Lachlan, 48, is Rupert Murdoch's eldest son. From 2014 until 2019, he and James had been co-chairmen of 21st Century Fox, until the company was sold to Disney for $71.3 billion.
After the Disney deal closed, Lachlan was named chief executive of Fox Corporation, the arm of the Murdoch media empire that contains Fox News and Fox Sports, marking perhaps the final stage of the contest between the brothers to take over their father's empire. (He and James have leapfrogged each other multiple times.)
Lachlan had started out overseeing a chain of Australian newspapers at 22 years old, and by his late 20s, he had risen to to be the deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. Other executives "viewed him as entitled," according to The New York Times. He left the company in 2005 at the age of 33, interpreted at the time as a sign that James had taken the lead. But Lachlan was brought back into the fold by 2015.
Together, James and Lachlan ousted Roger Ailes, a Fox News cofounder, after claims of sexual harassment in 2016.
Lachlan has been married to Australian model Sarah O'Hare since 1999. They have three children.