kwame Pianim and Dutch-born Cornelia Pianim. The wedding took place on September 10, 1993, at St. Timothy Catholic Church, near the bride’s parents’ home in Beverly Hills. They have two children: Cornelia Pianim (born 1994 in New York) and Anna Pianim (born 1997 in London). They got divorced in 1998.
Murdoch’s second marriage was to public relations executive Matthew Freud, son of former MP Sir Clement Freud and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud. The pair married on August 18, 2001, in a ceremony at Blenheim Palace.
The couple has two children. Beginning in 2008, the family lived at Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, where they were key members of the Chipping Norton set. They also had a property in Notting Hill, London. The pair got divorced in 2014.
In 2017, Murdoch married Keith Tyson, an artist.
Meanwhile, Murdoch is a dual citizen of the US and the UK. She currently resides in the St. John’s Wood district of London.
Murdoch began her career as a manager of program acquisitions at her father’s cable television network, FX Networks. Later, she and her then-husband purchased NBC affiliate stations KSBW and KSBY in California with a $35 million loan from her father.
Murdoch moved to the United Kingdom and worked with her father at BSkyB, a British television and telecoms firm that was facing financial difficulties at the time. She worked as second-in-command to television executive Sam Chisholm, who was in charge of overseeing the company’s daily operations and growing its subscriber base. The approach worked, and by the time Chisholm left, BSkyB had become the most lucrative firm in the United Kingdom. Murdoch was then appointed as the new managing director.
During her tenure, she oversaw a successful £12 million sponsorship of London’s ailing Millennium Dome. She did, however, create controversy by brokering her father’s unsuccessful £623.4 million purchase for the champion Manchester United football team. Murdoch exited BSkyB in 2000.
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